Today marks the first anniversary of PlayStation 5 following the hardware's US launch on 12th November 2020, and a lot of games have come out during that time. Things got off to a flying start with a very strong launch lineup, and Sony has persisted by keeping owners engaged with a variety of exclusive titles throughout 2021. There are already hundreds of native PS5 games available, and to mark today's celebration, we want to know which ones are your favourites so far.
Listed below are the majority of the most noteworthy PS5 titles out to date, and you can choose up to three of your favourites games so far. There's likely to be an omission here and there, and we apologise for that, but we've done our best to cover every PS5 game people seem to care about. For more coverage of the PS5's first anniversary, click through to our PS5 Report Card.
Now it's time for you to share what your five favourite PS5 titles are so far. Select up to three games, and then reveal your picks in the comments below along with your reasoning.
What's your favourite PS5 game so far? (Select up to three answers) (5,298 votes)
Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he can be found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.
Rift Apart and Demon's Souls both more than lived up to my expectations, Returnal is one heck of a first outing for Housemarque's AAA debut, but I'm genuinely surprised by just how good Miles Morales is. Insomniac is the MVP of this generation so far, and I can't wait to see what they do with the full blown spider-man sequel.
Demon's Souls, Returnal & Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut. However I gotta give special mention to Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, F.I.S.T, Astro's Playroom, Alan Wake Remastered, Resident Evil Village and Little Nightmares 2.
Only 5 PS5 games, so it's a easy top 3 for me:
Demon's Souls
Astro's Playroom
Rift Apart
Returnal I've played, but not enough to push it to top 3 so that is obviously very biased from me (also, regards to PS5 games that is the order I played them in).
Deathloop I've not played at all, but because it's also on PC I don't really count it anyway.
@jdv95 I played RE Village on PC and really enjoyed it. But even though it's a remake, Demon's Souls on PS5 is AMAZING so that should be in top 3 (imo).
I voted for Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I've probably played other games (like FIFA) way more, but these are the three that at their peak I've "loved" the most I think.
There's loads of honourable mentions here, though: Miles Morales, Hitman 3, MLB The Show — I'm personally of the opinion it's been a really good first year, even if it hasn't had many "OMGWOWCANTBELIEVETHIS" exclusives.
It's close between Lost Judgment and Scarlet Nexus for my favorite of the year. I thought it was Lost Judgment but the more I think on it the more I lean towards Scarlet Nexus.
1. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
2. Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut
3. Astro’s Playroom
4. Returnal
5. Hades
6. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Other potential contenders that I own, but haven’t yet got around to playing include, Demon’s Souls, Disco Elysium and FF7 Remake.
Add in something like Deathloop or RE Village, and what a Top Ten list of games that is for what’s just the FIRST YEAR of a new generation. Absolutely incredible and, aside from the games we already know about, I can’t wait to see what 2022 brings us on PS5.
With the Italian plumber strapped across the box it would by a goty contender. As it stands I absolutely loved it!
Astrobot is obviously Astrobot so it's fuppin fire. And then I had a difficult choice. Nothing scratches my itches so far and Returnal is good but not amazing, Disco Elysium has soft locked me. So yeah not overly happy giving either of them a tick. So plumped for FFV7, free upgrade woop woop.
Now get us some more games Sony. Fed up with watching Xbox bringing the fire whilst we are fed scraps. 2022 can't come soon enough.
So far I've played this PS5 games: SW Jedi Fallen Order - beautiful Ratchet - beautiful D&D Dark Alliance - plain (ps3?) Werewolf - are you joking? (ps3?) Aliens - are you joking? (stupid) Mortal Shell - beautiful but weird
@LazyLombax it did though? Not too much in game say for a few rumblings here and there but it was very pronounced in the shooting with each gun “feeling” completely different
Argh we can only pick three. I went with Rift Apart, Astro's Playroom and Ghost of Tsushima as my three, but Like A Dragon definitely deserves an honorable mention.
1. Resident Evil: Village
2. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
3. Yakuza: Like a Dragon (almost never care for turn-based RPGs but somehow this one pulled me in, very fun, fast-paced gameplay)
Honorable mentions:
Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Lost Judgment, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Guardians of the Galaxy, Astro's Playroom, Tales of Arise, Returnal, Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition, The Medium, Scarlet Nexus, Demon's Souls and Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
My favorite PS5 game is the one where I try to find one without paying a scalper. My second favorite is realizing that most of the games I want on PS5 are also out, or coming out on PS4. My third favorite game is hoping they come out with a slim version so I can fit it in my house when it actually does come out. It’s a super fun and rad system!
