Metaphor: ReFantazio (PS5)
$38.49/£32.99 (-45%)
The team behind the Persona series presents its take on a fantasy RPG with Metaphor: ReFantazio. Structured very similarly to its stablemates, this game has you exploring a realm filled with monsters, monarchy, and magic, and is just as stylish too, with gorgeous presentation throughout. Presenting players with one of the best RPG stories in recent memory, engaging combat, and rewarding gameplay systems, this is yet another banger from Atlus.
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Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4)
$4.99/£3.99 (-90%)
Mortal Kombat 11’s spectacular presentation and crunching combat make it a headline entry in the long-running franchise. With an absolute mountain of single player content to get through, as well as an active competitive scene, this is one of the best fighters you can find on PS4.
Neon White (PS5)
$12.49/£9.99 (-50%)
We can't think of many more unusual elevator pitches than Neon White's. A first-person platformer that's also a slightly horny visual novel, and you use guns represented by cards to kill enemies and enable special abilities? What? Amazingly, the whole thing hangs together far better than it sounds on paper. Speeding through each level, shaving off fractions of a second each time, is exhilarating and addictive, discarding weapons to double jump or blink forwards feels fantastic, and the visual novel side is a calming break from the action. It's a very different platformer, but a very good one.
Returnal (PS5)
$29.39/£34.99 (-50%)
Not that it needed to, but with Returnal, Housemarque has proven itself an incredibly capable studio. This PS5 exclusive is a frantic, ultra-tight third person shooter dressed up with some rogue-like elements to add variety and unpredictability to the mix, and the result is wonderful.
Sea of Thieves (PS5)
$19.99/£19.99 (-50%)
Sea of Thieves is a brilliant shared world online experience that delivers on the fantasy of being a swashbuckling pirate. You and your crew of buddies man your very own ship, and must scour the seas and numerous islands for buried treasure before cashing it in for upgrades. However, it's never quite that simple, as other online crews may hunt you down, and reanimated skeletons and ghosts will aim to put an end to your quest for loot. Immensely entertaining with a group of friends, this is a fresh and engaging online realm that's always evolving.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (PS5)
$9.99/£11.24 (-75%)
One of the best Star Wars games in recent memory is Jedi: Fallen Order, and it's even better with its PS5 iteration. The action title charts the adventures of Cal Kestis, a character who undergoes secret Jedi training amid the Empire's crackdown. With a motley crew, you journey to various known and new worlds, engaging in simple environmental puzzles and intense melee combat. On PS5, the game benefits from improved framerate and higher resolution, giving you the best picture possible while cutting through Stormtroopers with your customised lightsaber.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (PS5)
$14.99/£11.99 (-40%)
Inspired by the many beloved TMNT games of yesteryear, Shredder's Revenge is a wonderful beat-'em-up that blends old and new for a turtle-y refreshing experience. You can of course play as the reptilian quartet, but Splinter, April O'Neil, and an unlockable Casey Jones all join the fight too, each with unique stats. The game features gorgeous pixel art with superb animations, as well as an excellent soundtrack and varied, enjoyable stages to fight through. With co-op either locally or online, this is an incredibly enjoyable game to play with some pals and pizza.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (PS5)
$39.99/£39.99 (-20%)
Despite its name, Oblivion Remastered is probably more of a remake, boasting completely new Unreal Engine 5 visuals and welcome gameplay improvements over the original release. The beloved 2006 RPG always deserved some kind of revival, and this is arguably the perfect way to go about it; the core of Oblivion is still here — its memorable brand of madness remains — but Remastered's numerous enhancements make the whole adventure a home run all over again. A must-play for the nostalgic, and a great way to experience a landmark open world for everyone else.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition (PS5)
$9.99/£8.74 (-75%)
One of the most enduring games in history, Bethesda's iconic RPG comes to PS5 with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Anniversary Edition. What's more, it's quite simply the best version of Skyrim to ever grace a PlayStation console. This is a real cut above previous versions (which were often riddled with bugs), offering a mostly locked 60 frames-per-second at 4K resolution. It's taken a decade, but Bethesda has finally delivered a smooth experience with this PS5 release — and crucially, the game is still a fantastic, enormous RPG well worth playing today.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition (PS5)
$9.99/£6.99 (-80%)
Seven years later, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still one of the absolute best RPGs around. This updated PS5 version only adds a little bit of new content in the form of costumes and a (actually fantastic) quest inspired by the Netflix series, but the visuals are better than ever thanks to improved assets, textures, lighting, and even a dedicated ray tracing mode. What's more, a number of small gameplay improvements really add up, resulting in the definitive edition of Geralt's generational adventure. If you've got the urge for yet another replay, then it's best done on PS5 with what is the best looking and best playing version of The Witcher 3.
