Welcome to 2024, everyone! With our Game of the Year coverage just about wrapped up, we've put together this handy article in which we're going to recap all of 2023's winners. Indeed, it's time to put that last 12 months behind us and look ahead to what should be another exciting year for PlayStation fans.
Without further ado, here are our official top 10 games of 2023, as voted primarily by Push Square staff, but community votes are also taken into account:
- #10: Cocoon
- #9: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- #8: Dead Space
- #7: Lies of P
- #6: Street Fighter 6
- #5: Final Fantasy 16
- #4: Alan Wake 2
- #3: Resident Evil 4
- #2: Baldur's Gate 3
- #1: Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Alongside our top 10, we also dished out individual 'Best' awards:
- Best PS5, PS4 Open World Game of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 Story Game of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 Indie Game of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 Remake, Remaster, or Re-Release of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 RPG of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 Art Direction of 2023
- Best PSVR2 Game of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 DLC of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 Puzzle Game of 2023
- Best PS5, PS4 Developer of 2023
And of course, we always round things off with our community Game of the Year, as voted by all readers of the site:
We hope you enjoyed reading all of our Game of the Year coverage for 2023 — even if you didn't agree with the rankings! Thanks for following along, and let's hope that 2024's offerings are every bit as good, if not better.
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Only missing links to the individual contributors GOTY which imho are often the most interesting and sometimes remind me of games I might have missed more than the group ones which trend towards the popular. Thanks for all the discourse, it's been fun.
It’s gonna be so interesting seeing what’s gonna be the reader’s GOTY next year. There’s not really a major high profile traditional 3rd person action adventure game on the level of previous years. Doesn’t mean next years bad for games tho.
I've only played half this list, beaten 2 and enjoyed 1.
Definitely not avatar Jake sully is the dude I expected to play as another corker of the brain virus can't discover anything that exists 🤣 who writes this oh my I'm Gona have some laughs at this game 🤣
@Deoxyr1bose We don’t know if there’s a third person action adventure game or not yet. I mean, we essentially know the release schedule through April with some odds and ends. From May-December, the release schedule looks like Wukong… and that’s it. Hopefully Rebirth is that big title that unifies the gaming media and carries the year early on though. And hopefully 2024 shows a surprise first party title or two from Sony.
I agree with @themightyant. We need the individual staffer lists linked here. It was a really diverse set this year and I honestly looked more forward to those lists than the countdown this year.
I’ve got to say it too: as much as I don’t agree with Spider-Man 2 winning and I wouldn’t even put it in my own top 10, I’m actually glad it beat out Baldur’s Gate, even if I like Baldur’s Gate more as a game. I’m just really tired of seeing Baldur’s Gate win everything when I just sort of think it’s a bit overrated personally. Oh, the roleplaying is fantastic, but the gameplay is not for everyone. I myself have forced myself to play it quite a bit this year and I find it to be a more fun game to talk about then play. It doesn’t help that it launched as a buggy mess for me on PS5 and for others as a mess on Xbox. I’m glad most of you admitted that you tried it and it didn’t stick. It’s really refreshing to me since I felt the same and there was a point earlier this year where I almost felt like I was insane for feeling that way. I like Push Square for its honesty and I’m glad you all chose what felt right for you all… and it matched with the site vote too!
@Mad001 Again in English please.
I think the top five is spot on, but I would tweak the order.
@Grimwood It looks great, it just won’t be eligible for this site.
@somnambulance I mean a lot of those big AAA games a lot of us say are GOTY usually have a kinda long reveal to release cuz of increased development times. There’s not really many officially announced undated ones I could see coming out. Hopefully publishers stop announcing games more than like 2 years from release and maybe we could even see some surprises for this year.
Gutted Tchia didn't feature more prominently especially in OST but guess not enough people played it. Seriously missed out on that one, great game
Thanks for posting all of these. Always makes for interesting reading and it is always a fun way to cap a year in gaming and start a new one.
Looking forward to continuing my BG3 Warlock run then seeing what gems this year brings.
That top 10 is seriously disappointing. Other than Baldurs Gate 3, gaming has barely evolved over the decades. I could've played these games at any point over the last 30 years and all that would be different would be the quality of the graphics.
@themightyant @somnambulance Agreed re the writers individual GOTY lists, thought they were excellent with great variety and more interesting than the "official" countdown. I even bought some games that weren't on my radar thanks to those articles.
@Deoxyr1bose I dunno. Sony especially has been quiet with their releases lately. I mean, Rise of the Ronin can’t be the big Sony release this year. They’ve got other cards in their pocket. They keep things quiet for a big pop sometimes. I have a feeling there’s one of those toward the holiday season. I hope?
@somnambulance I think we can see Stellar Blade as well. But idk with how long development times are getting and Sony’s sudden push and reported shift away from live service, I think it’s more likely that this is a quieter year for Sony than not.
In case anyone is curious (I obviously was), here are the last 3 years Push Square top 10 GOTY lists:
2022–
https://www.pushsquare.com/features/round-up-these-are-our-game-of-the-year-picks-so-far
(Missing the overall #1, which I believe was GoW Ragnarok)
2021–
https://www.pushsquare.com/features/round-up-all-our-game-of-the-year-winners
2020–
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2021/01/round_up_all_our_game_of_the_year_winners
I’d say 2023 was really strong comparatively. 2020 was great and 2022 also not too shabby. But 2021… eh.
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Nice list. I plan to play some of these over the next few years. The backlog is real. Only one I'll probably get to this year is BG3 to see what all the fuss is about. Not usually my type of game but I watched a friend play a bit and I think it's worth a try.
Only played the other Spiderman games in the last 12 months so I might leave a bit more time before playing a 3rd so soon. Found MM to be very samey-samey.
@Deoxyr1bose yeah, I get the feeling that 2024 will be a slow year for Sony and Nintendo, though finally a relatively lively year for Xbox in comparison. It’s sort of a shame because this year was a slow year for Sony too, my least favorite year from them as a first party studio in about 10 years or so. That’s just me personally though, I suppose. Even if they plop a couple of the live service games out, that’d be better than nothing. I’m hoping Stellar Blade does end up being an interesting title with wide appeal, though right now, as popular as it is around here, I get the feeling it may end up as a solid and niche title rather than feel like a huge first party release, same as Rise of the Ronin, I suspect.
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