As much as I loved demon souls, it's just another remaster/remake, and it's hard to judge that as new regardless of how great it looked.
It's interesting when you see it all laid out in a list like this; that most of these games are cross Gen with merely ps5 upgrades. Then you take into account that almost all of the big major exclusives coming to PS in the near future are also, all just cross Gen. As really that translated to the perks of next generation just bring improved technical functionality rather than games built for and evolving/improving based in more technical headroom.
So im wondering when we really start seeing ps5 dedicated games aside from the very few we saw so far. Ps5 pro time Ala 2023-2025?
Hi there fellow gamers. My three favourite PS5 exclusive games are as follows:
Returnal. My personal GOTY. That game is soooo good;
Astro´s Playroom. A beautiful Playstation tribute game;
Demon´s Souls. Another great PS5 and Dualsense game. As for PS4/PS5 games, those are:
Ghost of Tsushima. That game will never not be my GOTY;
Spiderman Miles Morales. An "Amazing" superhero game;
Sackboy A Big Adventure. One the best 3D platformers on PS. I am currently playing, and enjoying a lot by the way, Rachet and Clank Rift Apart. It´s my very first RC game and iit is one of the prettiest games I´ve played. Also great Dualsense implementation 👍 Some really good games overall. Glad to have experienced them. Cheers, stay safe everyone and happy PS5/PS4 gaming to us all
Returnal for me, nothing else comes close. Astro and Demons Souls are great too, and Deathloop, and Ratchet. But Returnal feels more special to me than all of those. I enjoyed it so much, I'd say its up there as one my favourite games ever. Looking forward to whatever Housemarque do next.
@JustPlainLoco Special mention from me for F.I.S.T also. I usually keep my side scrolling metroidvanias for Switch but exclusivity forced my hand. So that makes it the first side-scroller I’ve played on an actual TV since at least 2017 & I’ve gotta say, I wasn’t mad at it. Beautiful game
Toss up between Demon’s Souls and Returnal for me. I have over 100 hours and counting on both games and will have lots more as they’re both such amazing games. Ratchet and clank third.
@TheDudeElDuderino Hi there dude and thanks for the reply. I tryed my best 😉 I probably could have mentioned Tales of Arise and DMC 5 Special Edition, both great as well, but they are multiplatform games, so there is that. Some people tend to complain, but I tend to apreciate what I have as much as possible. Just the kind of man I am. Cheers, stay safe and have a good one my dude
Since I don't have a PS5 yet but the list includes cross-gen titles, I chose Ghost of Tsushima, FF7R and Tales of Arise. Some other titles that I like are RE Village, Death Stranding and Demon's Souls (yeah I haven't played the remake yet but it's a quality remake of the PS3 title that I played)
I haven't had a Playstation since the original, so part of the reason I got a PS5 was to play some PS4 games... Most of my time with the system has been playing...
@themcnoisy I stopped playing Sackboy when I came to the first orb gate where I couldn’t proceed because I didn’t have enough orbs to proceed. I hate when platformers make you collect a certain Amount of anything to advance because that’s not how I like to play a level. It ruins the flow to stop and look under every bush for a collectible. So a year later and I have never gone back to it. Astro’s Playroom is the game Mario should have been in 2020.
I voted for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Tales of Arise
Made a mistake with my voting. Would really like to change Tales of Arise for Astros Playroom instead. Mainly because Astro feels amazing on the PS5 and dualsense. It's a must play for every PS5 owner to try. It shows what the dualsense is capable of doing.
Voted for Tales of because I feel it's the better game but thinking of it now, that would be more suited for a Game of the Year vote rather than favourite PS5 game.
Yall forgot NHL 22! I would have voted for that but im going with Yakuza like a dragon, Ghost of Tsushima, and Miles Morales. All 3 of those games for me made me glad to have a PS5 mainly that haptic feedback.
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I'll get back to you when Life of Black Tiger receives its 4K/60 patch on PS5 that'll brings up to its full potential.
This was a tough one. Wanted to choose Deathloop and it takes two but alas went with Returnal, Ratchet and Astrobot!
Elden Ring...In roughly 3 munfs time.
