Top 30 PlayStation 5 Games That You Need To Know In August 2023
We review the 30 best PlayStation 5 games, of all genres, both exclusive and from third-party companies, and also attend to remakes and reissues.
Now that PlayStation 5 has been on the market for more than two years, it is a good time to look back to highlight the essential works that have been released in all this time. There are games for all tastes, from the most frenetic action games to the most restful adventures, and also many reissues of games from previous generations that find this platform the ideal place to shine again. You can see the list of the 30 best PS5 games below:
30. Moss: Book II
One of the great novelties of this year for PS5 has been the arrival of virtual reality through PlayStation VR2, an advanced device that has already left us with a few great games. Among them, is Moss and Moss: Book II, possibly the best thing we can play right now in VR on PS5. Especially the second one, a delicious fantasy adventure starring a little mouse in which we have to crush enemies and solve a lot of puzzles in the detailed environments, which are fascinating to look at thanks to virtual reality, through an aerial perspective, as if we were observing a beautiful diorama. If you get hold of a PSVR2 in the next few weeks, you have to play it.
29. Tales of Arise
Bandai Namco Studios ‘ action RPG has revolutionized the Tales of Formula without removing it from its origins, just by considerably increasing its production values. Tales of Arise tells us a plot with themes and structure that we have seen over and over again, but that continues to work: the yoke that the powerful exercise against the disunited people. Throughout different locations with plots that look at that central theme from different perspectives, we immerse ourselves in a visually beautiful JRPG that shines, above all, for a dynamic and colourful real-time combat system that will delight fans of the game.
28. Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Big platform adventures aren’t limited to Nintendo machines, and Sackboy: Big Adventure is a case in point. With a perspective reminiscent of Super Mario 3D World, Sumo Digital’s cooperative game for up to four players picks up the protagonist of the LittleBigPlanet saga to offer a hilarious, well-designed, imaginative title, capable of surprising every few moments and with levels musicals that leave you speechless. And it is also very beautiful.
27. Hogwarts Legacy
It is a dream come true for any Harry Potter fan. With the formula of manual action RPG (levels, equipment, and a map full of activities), here we can create a wizard or a witch in our image and likeness, who will live a great adventure in the Magical World that revolves around a forbidden type of magic. But there’s so much more to the main story: wizards to help, friendships to forge, puzzles to solve, dungeons to explore, and of course, a vast open world to roam. The Scottish Highlands are beautiful, but the spectacular recreation of Hogwarts takes the cake: Not only will we feel like students of the College of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but we will be in a version of it with more detail and life than we have ever seen in the movies or imagined when reading the books.
26. Deathloop
Arkane Studios, the creators of Dishonored and Prey, have once again given the immersive simulator genre a twist with Deathloop. The title preserves the essence of the genre: a masterful design of levels and powers that allows the proposed objective to be approached in many different ways. In this case, that goal is to wipe out the eight Visionaries of Blackreef, a mysterious island full of retro-futuristic junk in a single day, trapped in a time loop. This premise is where the aforementioned twist is inserted: it has a roguelike structure that leads us to explore the four phases at four different times of the day to put the pieces together on our imaginary detective board. Thus, the goal is to discover the actions to perform and in what order to carry out a perfect run that allows us to kill the eight bosses in succession before the loop restarts.
25. Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut
Ghost of Tsushima, from the creators of the infamous saga, is one of the most critically and publicly received recent adventures from PlayStation Studios. Its recreation of feudal Japan, the beauty of the island of Tsushima, and a classic but absorbing structure won the attention of many for dozens of hours. This Director’s Cut slightly improves the graphics of an already great title, adds 3D audio, and implements DualSense haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, but its biggest addition is an expansion that takes us to the island of Iki ., a place with its own identity where we can lose ourselves for even more hours and where we are told a very careful and well-told story.
24. Guilty Gear -Strive-
Arc System Works has been, for years, a reference in the most hardcore fighting games with their BlazBlue and Guilty Gear series. However, a few years ago they managed to reach the general public with the excellent Dragon Ball FighterZ. And Guilty Gear: Strive abounds in that idea, offering at the same time a very deep, accessible fighting game that on the screen is little less than watching a high-quality anime. Although it can be blamed for the fact that the single-player content is not as extensive as you would like (although the story mode is very good and has been expanded with another plot), its bombproof gameplay and an online mode that works as it should give the game for a while.
