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The Best PS4 Games
The PS4 is the console where Sony's studios settled on one thing and did it better than anyone: a long, authored, single-player game with a camera over the shoulder. Eight years of that produced a run of releases people still hand to a new owner first.
Because a PS5 plays almost all of it, and often faster, this list is not only for PS4 owners. Everything here is playable on current hardware, and several have PC versions now — which is said where it applies.
The big PS4 exclusives
The reason the console sold. All of them run on PS5, most are on PC now.
God of War (2018)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
The reboot that put the camera on Kratos's shoulder and never cut away — one unbroken shot for the whole game. The axe throw is the best-feeling attack of its generation.
Bloodborne (2015)
- PS4
FromSoftware at its fastest and most aggressive — no shields, health you win back by hitting something. Still PS4-only, which makes it the most genuinely exclusive game on this list.
The Last of Us Part II (2020)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
The most divisive big-budget game of its generation, and the best-animated. Whatever you make of the structure, the moment-to-moment stealth is a step past anything else here.
Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
An open world that replaced the map marker with the wind, and a duel system with real weight. The most beautiful game on the console, and it knows it.
Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
Swinging that finally felt like momentum rather than a grapple hook. The city is the game; the missions are the excuse to cross it.
Horizon Zero Dawn (2017)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
Robot dinosaurs, a bow, and the best use of weak points in an action game. The mystery underneath the setting is better than the setting.
Uncharted 4 (2016)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
The series' last outing as a lead, and the one that slowed down enough to let the characters talk. The Madagascar chase is the best set piece Naughty Dog has built.
Death Stranding (2019)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
- Xbox
A game about walking carefully while carrying too much, and far stranger and better than that makes it sound. The asynchronous ladders other players leave are the best idea in it.
Shadow of the Colossus (2018)
- PS4
- PS5
A full rebuild of the PS2 original with nothing added — sixteen bosses, an empty world, and no filler between them. Still unlike anything else.
Astro Bot Rescue Mission (2018)
- PS4 VR
The best game on PSVR by some margin, and the one that proved the studio behind Astro Bot knew exactly what it was doing years earlier.
Best PS4 RPGs
Long games, most of them Japanese, all of them still worth starting today.
Persona 5 Royal (2019)
- PS4
- PS5
- Switch
- Xbox
- PC
A hundred-hour RPG about a school year, split between dungeon crawling and deciding who to spend an evening with. The interface alone is worth seeing.
NieR: Automata (2017)
- PS4
- Switch
- Xbox
- PC
Action combat wrapped around a story that only works if you finish it more than once. The soundtrack is the best in any game of its decade.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (2019)
- PS4
- Xbox
- PC
Not a souls-like — a rhythm game about deflecting, where dodging is usually the wrong answer. The hardest thing FromSoftware has made, and the most precise.
Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
Midgar, stretched from six hours into forty, with combat that switches between real-time and a paused command menu. Better than that stretch should have been.
Valkyria Chronicles 4 (2018)
- PS4
- Switch
- Xbox
- PC
Turn-based tactics where each unit's turn is a real-time third-person move under fire. Nothing else plays like it, and the fourth is the most refined.
PS4 games that got buried
Released in the same years as the list above, and flattened by it.
Gravity Rush 2 (2017)
- PS4
Falling in a chosen direction as a movement system, in a city built vertically to suit it. Awkward in places and completely unlike anything else on the console.
Until Dawn (2015)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
A branching horror film where everybody can live and everybody can die, and it tracks which. The best group game on the console for people who do not play games.
Detroit: Become Human (2018)
- PS4
- PC
Quantic Dream's most legible branching story, with a flowchart after each scene that shows what you missed. The flowchart is why people replay it.
Days Gone (2019)
- PS4
- PS5
- PC
Rough for its first ten hours, then a genuinely tense survival game about a motorbike, fuel, and hordes that number in the hundreds.
Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)
- PS4
- Xbox
- PC
- Switch
A first-person shooter with a real script, which almost none of them have. The stealth is optional and the shotgun is not.
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Top 10 Must-Play PS4 Games
Every PlayStation 4 library has its essentials — the games that defined the system and that every fan should play at least once. These 10 titles are our hand-picked starting lineup for the PS4, ranked by cultural impact and replay value. Click any game to see modern alternatives across every platform.
PS4 Hidden Gems
Beyond the iconic blockbusters, the PlayStation 4 library is full of underrated experiences that flew under the mainstream radar. These 10 hidden gems are the PS4 games we'd hand a friend who's already played the obvious classics and wants something fresh. Each links to a similar-games page for modern alternatives.
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