Miles Morales, Demon’s Souls, and Resident Evil: Village were all so good. Still many I need to play though
Astro's. Demon's Souls. Returnal.
Astro's Playroom is one of my top 10 games ever, so that's an obvious choice.
It Takes Two and Yakuza 7 are amazing as well.
Returnal is my #1!
@Just2Milky Same. For me, possibly of all-time...
Demon souls.ratchet and clank.and ghost of tshushima and returnal.word up son
Astro, Disco Elysium and unfortunately The Pedestrian isn’t there!
Disco Elysium is far and away the best one imo, never played anything like it before.
Next are Guardians of the Galaxy (really didn’t expect to love it thus much) and Rachet and Clank for the sheer spectacle.
Why no 'other' option?
Every poll needs one.
Hell let loose.
There's nowt else like it.
I have many favourites but If Im not sure what to play I always go for vergil bloody palace Dmc5 never gets boring.
No love for Dirt 5 or F1 2021? Have Codemasters upset you in some way?
Returnal
Demon's Souls
Astro's Playroom
in no order.
resi village
far cry 6
guardians of the galaxy.
1. Returnal
2. Returnal
3. Returnal
Nothing else has come close to it so far
Rift Apart and Demon's Souls both more than lived up to my expectations, Returnal is one heck of a first outing for Housemarque's AAA debut, but I'm genuinely surprised by just how good Miles Morales is. Insomniac is the MVP of this generation so far, and I can't wait to see what they do with the full blown spider-man sequel.
Demon's Souls, Returnal & Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut.
However I gotta give special mention to Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, F.I.S.T, Astro's Playroom, Alan Wake Remastered, Resident Evil Village and Little Nightmares 2.
I didn't see Astro's and I would like to get my votes back 😭
Very tough but ultimately; Returnal, Miles Morales, Astro!!!
Ghost of Tsushima was up there but that £25 upgrade was sickening
Technically 27 of these games are actually PS4 games theres just enhancedforthe PS5
Ratchet & Clank.
Miles Morales.
Astro's Playroom.
Only 5 PS5 games, so it's a easy top 3 for me:
Demon's Souls
Astro's Playroom
Rift Apart
Returnal I've played, but not enough to push it to top 3 so that is obviously very biased from me (also, regards to PS5 games that is the order I played them in).
Deathloop I've not played at all, but because it's also on PC I don't really count it anyway.
@jdv95 I played RE Village on PC and really enjoyed it. But even though it's a remake, Demon's Souls on PS5 is AMAZING so that should be in top 3 (imo).
I voted for Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls, and Yakuza: Like a Dragon. I've probably played other games (like FIFA) way more, but these are the three that at their peak I've "loved" the most I think.
There's loads of honourable mentions here, though: Miles Morales, Hitman 3, MLB The Show — I'm personally of the opinion it's been a really good first year, even if it hasn't had many "OMGWOWCANTBELIEVETHIS" exclusives.
They will come, though.
Didnt have the pleasure to play on the PS5 yet. Ill have to buy a laptop for work so even if available i wont be able get one yet.
1. Spider-Man Miles Morales
2. Demon's Souls
3. Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
4. Returnal
5. Deathloop
6. Astros Playroom
7. F.I.S.T. Forged in Shadow Torch
8. Resident Evil Village
9. Kena Bridge of Spirits
10. Sackboy: A Big Adventure
1. Resident evil village
2. Metro exodus
3. Astro’s playroom
Where's Control? Metro Exodus?
This is lacking a load of titles.
I would vote for Immortals Fenyx Rising if it was on the list 🙁
It's close between Lost Judgment and Scarlet Nexus for my favorite of the year. I thought it was Lost Judgment but the more I think on it the more I lean towards Scarlet Nexus.
Demon's Souls would take the 3rd spot.
Where is godfall? I chose back 4 blood,hades and outriders but i would have swapped outriders out for godfall..
Astro's Palyroom needs a sequel. FF7RE is amazing on PS5. Just waiting for a true next generation open world game.
Disco Elysium will certainly be in the running for game of the decade. Fantastic achievement.
Shame I couldn’t vote for six 😢
1. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
2. Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut
3. Astro’s Playroom
4. Returnal
5. Hades
6. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Other potential contenders that I own, but haven’t yet got around to playing include, Demon’s Souls, Disco Elysium and FF7 Remake.
Add in something like Deathloop or RE Village, and what a Top Ten list of games that is for what’s just the FIRST YEAR of a new generation. Absolutely incredible and, aside from the games we already know about, I can’t wait to see what 2022 brings us on PS5.
