Best PS5 & PS4 Games — Page 5
Expert-reviewed PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games, scored out of 10.
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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
Arcade Paradise
Adventure gameNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...Good7.3Shady Part of Me
Indie gameA clever light-and-shadow puzzle game with striking watercolor art and a mechanic worth learning. The puzzles thin out before the credits and the ther...Good7.1Salt and Sanctuary
Action gameA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...Great8.2Lethal League Blaze
Action gameTeam Reptile built a fighting game where nobody punches anybody, and its design produces more genuine panic per minute than almost anything else on th...Good7.8Titan Souls
Action gameAcid Nerve stripped the action game down to a single arrow and a single hit point, and what's left is a genuinely original boss-design experiment — on...Mixed6.2American Arcadia
Adventure gameOut of the Blue's two-hander is a narrative puzzle game where the structure is the argument — a 1970s dystopia told in TV cuts between the man being...Good7.4Hollowbody
Adventure gameOne person built a survival horror game with more atmosphere than most studio productions, then declined to take a single real risk with it. Hollowb...Good7.2TEVI
Action gameTEVI is one of the more mechanically ambitious metroidvanias in recent memory and one of the more exhausting — a sharp fusion of melee combo fighting ...Good7.7
Ironclad Tactics
Strategy gameZachtronics took the tactics genre's most sacred cow — the turn — and shot it, replacing move-by-move deliberation with simultaneous resolution that p...Mixed6.2Hob
Action gameHob's world-transformation mechanic — solving puzzles that physically rebuild the terrain underfoot — remains one of the most inventive ideas in level...Good7.3Cairn
Action gameCairn is a rare thing in games — a genuinely new verb. It replaces the climb button with four independent limbs and a body that will absolutely betray...Great8.2Alina of the Arena
Strategy gameBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...Good7.8Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Action gameWhite Rabbit's 2D Souls-like is a generous redemption arc — a free expansion that transformed a middling 2018 release into a sprawling, boss-heavy pac...Mixed6.9Lake
Adventure gameGamious built a genuinely adult narrative game about a woman deciding what her life is for, then wrapped it in a mail-delivery loop that runs far long...Mixed6.0Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip
Adventure gamesnekflat has built a confidently designed small open world — a dense, funny, endlessly climbable seaside town that rewards stray impulses. It ends soo...Good7.3Bahnsen Knights
Adventure gameLCB Game Studio's third Pixel Pulp is a strikingly written and beautifully illustrated cult thriller — a two-hour paperback pastiche with real confide...Good7.3Nightmare Reaper
Action gameNightmare Reaper takes the most cynical mechanic in modern gaming — randomized loot drops — and welds it onto a 1994-era shotgun rampage, then hides t...Good7.8ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5Heavenly Bodies
Action game2pt Interactive built an entire game around the radical idea that arms are hard to use, and made it one of the most tactile, funny, and quietly beauti...Good7.5The Swindle
Action gameThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...Mixed5.9Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Action gameThunder Lotus's hand-drawn Norse epic is one of the most beautiful indie games ever animated, and one of the thinnest to actually play. At $14.99, it'...Mixed6.1TowerFall Ascension
Action gameTowerFall Ascension is one of the sharpest local multiplayer designs of the indie era — lean, readable, and built so that every loss makes sense. Its ...Great8.3Detention
Adventure gameRed Candle Games turns Taiwan's White Terror into a quietly devastating horror game built on meaning rather than monsters. It's short, mechanically si...Great8.2
