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Game of the Year #1 - Resident Evil Village
A tall order
Resident Evil 4. It always comes back to Resident Evil 4. Almost 17 years on from Capcom's horror masterpiece, it's still considered the crème de la crème of the series. Who knows if it'll ever be topped — maybe the rumoured remake could pose the question — but at least there's now a new kid on the block. Resident Evil Village at...
Game of the Year Best PS5, PS4 RPG of 2021
Masterworks all
2021 was yet another good year for role-playing games on PlayStation. Granted, a lot of them were actually PS5 re-releases, but there were still plenty of top quality titles to go around. As decided by the Push Square editorial team, these are the best RPGs of 2021. Bronze Trophy: Persona 5 Strikers: Persona 5 Strikers is often...
Game of the Year #2 - Returnal
Helios abandoned
In one of the closest Game of the Year results we've ever had, Returnal takes a well-earned second place spot in our countdown. This is a notable release for many reasons; it's Housemarque's biggest and most ambitious game to date, it's one of only a few true PlayStation 5 exclusives, and it's the first proper attempt at a triple-A...
Game of the Year Best PS5, PS4 Art Direction of 2021
Fit for a gallery
Gee whiz, 2021 brought us some visually stunning video games. As such, we wanted to highlight the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 titles that truly widened our eyes over the last 12 months. Selected by the Push Square editorial team, these are our picks for the best overall art direction of 2021 — taking art style, animation,...
Game of the Year #3 - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Riveting
Critics and fans tend to subscribe to the mindset that the Game of the Year needs to be a trailblazer: innovative, original, unique. In reality, it just needs to be good. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, to its credit, is very good – and it flexes every last sinew of developer Insomniac Games’ technical prowess in the process. This is...
Game of the Year #4 - Hitman 3
Good work, 47
Here’s the thing: you can’t detach Hitman 3 from the World of Assassination Trilogy as a whole. IO Interactive has created something unprecedented across two console generations here: a collection of stealth playgrounds, each intricately designed and brimming with murderous potential. Not getting caught has never felt this good –...
Game of the Year Best PS5, PS4 FPS Game of 2021
Loop the loop
In what feels like a bit of an off-year for the FPS genre, the field of nominees for this year's instalment of the best PS5, PS4 FPS game of 2021 doesn't feel quite as strong. Nevertheless, we've still whittled down the best of the best to a top four. Selected by the Push Square editorial team, these are our picks for the best...
Game of the Year #5 - Psychonauts 2
All in the mind
No matter how much of a cult status the original Psychonauts holds, releasing a direct sequel more than 16 years later was always going to be a daunting prospect. Thank god Double Fine didn’t cave to those fears then because Psychonauts 2 is another game with creativity up the wazoo. Raz returns to work out who the double agent...
Game of the Year Best PS5, PS4 Story or Writing of 2021
Penned in
Stories, characters, and the writing that brings them all together are elements of video games that many (including ourselves) would consider hugely important. There's nothing quite like a gripping plot, so we wanted to highlight the games that held a particularly tight grip on our attention through high quality writing. As chosen by the...
Heavenly hell
While it's true Hades initially launched last year, it only came to PlayStation platforms a few months ago, and by the gods, it was worth the wait. It's no real surprise why the game scooped up so many awards 12 months ago; it's about as good as rogue-likes get, thanks to some slick gameplay and innovative storytelling. With the...
Game of the Year Best PS5, PS4 Remake, Remaster, or Re-Release of 2021
Worth a revisit
2021 will be remembered as a brilliant year for remakes, remasters, and enhanced PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 ports. Since a lot of these games tend to get overlooked for Game of the Year awards in favour of brand new titles, we thought it would be fitting to highlight our favourites. As selected by the Push Square editorial team,...
Game of the Year #7 - It Takes Two
Together forever
Hardcore gamers generally don’t like playing with anyone but themselves, so when It Takes Two comes along and demands a second player be part of the fun just to start the game, it was always facing an uphill battle. Good job many overcame those fears of interacting with another person, though, because Hazelight Studios’...