Astros playroom by a mile! Free and best use of Dual Shock and a hell of a game!
I've put well over 100 hours into Tales of Arise. One of my favorite RPGs in years.
Chivalry 2 should be on here. I wanted to give it a vote, but the option wasn't there.
I would definitely put Guardians of the Galaxy, alongside with Lost Judgement, and RE Village.
Returnal
Demon's Souls
Marvel's GotG
Returnal. Simply stupendous game.
But also Control Ultimate Edition for a close second, but it’s not listed. That game is fabulous with the power of the PS5.
No WRC, F1.. PATHETIC!
Filtering it down to 3 is next to impossible.
Miles Morales, Tales of Arise, RE Village, Ratchet And Clank, Lost Judgement, Iki Island.
KENA, Valhalla, Disco Elysium I played on PC.
Astro, Like a Dragon, Scarlet Nexus, GOTG, F1 and FC6 get honorable mentions just for being tons of fun to play... yeah my PS5 has been on a lot 😀
Sackboy a big adventure.
With the Italian plumber strapped across the box it would by a goty contender. As it stands I absolutely loved it!
Astrobot is obviously Astrobot so it's fuppin fire. And then I had a difficult choice. Nothing scratches my itches so far and Returnal is good but not amazing, Disco Elysium has soft locked me. So yeah not overly happy giving either of them a tick. So plumped for FFV7, free upgrade woop woop.
Now get us some more games Sony. Fed up with watching Xbox bringing the fire whilst we are fed scraps. 2022 can't come soon enough.
At £70 not played enough on the list yet to really have a fair take.
But where’s Genshin Impact
1. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
2. Returnal
3. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
@Ralizah I'm waiting for this too. It's coming...
So far I've played this PS5 games:
SW Jedi Fallen Order - beautiful
Ratchet - beautiful
D&D Dark Alliance - plain (ps3?)
Werewolf - are you joking? (ps3?)
Aliens - are you joking? (stupid)
Mortal Shell - beautiful but weird
@LazyLombax it did though? Not too much in game say for a few rumblings here and there but it was very pronounced in the shooting with each gun “feeling” completely different
Returnal, by far.
Difficult after that; I voted for Astro's Playroom and Spiderman Remastered (never played it on PS4), although Valhalla was in with a shout too.
I'd have voted for No Man's Sky if it had been in the list!
1. Returnal
2. Demon’s Souls
3. Astro’s Playroom
Returnal no question
Argh we can only pick three. I went with Rift Apart, Astro's Playroom and Ghost of Tsushima as my three, but Like A Dragon definitely deserves an honorable mention.
1. Resident Evil: Village
2. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
3. Yakuza: Like a Dragon (almost never care for turn-based RPGs but somehow this one pulled me in, very fun, fast-paced gameplay)
Honorable mentions:
Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Lost Judgment, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, Guardians of the Galaxy, Astro's Playroom, Tales of Arise, Returnal, Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition, The Medium, Scarlet Nexus, Demon's Souls and Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
My favorite PS5 game is the one where I try to find one without paying a scalper. My second favorite is realizing that most of the games I want on PS5 are also out, or coming out on PS4. My third favorite game is hoping they come out with a slim version so I can fit it in my house when it actually does come out.
It’s a super fun and rad system!
Most of these games are crosd gen, so would not consider PS5 games. The best true PS5 game of course is Astrobot
So many people picking the right answer: Returnal, Demon’s Souls and Astro.
1) It was way herder to choose only three titles than I could have possibly imagined.
2) Screw these options, SKYRIM 4 LIFE!!! I’m so happy to be in this world yet again, earning another platinum for it!!! We did it baby! WOOOO!
@LazyLombax nah man, all the guns do
Hands down Returnal.
As much as I loved demon souls, it's just another remaster/remake, and it's hard to judge that as new regardless of how great it looked.
It's interesting when you see it all laid out in a list like this; that most of these games are cross Gen with merely ps5 upgrades. Then you take into account that almost all of the big major exclusives coming to PS in the near future are also, all just cross Gen. As really that translated to the perks of next generation just bring improved technical functionality rather than games built for and evolving/improving based in more technical headroom.
So im wondering when we really start seeing ps5 dedicated games aside from the very few we saw so far. Ps5 pro time Ala 2023-2025?
