Regardless of if you just got your hands on a PS5 or you’ve had the console for a while, chances are you had a good idea which few games you wanted to start out with. After playing those to death, maybe you’re on the hunt for the next title that will suck you into an immersive world. We can confidently say that all of the video games on our best PS5 games list do this in their own way, be they action-adventure titles, racing sims, puzzles and everything in between. As always, in building a list like this, we looked for must-play games that offer meaningful improvements over their last-gen counterparts when played on a PlayStation 5 console, or are exclusive to the system. We'll be updating this periodically, so, if a video game's just been released and you don't see it, chances are that the reason for its absence is that we haven't played through it for the first time yet. Either that or we hate it.Read more: The best SSDs for PS5
Quick Overview
Stray
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Dead Space
$43 at Amazon$45 at Walmart$70 at HSNSee more options
Elden Ring
$50 at Amazon$50 at Best Buy$63 at NeweggSee more options
Gran Turismo 7
$43 at Amazon$70 at HSN$70 at Best BuySee more options
God of War Ragnarök
$69 at Walmart$74 at AmazonSee more options
The Last of Us
$46 at Walmart$55 at Amazon$70 at HSNSee more options
Rollerdrome
Overwatch 2
Astro’s Playroom
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Demon’s Souls
$50 at Amazon$70 at Best Buy$43 at NeweggSee more options
God of War
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
Deathloop
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
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Resident Evil Village
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Returnal
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Sekiro Shadows Die Twice
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Stray
Stray a perfectly contained adventure game that has you embodying a cat in a post-apocalyptic world humans have left behind. It has plenty of fresh ideas, each one pared down to its purest form. Plenty of actions in Stray exist simply because they make sense for a cat protagonist (and probably because they’re cute as hell). There’s a discrete button to meow, and the robots the cat shares its world with react with shock and frustration when you cut across their board game, throwing pieces to the floor. It’s possible to curl up and sleep basically any time, anywhere – even directly on top of a robot stranger. When the cat gets pets and cuddles from the robots, it purrs and the DualSense’s haptics fire up in response. The environmental puzzles take advantage of this cat-level perspective, inviting players to look at the world with different, light-reflective eyes.
As well as puzzle-solving, ledge-leaping and blob-dodging, Stray introduces a world of lighthearted dystopia, where robots don’t hate the humans that came before them. Instead, they attempt to cultivate plants that can survive in the dark, just because people would have liked that. Compared with most dystopian cyberpunk games, Stray is downright joyful and one of the best PlayStation 5 games you can get.
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Dead Space
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