What Remains of Edith Finch (PS5)
$4.99/£3.99 (-75%)
What Remains of Edith Finch is a difficult game to talk about without spoiling what makes it special. It's a narrative-driven experience that only lasts a few hours, but it packs in so much inventive design and imaginative sequences that it will stick with you for longer than anything else. Playing as the titular Edith Finch, you return to her rickety, unusual family house and unearth what happened to everyone. It's emotional, surprising, characterful, and unique. Now also on PS5, there's no excuse to skip this excellent adventure.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PS5)
$7.99/£9.99 (-60%)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon barely feels next-gen as it’s very much rooted by Ryu ga Gotoku Studio’s dated engine and game design principles, but it’s bursting with personality and one of the most varied releases on this list. At its core, it’s a traditional, turn-based (a first for the franchise) role-playing game built around an engaging and relatable party of core characters, but it’s so much more: this small but densely populated open world harbours go-karts, an entire business management minigame, and more wacky side-quests than you can shake a massage wand at. This is one of the most unique and time consuming titles on PS5.
Which games are you planning to grab from the Player's Choice sale on PS Store and why? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Sales are always happening. Unless you absolutely cannot wait to play a game, just wait a month or two. Only early players are paying $70-$80+ for games. Unless you’re playing Nintendo IP.
I implore people to try Plague Tale: requeim, It was on my back log for the longest time, and got around to it during the summer. To put it simply, the story is extremely good and game play was a big step up from the first one.
I own far too many games... including all the ones I want from this list.
The $9.99 Skyrim is for the upgrade pack only, not the full game, unless I read it wrong? I was getting ready to quintuple dip.
@themightyant Right there with you bud. There are some great titles in here though, which is why we'll own them already!
@Titntin @themightyant I was about to say the same thing. Some of us need to start a group for people who miss a time when sales were actually exciting! Lol.
Deathloop looks like fun, but every time I see it I just remember how it showed up at every single State of Play and Showcase for over a year.
Think I'll pick up Neon White based on this recommendation.
@Titntin @somnambulance With almost 5000 games on sale there ARE some good or even great deals on other games. A few I noticed.
But I have most of those too Mostly I am NOT looking to buy, have too many bought games I haven't played yet. (Famous last words)
What Remains of Edith Finch is my gaming comfort food. I've played through it so many times, and always pick up new things on every playthrough. It's really emotional and thought provoking, especially when you start considering who the real villian of the game is. Then top it off with every story introducing new gameplay mechanics. It's an absolute joy.
@themightyant
Nice secondary list👍
I own 10 of those titles too though.. but not Neva which I might pick up at that price..
I also noticed SOT is £20 again. I'm thinking I can form a crew with my wife and enjoy time in the safe seas environment. We have two TV's and two pros in our living room, so this type of multiplayer is good for us - though the wife often uses the portal and sits next to me on the sofa (which is why I rarely get to use the portal) 😊
Now I've finally mothballed the series X, I'm looking to buy a switch 2 in the next week or so, so I think I need to save my money!
@Steeleye50 I couldn't agree more, this is one of the all time great games and well worth repeated plays. I'd strongly encourage anyone who has not tried it to do so, I think most would enjoy it at least.
It wasn't listed here, but I picked up Eternal Strands and so far I'm very impressed.
