Best PS5 & PS4 Games — Page 4
Expert-reviewed PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 215
Top rated on PlayStation
- 01God of War (2018)Santa Monica Studio's God of War is a reboot that re-evaluates its protagonist and its genre, delivering an emotionally…9.7Outstanding
- 02Persona 5 RoyalPersona 5 Royal refines an already exceptional JRPG to an unassailable standard, blending deep social simulation with s…9.7Outstanding
- 03UndertaleUndertale is a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, one that weaponizes player choice to deliver an unforgett…9.7Outstanding
Marvel's Midnight Suns
RPG gameFiraxis built a tactical combat system sharp enough to stand with the best in the genre — then wrapped it in a friendship-simulator that alternately d...Good7.4Carto
Adventure gameCarto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the more inventive puzzle ideas in recent memory—wrapped in a cozy, handsome pack...Good7.6Bear and Breakfast
Adventure gameA disarmingly clever management sim that hides a surprisingly tangled mystery beneath its impossibly cozy fur — but a genuinely fiddly interface and a...Mixed6.7Coral Island
Adventure gameCoral Island takes the Stardew Valley blueprint, drenches it in tropical sunlight, and adds a genuinely fresh underwater layer—but technical rough edg...Good7.3Haven
Adventure gameHaven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but sh...Mixed6.6Iris and the Giant
Card gameLouis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is emotionally honest and mechanically clever, but the iOS port is a broken promise — t...Good7.1Nobody Saves the World
Action gameDrinkbox Studios took the one mechanic every action RPG treats as a gimmick — shapeshifting — and made it the entire load-bearing wall. The result is ...Good7.3Blood West
Action gameBlood West is a weird-western immersive sim that trusts you to figure things out and punishes you when you don't — a confident, hostile, occasionally ...Good7.4
Ikenfell
RPG gameHappy Ray Games built a tactical RPG where every attack demands your thumbs, not your MP bar, wrapped in a warm, sharply written cast. The boss diffic...Good7.0Supraland
Action gameOne German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...Great8.2Vagrus - The Riven Realms
RPG gameA dense, well-written dark fantasy caravan sim that treats your attention as a resource it has every right to demand. It will bore anyone looking for ...Good7.3Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
Action gameA sequel that learns from its predecessor, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trades ...Great8.2Tiny Bookshop
RPG gameTiny Bookshop takes the most low-stakes premise imaginable—selling used paperbacks from a trailer—and turns it into a quietly compelling management ...Good7.6Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Action gameA debut studio walked into the RPG arena swinging at Persona, Final Fantasy, and Sekiro all at once—and mostly landed the punch. Clair Obscur: Exped...Great8.6Hades II
Action gameSupergiant took the best roguelike of the last decade and refused to simply photocopy it. Hades II is bigger, thornier, and more ambitious than its pr...Outstanding9.4Neon Abyss
Action gameNeon Abyss buries players in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and legibility gives up — spectacular, chaotic, and freque...Mixed6.7Chroma Squad
RPG gameA wildly inventive love letter to Saturday-morning Tokusatsu that welds studio-management sim to grid tactics — brilliant in concept, but held back by...Mixed6.9Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Adventure gameA landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights the player — the writing and voice work are among the best the...Mixed6.1Rune Factory 4 Special
RPG gameA remaster that wears its 3DS origins on its sleeve, and underneath the dated polygons is a densely interconnected action-RPG and life-sim that reward...Good7.7Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Adventure gameDragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. It remains one of the sharpest cyberpunk stories in the genre, hel...Great8.5Moonlighter
Action gameDigital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough craft and charm that its...Good7.2A Bird Story
Adventure gameA Bird Story is less a game than a short silent film you hold a controller for—beautifully made, but so thin on interactivity that it's hard to reco...Mixed6.1Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
RPG gameMimimi Games took the one thing every tactics player does in secret—reloading a save the instant a plan goes sideways—and built an entire game around ...Great8.7Knock on the Coffin Lid
Adventure gameA story-drunk roguelike that welds a genuine RPG loot system onto Slay the Spire's bones—ambitious, atmospheric, and occasionally buried under its own...Good7.1