Miles
Astro
Ratchet & Clank
Could have been Control which I loved & having not played it on last gen but Miles is a clear winner for me.
After 1 year of PS5, welcome to the hall of "shame":
Alas, my top picks are:
1. Demon's Souls
2. Ratchet and Clank : Rift apart
3. Spiderman - Miles Morales.
Hi there fellow gamers.
My three favourite PS5 exclusive games are as follows:
As for PS4/PS5 games, those are:
I am currently playing, and enjoying a lot by the way,
Rachet and Clank Rift Apart. It´s my very first RC game and iit is one of the prettiest games I´ve played.
Also great Dualsense implementation 👍
Some really good games overall.
Glad to have experienced them.
Cheers, stay safe everyone and happy PS5/PS4 gaming to us all
Returnal for me, nothing else comes close. Astro and Demons Souls are great too, and Deathloop, and Ratchet. But Returnal feels more special to me than all of those. I enjoyed it so much, I'd say its up there as one my favourite games ever. Looking forward to whatever Housemarque do next.
@RaZieLDaNtE nice post dude, great choices and nicely elaborated. Happy gaming
Chose demonsouls, but so far very disappointed..
Game pass has taken all my time ! Forza 5 and halo next week..
1. Tales of Arise
2. Kena Bridge of spirits
3. Ratchet and clank Rift Apart
Also In sound mind was pretty good
I haven’t played any of these yet!
Kena only at 3%, what a shame. My PS5 GOTY so far
FIFA 22 is my best and worst since its the only game I have on PS5 so far lol
I would have voted for Destiny 2. Playing in 60 or 120 frames per second is quite a joy.
Ratchet and Clank is winning baby! Woo-hoo! 😆
My personal top 3
1) Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
2) Deathloop (surprised, as much as I love Arkane Studios, I initially had zero interest in Deathloop. I'm glad I gave it a chance.
3) Assassin's Creed Valhalla
@Legacy2K
I'll find out next week as I was waiting for the physical edition. It was my most anticipated PS5 game outside of Ratchet and Clank.
@JustPlainLoco Special mention from me for F.I.S.T also. I usually keep my side scrolling metroidvanias for Switch but exclusivity forced my hand. So that makes it the first side-scroller I’ve played on an actual TV since at least 2017 & I’ve gotta say, I wasn’t mad at it. Beautiful game
Toss up between Demon’s Souls and Returnal for me. I have over 100 hours and counting on both games and will have lots more as they’re both such amazing games.
Ratchet and clank third.
@TheDudeElDuderino Hi there dude and thanks for the reply.
I tryed my best 😉
I probably could have mentioned Tales of Arise and DMC 5 Special Edition, both great as well, but they are multiplatform games, so there is that.
Some people tend to complain, but I tend to apreciate what I have as much as possible. Just the kind of man I am.
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one my dude
Since I don't have a PS5 yet but the list includes cross-gen titles, I chose Ghost of Tsushima, FF7R and Tales of Arise. Some other titles that I like are RE Village, Death Stranding and Demon's Souls (yeah I haven't played the remake yet but it's a quality remake of the PS3 title that I played)
Returnal. one of the best games I've ever played
I'll let you know when I'm finally able to find one in 2023 or 2024....
I haven't had a Playstation since the original, so part of the reason I got a PS5 was to play some PS4 games... Most of my time with the system has been playing...
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Persona 5 Royal
God of War
@themcnoisy I stopped playing Sackboy when I came to the first orb gate where I couldn’t proceed because I didn’t have enough orbs to proceed. I hate when platformers make you collect a certain Amount of anything to advance because that’s not how I like to play a level. It ruins the flow to stop and look under every bush for a collectible. So a year later and I have never gone back to it. Astro’s Playroom is the game Mario should have been in 2020.
I voted for
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Tales of Arise
Made a mistake with my voting. Would really like to change Tales of Arise for Astros Playroom instead. Mainly because Astro feels amazing on the PS5 and dualsense. It's a must play for every PS5 owner to try. It shows what the dualsense is capable of doing.
Voted for Tales of because I feel it's the better game but thinking of it now, that would be more suited for a Game of the Year vote rather than favourite PS5 game.
Yall forgot NHL 22! I would have voted for that but im going with Yakuza like a dragon, Ghost of Tsushima, and Miles Morales. All 3 of those games for me made me glad to have a PS5 mainly that haptic feedback.
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