These sales are becoming way too big to bother to browse through. They need to separate games and dlc lists. It's just too much stuff!
@Steeleye50 Who is the real villian in What Remains of Edith Finch? Her mother?! It’s too long ago to remember the finer details.
Still haven’t played the Blood and Wine DLC. Is it significant enough to buy the complete game again for 10 (currency unit of your choice)?
I wish I could find something decent but I'm so sick and tired of the all the crap AI generated asset flip games filling up the search results. Before it got worse I've found some beautiful bargains between £3-5 but now I get some I've already got then by about 15 rows down comes the crap.
I thin out for full games only and low and behold the ***** just shows, it's just as bad as Nintendo eshop
I think Balatro is a much better game on mobile then console.
@Max_the_German The grandmother Edie. It's why Edith's mother took her out of the home, because she blamed all of her stories and superstitions about the family being cursed were putting everyone in danger since they believed the curse was real and inevitable.
@Steeleye50 Okay, this is understandable, but didn’t the fatal events indeed accidentally?
@Titntin @themightyant Only one on that list I don’t have is Mortal Shell and I’m not interested. Jeez, my catalog is dense. It’s sort of crazy. I caught up in 2020 on the “games I missed” type of thing and sales were plentiful and deep in those times. I’ve literally only bought games at release the last five years! I think Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection is going to be the first game I let sit on my wishlist for a sale since Cave Story+. I was waiting on that one to hit $10 since I’ve already played it, but I do t know if that’ll ever happen. Only reason I’m letting MK sit on the wishlist too is because my kids basically told me that they won’t play MK with me and they told me fighting is stupid. I mean, I guess I’m raising them right in that way, but I was like… fine, we don’t need that one then… for now… maybe?
I just beat DEATHLOOP a couple of days ago it's an ok game IMO it wouldn't make my list of essential games on PS5
@Max_the_German some of them yes. The idea is that many of them are opening themselves up to danger since they are going to die of the curse anyway. It was a theory I read a while back and it just really makes me think everytime I play it. Edith's mom was trying to break the cycle but unfortunately that didn't work.
Head up! As of this comment Amazon has borderlands 4 for $56.
@somnambulance I just can't fathom how anyone can have completed their backlog. lol. I've got hundreds of games I haven't played and hundreds more I didn't buy but would like to play. They could stop making games for the next decade and I might still not catch up.
While it's true Game Pass makes this an even more impossible challenge I also love the sheer variety of games I get to try, it makes my gaming life wider and richer, as well as allowing my to try - risk free - many games I never would have bought. But it does make the backlog just get longer every month.
@Nem You can filter those.
@Oram77 Thank you for the advice! Is it mandatory to have finished the first one before or not ?
@Nem you can filter by type (Game, dlc etc.) even genra and platform (Ps4 / Ps5)
Sneaking Deathloop into this list. 😂
@themightyant @somnambulance
I'm a little cheaper - I do buy a significant percentage of my games in the sales. Then they sit in the pile and wait till I catch up - if I ever do!
I also get a lot of variety and get to try things I would never have bought from a sub service, but in my case I prefer PS plus extra.
New releases that I know I want - I buy, so Game passes new releases are not a win for me, I either own it or wasn't that interested. I've found over the years that the bigger library of PS plus extra works better for me than gamepass, where the smaller games being added (ie non release day titles) have often already been on PS plus before they hit GP. Now the price increase is here I've dropped it and mothballed the series X, so its PS plus I rely on for all those sleeper titles I never knew I wanted. Whichever service, it just puts pressure on my backlog.
With the series X uninstalled I'm awaiting arrival of a switch 2 today - I'll give it to my wife for her birthday on 29th. God help my backlog!
@themightyant For me, it’s not about completing every game I own anymore, but playing them enough to where I’ve gotten my fill from them. I complete a lot of what I purchase, but I also will drop a game if I feel it’s not for me. I’m not a completionist, so I tend to play through the story and go to the next game. Most of the backlog for me are games I’ll likely never complete for me or the games that just didn’t click.