Game of the Year #8 - Knockout City
Ballin'
This will probably wind up being a contentious inclusion in our Game of the Year countdown, but it really shouldn't. Knockout City is an online-only multiplayer game with broad appeal, fuelled by frequent post-launch updates and battle pass-style progression. While many will condemn it for those reasons, we strongly believe that this title...
Game of the Year Best PS5, PS4 Indie Game of 2021
Treasure trove
Every year sees the release of hundreds of indie games on PlayStation 5 and PS4, but there are always some true standouts. Of course, 2021 has been no different, with many excellent smaller titles hitting both consoles. The below are our picks for the best indie games of the year, with the Push Square editorial team selecting their...
Game of the Year #9 - Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Case closed
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut isn't for everyone. Its unapologetically mature storytelling and methodical pacing can make it a tough nut to crack, but with a bit of patience and willingness to let yourself get lost in its dilapidated world, you'll find a gripping RPG. Playing as a middle aged detective who's suffering from a severe case...
Game of the Year #10 - Guilty Gear Strive
Blame the beasts
Games that push an entire genre forward are a rarity, but that's what Guilty Gear Strive has done for fighting games. It may not be as mainstream as Street Fighter, Tekken, or Mortal Kombat, but in its visuals and its online netcode, Strive has set the bar for all future brawlers. Developer Arc System Works has been hitting home...
Poll What Is Your PS5, PS4 Game of the Year 2021?
Vote now
It's time once again for our Game of the Year celebration. As has become tradition here at Push Square, we're filling out the holidays with a range of content that covers the best PlayStation games of the last 12 months — and it all starts with our community Game of the Year poll. It's simple, really. All you have to do is look at the...
Poll Are You Happy With Your PS Plus Games for December 2021?
Plus or minus?
Given that December's PlayStation Plus lineup was leaked more than a week before the official announcement, we had assumed that there wouldn't be much drama surrounding the selection. But boy oh boy, we couldn't have been more wrong. In fact, this has turned out to be one of the most controversial PS Plus updates of 2021. In case you...
Poll Did You Buy Battlefield 2042?
Out here in the Battlefield
'Tis the season for first-person shooters, and EA's back with another Battlefield this year. Battlefield 2042 has divided opinion during its pre-launch phase, both with critics and consumers. There's a general sense that 2042 has been rushed to market, but EA and developer DICE have promised long-term support. The game's...
Poll What Game Will Win at The Game Awards 2021?
Cast your vote
You've seen the (questionable) nominations for The Game Awards 2021, and with the show now just a few weeks away, what game do you think will win the coveted Game of the Year prize on 8th December 2021? This is a year without an obvious winner as the quality of titles released has been fairly consistent, but without a clear standout,...
Here we go again
It's being torn to shreds on Metacritic and its unbelievable bugs have already spawned countless internet memes, but we have no doubt that GTA Trilogy will pull some serious sales numbers. Whether the game deserves commercial success if obviously up for debate (the developer has at least
Poll Did You Buy Skyrim Anniversary Edition?
Good to see you, traveller
Look, you're probably sick of reading about Skyrim Anniversary Edition, and frankly, we're a bit sick of writing about it. But come on, we do these 'did you buy' polls for every big release — and it doesn't get much bigger than a new version of Skyrim! Anniversary Edition arrives ten whole years after Skyrim's original...
Poll What's Your Favourite PS5 Game So Far?
Share your top three
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...
Poll 10 Years Later, What Are Your Thoughts on Skyrim?
Dragonborn for this
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is officially ten years old. How time flies, eh? The open world role-playing game first released for the PlayStation 3 on the 11th November, 2011 — and boy was it a mess. Skyrim ran extremely poorly on Sony's old console — even after it had received a boatload of updates — but its poor technical...
Poll Rate Your Favourite PS3 Games
Help determine Push Square's best PS3 games list
Alright everyone, we need your help. In a move that we haven't at all stolen from our dearest friends over at Nintendo Life, we've decided to rank the best PlayStation 3 games. With Sony's last-last-gen console having its 15th anniversary on the 17th November (in North America, at least!), this seems...
Poll Did You Buy Call of Duty: Vanguard?
