Best PS5 & PS4 Games
Expert-reviewed PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 117
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
Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation
Adventure gameA warm, funny summer sim whose time-loop hook and Shin-chan chaos can't fully cover a shallow activity list, an abrupt finale and a mobile subscriptio...Mixed6.7Virginia
Adventure gameVirginia borrows film editing more confidently than almost any game before it, but hands the player almost nothing to do and trusts its cuts more than...Mixed6.1Shape of the World
Casual gameHard to recommend for most people: Shape of the World is a gorgeous, pressure-free walk through a world that grows around you, but there is very littl...Mixed5.9Strange Antiquities
Adventure gameBad Viking's occult shopkeeping sequel turns the act of looking closely into the entire game, and it is richer and more demanding than Strange Horticu...Good7.4Loretta
Adventure gameA short, controlled noir thriller that uses its branching choices to implicate the player in a marriage's collapse. The puzzles can be obtuse and a si...Good7.0Tooth and Tail
Action gamePocketwatch Games cuts real-time strategy down to its essentials and gets a sharp, tense 10-minute war out of what's left. The design is sharp and oft...Good7.0The Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0Sky Force Reloaded
Action gameSky Force Reloaded is a gorgeous, content-dense vertical shooter with a well-built upgrade loop, held back by a star grind that gates progression in w...Good7.8
Hohokum
Adventure gameHohokum is a calm, bright playground with no pressure and nothing to lose — and almost no direction. For anyone who wants a reason to keep moving, the...Mixed6.3Circuit Superstars
Action gameCircuit Superstars looks like a coffee-table toy and is built to drive like a proper racing sim, and that gap is the whole point — a deep handling mod...Good7.1Moonglow Bay
Adventure gameMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...Mixed5.9Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Action gameBroken Rules built an entire game around one verb — swinging — and the verb works; almost everything around it is thinner. Gibbon's hour-long campaign...Mixed6.8Golf With Your Friends
Sports gameBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...Mixed6.7LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Kaze and the Wild Masks
Action gamePixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...Good7.1Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Unrailed!
Action gameUnrailed! takes the one-tool-per-job cruelty of Overcooked and welds it to a train that never stops. With three friends on a couch it's a sharp coop...Good7.3Moving Out
Action gameMoving Out has a great slapstick premise and the best Assist Mode in its genre, but a short campaign, a hollow solo mode, and no online play cap who...Mixed6.5Game Dev Story
Simulation gameGame Dev Story remains a tightly built business sim with a genuinely funny premise, and the core loop still holds up. But it has barely changed since ...Good7.4Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Nidhogg 2
Action gameMesshof built a sharper, deeper duel than the 2014 original — then dressed it in a fleshy hand-drawn grotesquerie that half its audience actively rese...Mixed6.5Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8