23. A Plague Tale: Requiem
If we talk about games that bring out the technical possibilities of the new generation of consoles, we cannot forget A Plague Tale: Requiem, an impressive historical adventure with supernatural twists; a mixture that gives us unforgettable postcards that have become one of the highest expressions of good graphics today. Of course, this is not the only thing to note about the game: a deep and dramatic adventure is narrated in the background, with characters that exude charisma and with whom it is easy to empathize, stimulating situations and several alternative endings that depend on our actions during the story.
22. Gran Turismo 7
The king of driving simulators is back, and this time with a much more traditional experience than Gran Turismo Sport, focused on the online experience (although the online mode of Gran Turismo 7 is, in its essence and content, a Sport 2.0 ). Polyphony Digital presents us with a driving game that exudes love, affection and care not for the competition, but for the cars themselves. The tone of the game is perfectly marked by its main mode, GT Café, a quiet cafeteria where we choose menus with different tests that unlock new vehicles by completing them while disclosing the history of cars and their manufacturers. In addition, the title is an audiovisual spectacle, it is one of the titles that best takes advantage of the PS5 DualSense and is full of content to keep you playing for months and months.
21. Sifu
Sloclap, the creators of the innovative but somewhat limited online fighting game Absolver, sign Sifu to a great game as long as one is willing to challenge and repeat. If that barrier is overcome, this adventure with a structure halfway between roguelike and rogue-lite and inspired by martial arts cinema will catch you. It is, without a doubt, the game that has best captured the sensation of being an agile fighter, capable of facing almost a dozen enemies at the same time, of interacting with the elements of the setting that surround him, and of fighting against mastodons several more times. bigger than him. He is a kind of modernisation of the self against the neighbourhood, with a staging full of personality and with a very original playable premise: after each death, the protagonist ages, and if he ends up dying, you have to start from the beginning.
20. Dead Space Remake
The USG Ishimura has never been so terrifying. The creators of Star Wars: Squadrons have wisely adapted one of the best modern survival horror games to current technologies, respecting the original Dead Space and addressing the legacy it left behind. Thus, Dead Space Remake continues to be a terrifying adventure where the engineer Isaac Clarke must escape from a huge spaceship, a place dominated by disturbing necromorphs, who have to be dispatched by cutting off their limbs with tools that serve as weapons.
The gameplay, and the story (except for the fact that the protagonist is no longer silent and certain details that connect him to the sequels), are still intact, but the power of the new machines allows to improve the experience: connecting the entire ship instead to separate it by phases, and above all, using the detail and the spectacular lighting to scare even more and to create moments of darkness, light and shadow that influence the way you play.
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19. Persona 5 Royal
If the original was already essential, this Persona 5 Royal goes one step further: it is the refinement of one of the greatest masterpieces, not only of JRPGs but of video games in general. It is a broad, deep, fun and fresh title that now comes with a Spanish translation included. Undoubtedly, the best way to fully immerse yourself in the adventures of Joker and the Phantom Thieves, which are so captivating that we won’t notice the many hours we’re going to end up spending on them.
18. Death Stranding Director’s Cut
For some, an eccentricity. For others, one of the best blockbusters of the last decade. Death Stranding is the latest game from Kojima Productions. With a dose of surrealism, long cinematic scenes, eccentric and unforgettable characters, and a cast full of Hollywood stars, it tells a story in a post-apocalyptic United States where people live isolated in underground bunkers.
Sam Porter Bridges (Norman Reedus) is a delivery man who crosses the dangerous wasteland to deliver packages, and in his shoes, we put ourselves on a mission to reconnect the North American country. Thus, innovative gameplay is offered that twists and makes something so intrinsic to the video game like walking a lot of fun, although of course with a challenging touch and with an online mode just as revolutionary as the proposal. This Director’s Cut slightly improves an audiovisual section that was already incredible in the original, adds a short side mission that is worth playing just for its ending, and certain extras that are welcome.
17. It Takes Two
Hazelight, the studio responsible for Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and A Way Out, once again revolutionizes the cooperative with It Takes Two, a platform adventure that can only be played in a cooperative for two people in online or local mode (we recommend the latter option). It tells us the story, always humorous, about a married couple on the brink of divorce who find themselves transformed into wax dolls after their daughter’s tantrum and must recover their human form. With this premise, a title with an immense variety of situations is shaped, where something new is always happening and which takes the concept of the cooperative further, forcing constant communication and synchronization between the two players, who carry out well-differentiated actions depending on who they control.