On the front lines
Another year, another Call of Duty — but the juggernaut franchise is in a slightly strange spot these days. Alongside its annual releases, Call of Duty now exists as a permanent and ever-growing gaming fixture thanks to Warzone and its immensely popular battle royale gameplay. We're left wondering where games like the newly...
Poll Last Chance to Rate the Best GTA Games on PlayStation
The big score
GTA, or Grand Theft Auto, is arguably the biggest brand in gaming, rivalling juggernauts like Super Mario and Call of Duty. Originally created for the PlayStation and PC in 1997 by Scottish developer DMA Design – which would go on to rebrand itself as Rockstar North – the series has shipped more than 350 million units over the...
Poll Are You Happy With Your PS Plus Games for November 2021?
Plus or minus?
Last weekend came and went without a PlayStation Plus leak, and for the fist time in five months, we thought that Sony had finally managed to keep a secret. It was all looking good until Wednesday morning, when a belated leak made its way online — and guess what? It was, once again, 100 per cent correct. The party was spoiled,...
Poll Did You Buy Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy?
Getting the gang together
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. The licensed action game is Square Enix's second attempt at adapting a beloved Marvel property, but unlike the ill-fated Marvel's Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy has been very well received right off the bat. "For as much uncertainty there...
Poll Your Last Chance to Vote for the Best Assassin's Creed Game on PlayStation
Live by the hidden blade
What's the best Assassin's Creed game? This is a question that we refuse to answer alone, and so we're going to enlist your help to create an official Push Square list, ranking every mainline Assassin's Creed title on PlayStation platforms. All you need to do is head into the ratings system below and give a review score to...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Deathloop?
Breaking the loop
It's been a whole month since the release of Deathloop on PlayStation 5. Dishonored developer Arkane's newest non-linear excursion was a hit with critics, attracting high review scores across the board. We gave it a very respectable 8/10 in our Deathloop PS5 review, in which we concluded: "Few games have the confidence and swagger...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Tales of Arise?
Risen
It's been a whole month since the launch of Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco's long running role-playing series. The game went down extremely well with critics, and it now sits as one of the highest rated titles of 2021. Needless to say, Tales of Arise has been a big hit for the Japanese publisher. It sold over one million...
Back behind the wheel
The latest entry in Ubisoft's first-person chaos simulation series is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Far Cry 6 has released to mostly positive critic reviews, and it's already proving popular on content-sharing sites like YouTube and Twitch. It's reasonably safe to assume that the French publisher has another hit...
Poll Your Last Chance to Vote For the Best Final Fantasy Game on PlayStation
The Final Fantasy
What's the best Final Fantasy game to ever grace a PlayStation console? This is the (rather demanding) question that we want you to answer. Below, you'll find a list of Final Fantasy games, both mainline and spinoff. We need you to rate the games that you've played, and these ratings will feed into a Final Fantasy ranking article...
Poll Are You Happy With Your PS Plus Games for October 2021?
Plus or minus?
Do you remember a time when the monthly PS Plus games weren't leaked days in advance of the official reveal? The subscription service's offerings have been accurately outed five months in a row, with October's selection being correctly called last weekend. When will it end? To recap, October's lineup includes Hell Let Loose (PS5),...
Poll Did You Buy Kena: Bridge of Spirits?
D'ya Kena?
Kena: Bridge of Spirits first caught all of our eyes at Sony's PlayStation 5 reveal event. Developer Ember Lab's biggest ever project, it's an incredibly pretty platforming adventure, with some surprisingly intense combat thrown in for good measure. Given that it was initially a title meant to help sell the PS5, we imagine that a lot of...
Poll Did You Buy Lost Judgment?
Lost and found
The anticipated sequel to the excellent Judgment is here, and would you believe that it's actually pretty good? It's almost as though developer RGG Studio can do no wrong, but we must admit that we're beginning to burn out on Yakuza-style games. It's easy to forget that we've already had the PS5 versions of both the aforementioned...
Poll Did You Buy Death Stranding Director's Cut?
BB's back
It's been roughly two years since the release of the original Death Stranding, and Hideo Kojima's mad game about dead sea creatures and all that is still startlingly unique. In fact, the only game like Death Stranding is Death Stranding Director's Cut — the newly launched PlayStation 5 re-release that includes additional content, like...
