Narrowing down the best PS4 games is no mean feat, given there are over 3000 to choose from. However, we’ve taken on the task and selected 20 of the finest video game experiences you can find on the PlayStation 4, spanning a variety of genres. There are some obvious picks here, others a little less so, but we have played, finished, and reviewed all of these to ensure it is the definitive list. And now that the PS5 is well into its lifespan in the ninth generation of consoles, and the PS4 is almost at the end of its tenure, we can be fairly certain there aren’t any more surprises to add to this list in the future.
So if you’re looking to catch up on your backlog and play some outstanding video games you may have missed the first time around, this list is for you: here are the 20 best PS4 games of all time:
A delicious nightmare of a game, Bloodborne sees FromSoft transpose its formula to a richly dark Lovecraftian world, full of horror and splendour in equal measure. It’s a close cousin of the Dark Souls series, but with its own flavour; action is more aggressive, doing away with the turtling that many players relied on, while the story it spins is more explicit.