16. Humanity
It could almost be said that Humanity is an updated version of Lemmings with elements from other puzzle games, but if Enhance’s game stands out for anything, it’s its remarkable personality and unique presentation that captivates you from the start. The levels are very well designed, and it also offers options to create and share online. All this results in a fun and complete title that fans of the genre should at least try.
15. The Last of Us Part I
The first The Last of Us is an unprecedented masterpiece, so to be able to replay it created from the ground up for a next-gen console like PS5 is cause for celebration. In this remake, we revive the same story of Joel and Ellie that we were able to play on PS3, although with a complete redesign of its graphic section, combined with notable tweaks in the gameplay and even in its level design. The Last of Us Part I is an ideal work both for those who played the original back in the day and want to venture into it again and for those who want to fully enter this essential saga.
14. Returnal
Housemarque, the creators of such prestigious indie arcade games as Resogun and Nex Machina, signed Returnal to their first blockbuster. It is a third-person shooter that combines the experience of the studio with bullet hell and the structure of a roguelike, all combined with a story that takes Selena, the protagonist, to a strange alien planet with different ecosystems and strange enemies and where his home of Earth is, which is explored in haunting first-person exploration sequences. It is one of those precise titles, in which it’s a pleasure to move, that fills the screen with lights and colour, that makes our hearts race and where one dies many, many times, but always in a fair way.
13. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Insomniac Games’ award-winning and blockbuster Spider-Man continues in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, a more contained sequel adventure centring entirely on Miles Morales, who will co-star with Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man 2. Although the title does not greatly innovate compared to its predecessor, the plot that it presents us with is well-written and builds a modern, complex superhero with whom it is easy to empathize. In addition, Moles Morales has unique abilities compared to Parker, which is why he varies a combat system that is still hilarious.
12. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition
It’s been a while, but the next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is now available on PS5. Plus, it’s free for those who already own the game on PS4, so there’s no excuse! The improvements included in this kind of remastering are notable: not only have new graphics been implemented, with better textures and rendering, but there are also playable additions and quality-of-life tweaks, such as a new camera, interface changes that allow you to enjoy more of the game’s landscapes and new skill selection systems. As if that were not enough, new free content has also been included, such as the option to get an armour set inspired by the Netflix series. It’s a good time to return (or play for the first time) the latest adventure of Geralt de Rivia.
11. Astro’s Playroom
One of the best PS5 games is included on all consoles as one more program. And despite what it might seem, it goes far beyond being a technical demo. Astro’s Playroom is meant to demonstrate the console’s capabilities: virtually non-existent loading times, challenge cards, DualSense features, etc. And also to pay homage to the history of PlayStation, as hardware, and to the characters and sagas that are associated with the brand. Although it does all of that correctly, it also manages to be a varied and short 3D platformer, but brilliantly designed and with a scoring system that stings us and keeps us coming back again and again.
10. Final Fantasy XVI
Since the seventh instalment, Final Fantasy has always been a saga closely linked to the PlayStation consoles, and perhaps because of them, Sony put all the meat on the grill so that Final Fantasy XVI is, for now, an exclusive game for PS5, on all platforms. , something that at this stage of the generation few titles can say. In addition to this, the Square Enix saga has taken a decided and controversial turn towards action, becoming one of the most spectacular and epic games of the year. Among its many virtues, we could highlight a dazzling graphic section, a combat system that is fun and satisfying like few others, jaw-dropping bosses, an enormously attractive, interesting and well-built world, one of the best protagonists of the saga and an unforgettable soundtrack. Without a doubt, one of those games that you have to enjoy yes or yes if you have a PS5.
9. Diablo IV
After years of waiting, Diablo 4 has arrived with great force and on this occasion lives up to expectations, just what such a mythical saga deserved, to return to the top and show why it is so important and loved. Thanks to the gameplay as addictive as always and a gloomy, dark and bloody tone as the fans requested, with a very complete campaign and a lot of secondary content, especially its end game, to the PVP and, in the future, to the seasons with new content that it will have us trapped in the Eternal War of Sanctuary. Also, if you are lucky enough to enjoy it with friends, either online or from the same sofa, it is pure vice.
8. Street Fighter 6
Street Fighter 6 is an impeccably playable game, with fun, deep and accessible gameplay, which Capcom has also managed to surround with a multitude of quality content. It has a wide variety of charismatic and different characters, and its online infrastructure and network code are enviable within the genre, offering a quantity and variety of content and options that seek to satisfy both beginners and veteran and competitive players. Whatever your style of play, you will likely find something to suit you in this game, whether it is to enjoy alone or in company, something that not many games can boast. Surely an outstanding fighting game.
