Game of the Year: Best PS5 Story Game of 2025

Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2025 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 story game of 2025.

Bronze Trophy: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

While the Uncharted series takes a well-earned rest, globe-trotting adventurer Indiana Jones stepped in to fill the boots of Nathan Drake with a fantastic story-led experience. The game was ported over to PS5 shortly after its original Xbox Series X|S, PC release, and offers exploration-focused gameplay, open levels to admire, and a whip.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle marks an amazing return to the video game sphere for Indy, and the fun, tongue-in-cheek storyline fuels all his adventures, from the pyramids of Giza to the Vatican. It's not the deepest story in the world, but if you're looking to just have an absolute blast and a fun time, look no further than MachineGames' latest.

Read our Indiana Jones and the Great Circle PS5 review through the link.

Silver Trophy: Dispatch

The episodic Telltale Games release schedule, once thought dead and outdated, has been resurrected by Dispatch. In what is basically a playable TV show, you'll make choices and guide villains as they look to right their wrongs by helping those in need in an alternative Los Angeles.

The magic of Dispatch is found in all the scenes between the gameplay, where your cast of villains and many supporting characters interact, fall in love, or fight with one another. It's a game where your decisions matter, putting the narrative at the heart of the experience. Treat it like an actual TV series, playing one episode per day, and Dispatch will take you on the most wonderful, comedic journey.

Read our Dispatch PS5 review through the link.

Gold Trophy: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

One of the greatest storytellers in the industry, Hideo Kojima returns with a direct follow-up to his 2019 curio that does just about everything better. Death Stranding 2 streamlines its delivery-based gameplay and makes the story easier to follow, while not losing any of its depth, detail, or weirdness.

Many played by Hollywood actors, the cast of characters brings to life the plot through life-like visuals and quality voice acting. Twists are aplenty, and the lengthy, high-budget cutscenes are too. Death Stranding 2 is one of those games you call an "experience", and its story is pivotal to that. It'll go down as a special one.

Read our Death Stranding 2: On the Beach PS5 review through the link.

Platinum Trophy: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was in the running for this award based on its premise alone, long before it even released. Fighting for their future and those who come after, a group of volunteers fight to take down the Paintress, as she brings about the annual Gommage — an event where anyone the same age as what she paints disappears.

The best thing, though, is that setup really is just the tip of the iceberg of what Sandfall Interactive has crafted.

What follows is an equally dark and joyous journey to the Paintress and beyond, with a stellar cast of characters that massively elevate every single scene they appear in. It's not just the beat-for-beat of the narrative that grips you; it's every little cutscene, each interaction, and all the dialogue in between that raise Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to a masterpiece. If you care even one iota about story in video games, you have to play this.

Read our Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 PS5 review through the link.

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