A good example for me is Pacific Drive. I got maybe 15 hours or so into the game total, and I’ve tried to get into it maybe 2 or 3 times so far and it never seems to click. I still pick it up once in a while just to mess with, but I’ve got no intention of actually beating it anymore. I wouldn’t consider that game backlog for me anymore, as I know where I’m at with it.
In my younger days, I used to have a backlog problem and my OCD was agitated by it. I took “a break” from gaming about 10 years ago due to it and other reasons, but only lasted about half a year from the break and arguably made my backlog crazier, though in a healthier way, I suppose. I paced myself more.
In 2017, I had my first child and my wife told me I had to go do something in another room while she fed our son because, man, the kid had fomo since day 1 lol. In 2018, I broke both of my feet on separate occasions and also had to have foot surgery a couple times not related to those injuries. Those two years gave me a bit of time to catch up for sure. Then 2020 was something of a blessing for me because I was able to organize what still existed of my backlog and allowed me to complete what I actually wanted to complete and discard the rest. I think I had more opportunity than most to tackle the backlog. The only year since where challenge happened was 2023 for me, but 2024 was sort of slow, so I caught back up.
This year, so far, the only games that I’ve bought that may backlog are Silent Hill F and Split Fiction, and I’ll say that that is largely because my wife hadn’t enjoyed playing either of them. I’ve actually finished everything else so far! I’m working on games right now that all released in the last maybe 3 weeks. But Mina the Hollower got delayed and November’s pretty empty, so I may actually have time to play everything yet… outside Split Fiction… I don’t think that one’s happening.
Just gave you my life story, but hopefully that rationalizes it!
@somnambulance Glad you've found something that works for you dude.
Not completing everything makes sense. I am getting better at that, but I still have a drive to want to finished what I started. While I'm not longer an achievement completionist, I do still sometimes 100% games if I am enjoying them, or at least the parts I like. Like Silksong - everything but the speed-runs and 1 death mode finished. That definitely doesn't help the backlog, nor does playing on all platforms and liking too many genres!
@Titntin Enjoy the Switch 2. I like mine, even if I haven't played it much. But like the first Swtich it's mostly just for exclusives. I usually play on a big TV on PS5 Pro.
This might be something only affecting US players, not sure. But the sale prices will go live sometime around 3 AM EST. Typically later that day, in the PM hours, the "store page" on the PSN store will be viewable. But with this sale and also the one previous, I noticed that even hours later, there would be no page for the new sale anywhere. It would take more than 24 hours for that to happen.
And yeah, it's happening with this one. I got pings for games I wishlisted, but when I tried to view it on the PSN store, there was no sale page anywhere. And again, for reference, the prices went live over 24 hours ago. It's weird. So literally, if a game you wanted was on sale, and you didn't have it wishlisted, you would have no way of knowing for a couple days.
@themightyant
Thanks dude. Same here, my gaming is usually on PS5 pro and always on the big screen. Wasn't going to get a switch 2 till they had more exclusives I want to play, but Claire's dropped hints for her birthday and I do have a tradition of buying her handhelds (first one was the Sega Game Gear way back in time).
Has anyone played Tanited Grail Fall of Avalon..Is it worth getting..Thanks..
@themightyant The worst is when you buy a game in a sale, it goes into the backlog and then it's given away on PS+ Essential before you've even played it
Like a Dragon is amazing even with the bazillion cut scenes.
Nice that you do lists but it's absolutely shocking that Sony won't tidy up the PSN clutter on the store it's getting worse now
@1970sGamer I USED to mind that, but now I just see it as doing my bit to support the devs. But this is probably gaslighting myself after the 50th time this happened. lol.
How can you find anything related to this particular sale in the psn store? It just lists 1000s of games on sale. I have to rely on external lists to find the good deals
@themightyant glad to hear I am not the only one…, I think we need help.
@themightyant I feel the same way. In addition to the literally hundreds of games that I have and I'd love to have the time to play (so not just games I own), there is so much on ps+ extra that I simply can't keep up.
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