Poll Do You Want Even More PS5 Marvel Games from Sony?
Superhero domination
In the space of just a few years, Sony has managed to make its PlayStation consoles the destination for titles based on Marvel properties. Sure, Marvel's Avengers and the upcoming Marvel's Midnight Suns and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy are all multi-platform, but if you want to play everything the company currently has in...
The loop is finally broken
Deathloop is finally here, and you know what that means. Yep, we'll never have to sit through another Deathloop trailer during a PlayStation event! Cause for celebration, to be sure. Okay, snark aside, seeing Deathloop appear at what felt like every showcase over the last year or so seemed like overkill — to the point...
Poll Did You Buy Tales of Arise?
A new Tale to tell
Tales of Arise is here, and we think it's very, very good. The Japanese role-playing game went above and beyond our expectations, and we awarded it a 9/10 in our Tales of Arise PS5 review. Safe to say we recommend it, but as is always the case with a big release, we want to know whether you've actually bought a copy. Going by the...
Poll Are You Happy With Your PS Plus Games for September 2021?
Plus or minus
September's PlayStation Plus games have been made official, and we've had longer than usual to gather our thoughts on this month's lineup. Indeed, the selection was correctly leaked days before the big announcement. It split opinion then, but what about now? That's what we're here to find out. To recap, the PS Plus games for September...
Poll What Do You Think of the New Saints Row?
Saints assemble
One of the biggest stories of the past week has involved Saints Row. The sandbox series is returning in February next year, with a brand new game having been announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2021. This thing's a full reboot: different characters, a new setting, and no obvious ties to the old Saints Row games. It's a fresh...
Poll Did You Buy Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut?
Iki Island awaits
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut is out right now on both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 — but are you joining Jin Sakai on his new adventure? In case you don't know, Director's Cut includes the Iki Island expansion, which, as stated in our Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut review, we absolutely love. It whisks our samurai hero...
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for August 2021?
Plus or minus?
Another month, another PS Plus games reveal. August's lineup was actually leaked days before the official announcement, by none other than Sony itself. As such, it feels like people have had additional time to moan and groan about what is, in all fairness, a pretty dull month. Well, at first glance, anyway. So, just to recap,...
Poll Should Sony Do More PS5 Director's Cuts?
Like Death Stranding and Ghost of Tsushima
It's starting to look like 'Director's Cuts' could be a new product line for Sony — a way to re-release and revitalise interest in existing titles, seemingly going beyond what you'd get from a PlayStation 5 upgrade patch, or something similar. Death Stranding Director's Cut was the first to be announced,...
Poll Ghost of Tsushima Released One Year Ago Today - What Review Score Would You Give It Now?
Second chance
Ghost of Tsushima released for PlayStation 4 on the 17th July 2020, meaning that it's one year old today. The PS4 exclusive was extremely well received by both players and critics, and went on to be a commercial blockbuster for Sony. Developer Sucker Punch also did a great job of supporting the game once it was on the market, providing...
Poll Does Sony Need a Big PS5 Showcase This Summer?
Show and tell
We're almost halfway through July, and there's still no sign of Sony's long-rumoured, E3-esque summer showcase. To be fair, the company has never teased or alluded to any big event — it's just that we're now eight months removed from the PlayStation 5's release, and there's still no real roadmap. Speculation is often derived from...
Poll Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Games for July 2021?
Plus or minus?
After not one, but two different leaks, the PlayStation Plus lineup for July 2021 was confirmed at the usual time earlier this week. It was the second leak that turned out to be legit, with A Plague Tale: Innocence on PS5 joined by Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and WWE 2K Battlegrounds on PS4. Right off the bat, we're going to point out...
Feature What Are Your Most Anticipated PS5, PS4 Games for the Rest of 2021?
A big six months coming up
Can you believe that we're halfway through 2021 already? It's crazy to think that the PlayStation 5 has been on the market for over seven months now, although we use that term loosely given that Sony's current-gen console is still so hard to find. In any case, we here at Push Square are largely in agreement that it's been...