7. Resident Evil 4 Remake
Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 3 Remake reworked two survival horror classics to fit the revamped gameplay formula and cohesive narrative that Capcom began building with Resident Evil 7. But what to do with Resident Evil 4, a title that was a turnaround for the saga and a revolution in action adventure? Improve it without changing it.
Thus, Resident Evil 4 Remake retains the hectic pace of the original, introduces playable improvements (of course, you can walk and shoot), poses that scenario of an isolated town in northern Spain as a connected whole, it motivates exploration with new side missions, rebuilds the levels to adapt them to the new possibilities of Leon S. Kennedy, reinvents both Ashley’s behaviour and the interesting and terrifying sections that she stars in, and of course, revamps her section artistic and technical to offer a more macabre world and characters that overflow with expressiveness. In short, one of the best games in history, even better.
6. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Final Fantasy VII Remake is one of the best remakes ever made. Square Enix’s JRPG adapts a portion of the original work, until the release of Midgar, but doing more than just a simple reinvention of the classic: it’s its own game. Of course, seeing the 1997 characters and environments with modern and generally overwhelming graphics is amazing, but even more so is a new, agile and strategic combat system, how the story is self-aware that another Final Fantasy VII exists, the deepening of previously undeveloped characters and the interesting expansion of the plot. All of that, with slight visual enhancements, is in Intergrade., which also expands the PS4 game with a DLC dedicated to Yuffie, who is difficult not to like, who stars in some great sequence and who gives a twist to the confrontations.
5. Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart
Ratchet’s most ambitious adventure is also the most visually spectacular game that can be found right now on PlayStation 5. That Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart is a visual derangement that makes us long teeth imagining what we can achieve Seeing on our screens throughout the generation does not mean that you neglect the most important thing. Quite the opposite. The adventure of Ratchet, Clank and Rivet, who co-stars in the title, is a shooting game full of imaginative weapons, and mechanical variations that bring freshness and situations with a lot of showmanship. We have seen the story he tells us a thousand and one times, but he does it in an emotional, fun and funny way that catches us until we see the credits.
4. Horizon Forbidden West
Aloy’s post-apocalyptic adventure that began in Horizon Zero Dawn continues in Horizon Forbidden West, which takes us to the Forbidden West that gives this open-world adventure its name. But the sequel goes far beyond exploring unknown areas of her universe, getting to know the protagonist better, and delving into the interesting background of how the cataclysm that caused the dominance of the machines occurred. The Guerrilla game improves on everything from its predecessor: in the narrative, in the combat, in the graphics and the production values in general. But what gives it this place on the list is that, despite being an open world with a traditional structure, all its contents are varied, interesting, stimulating and fun.
3. Demon’s Souls Remake
We were used to the good work of Bluepoint Games. The Shadow of the Colossus remake was highly praised, and the remasters of Team ICO games and early God of War instalments are very good. But with Demon’s Souls Remake, we were blown away. Keeping the base of the FromSoftware cult classic unchanged, they made the first of the Soulsborne a more than enjoyable title in 2020 thanks to a brilliant audiovisual section and the use of most of the PS5 functions, which in cases such as non-existent loading times they make the experience (in which we will die many times)much nicer than on PS3.
2. God of War Ragnarok
Kratos’ adventure through the Nordic lands comes to an end in God of War: Ragnarok, a sequel that keeps the level of the previous title at bay by providing a truly remarkable narrative depth and, of course, much more breadth in the playable systems, both in terms of combat and puzzles. The situations that we live with the god of war and his son Atreus are overwhelming, and exciting and are up to the closing of a series that has become part of the Olympus of video games.
1 Elden Ring
This is much more than the adaptation of the FromSoftware formula to the open world. It is one of the best games ever. Intermediate Lands is an endless and tremendously dense setting, full of dungeons, levels that will remain in our memories as the best Souls settings, with secrets hidden everywhere, and with the capacity to surprise at every step. All this is complemented by a deeper, more dynamic, fun and also accessible combat system., allowing a wide variety of play styles without detracting from that great feeling of overcoming a challenge that seemed impossible. And for those who want to investigate and pay attention to details, with a plot background (again, with the usual style of fragmented narrative) that is at the best level of the titles directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki.
