No matter if it’s your first time or fifth, PS 5 games offers something new for every player to discover. Sony’s in-house studios have taken full advantage of its technical prowess to craft captivating narratives and characters you won’t soon forget.
Returnal from Housemarque brings their signature roguelike formula to console gaming, complete with punishing difficulty and ever-shifting levels for a permadeath challenge you won’t want to give up on!
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Ghost of Yotei
Ghost of Tsushima 2 is an epic samurai adventure set 300 years after Jin Sakai’s storyline. Boasting gorgeous landscapes and unexpected perils, it makes for a thrilling and breathtaking saga to follow. Don’t miss it!
Sucker Punch’s latest game boasts vast sightlines and an immersive night sky, complete with auroras and stars that glow, and vegetation that moves realistically in the wind. PS5 Pro helps add new mechanics and gameplay improvements as well.
John Dumbrow and Courtney Woods, writers on Anthem and Dragon Age: The Veilguard games which experienced identity politics backlash.
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
Like a Dragon: Pirate Edition features beloved miscreant Goro Majima as a pirate – unlike other entries in the franchise – providing an exciting swashbuckling experience. Despite this unconventional setting, however, the game manages to deliver an entertaining gaming experience.
Honolulu’s sunny streets provide much of the on-foot exploration, yet there are enough new distractions to keep things interesting. Fans of the series will appreciate returning minigames such as gambling, batting practice and karaoke that will provide memorable gaming moments.
Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is now available on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC for $59.99.
Little Nightmares III
Little Nightmares III marks a first in its franchise: co-op play! Additionally, this marks Supermassive Games’s first project without series creator Tarsier Studios; instead they took over development of this title from them (known for work such as The Dark Pictures Anthology and Until Dawn).
Little Nightmares 3 appears to continue the series’ signature environmental storytelling approach, featuring unsettling environments and menacing enemies that create an air of unease. Exploration will uncover more pieces of Little Nightmares 3’s complex lore; rewarding those who appreciate exploring.
Where Winds Meet
Where Winds Meet is an open world wuxia game focused on combat, adventure and martial arts. Inspired by popular wuxia cinematic releases like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and promising players the freedom to craft their own journey, Where Winds Meet allows players to experience all that the genre offers!
This game allows players to take control of a variety of Wuxia weapons and techniques such as Qinggong to help run up cliffs or across water quickly, or mimic animal behaviors like leaping like a toad or roaring like a lion.
Monster Hunter Wilds
No matter your level, Monster Hunter Wilds’ combat is on solid footing for both beginners and seasoned veterans alike. Not that it is necessarily easy, but rather that it feels more approachable than ever.
Jugging items and weapons while keeping an eye on health issues that your hunter faces feels intuitive than ever – a key aspect of what makes the game so compelling! Additionally, being able to focus strike specific parts of a monster opens up Wounds for you to exploit later on in battle.
Dynasty Warriors: Origins
Dynasty Warriors: Origins has left me with two very divergent reactions – on one hand I find myself longing for its past glory with massive rosters and mode variety, while at the same time being completely charmed by its reinvention.
Origins is unlike previous games in that you take control of an original character who struggles with amnesia, while switching between different Three Kingdoms lords. While the trope of wandering warrior suffering amnesia might seem cliched, it works here.
Combat remains incredible in this title; button-mashing battles that feel ever more powerful as your character level increases are an absolute blast to play through. Furthermore, with plenty of story rewinds and endgame content after one campaign route complete comes plenty of replay value!
Borderlands 4
Borderlands 4 looks set to bring something fresh to the looter-shooter genre. Although details remain scarce, its previewed maps reveal diverse environments and traversal mechanics while Gearbox teases characters with specific skillsets. Plus, procedural levels could boost its re-playability.
This game will include four brand-new Vault Hunters and Timekeeper as its protagonists, as well as returning beloved “never-ending shootouts”, with colorful loot being scattered all around you. 2K confirmed its release date at their State of Play event.
Forever Skies
This first-person post-apocalyptic survival game puts you behind an immense toxic dust cloud as you build and customize a high-tech airship as home, workshop, and laboratory while searching for remnants of civilization and strange anomalies on Earth.
Scavenging for essential supplies can be exhausting work, but Forever Skies also offers more involved activities like distilling rainwater into drinkable source water, hunting moths, and cleaning off corrosion from your ship surface. Combat-free gameplay provides a welcome respite from standard survival games.
Elden Ring Nightreign
Explore an expansive world full of poisonous swamps, spiraling mountains and foreboding castles with FromSoftware’s largest game ever, which earned multiple Game of the Year awards.
Elden Ring does have one significant drawback for me – the lore serves the gameplay, rather than vice versa. That was something of an issue for me as I prefer active storytelling over passive. Still, you could always look into its Wiki or other resources to find out more about its world and characters if needed. Overall though it’s incredibly enjoyable with difficult yet thrilling combat!
Elden Ring spin-off’s network test offered an intriguing blend of Souls combat and Fortnite-esque PvE boss rush gameplay, unlike battle royales where death can be permanent; rather, its near-death meter allows squadmates to hit and revive fallen team mates.
Other changes have also been implemented to speed up gameplay: Sites of Grace automatically heal you; levelling is now limited to predetermined numbers; characters have galloping sprint speeds; etc. All in all, FromSoftware’s experimental release looks promising with full release anticipated on May 30.
