We’ve compiled a list of all the PS5 games confirmed for Sony’s next-generation console – and those we hope to see.
Sony’s next-gen console has arrived, but which PS5 games will you play on the system first? The PS5’s launch library of titles includes a diverse mix of superb exclusives and big third-party hits, so there’s plenty of choice, even at this early stage. While most people will inevitably be drawn to the big PlayStation exclusives, like the punishingly difficult Demon’s Souls, superhero antics of Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales, or four-player fun of Sackboy: A Big Adventure, PS4 backwards compatibility ensures that you can revisit older games that you may have missed as well. You can finally buy a PS5 in the US, and now buy PS5 UK as it’s thankfully launched – so it’s out around the world. We’re checking all the retailers for stock updates to help you find the illusive next-gen system. You may even find more chances in Black Friday PS5 deals but we’re also keeping an eye on future PS5 bundles as well. The PS5 also ships with a pre-installed game called Astro’s Playroom, which showcases the possibilities of the new DualSense controller in a wonderful way. If you’re waiting for something new, though, the extended launch window promises some seriously exciting games. Sony has confirmed that we’ll see Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Gran Turismo 7 during the first half of 2021, with Horizon Forbidden West following soon after. In terms of third-party support, the PS5 boasts two timed console exclusives in the form of Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo, and you can enjoy Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla during launch week. The Harry Potter-inspired Hogwarts Legacy and The Lord of the Rings: Gollum are also due next year, so the future is already looking bright for Sony’s next-gen gaming console. There’s plenty of competition for Sony’s line up of PS5 games, of course, especially since Microsoft has unveiled a huge number of new Xbox Series X games and exclusives, and we were impressed by both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in our reviews. With many of those games coming to Xbox Game Pass too, it’s going to be a real fight this generation. Below, we’ve compiled an extensive list of all the PS5 games that have been confirmed so far, including both first and third-party titles, alongside PS5 games that we expect (and hope) to see in the future. See the full list of PS5 games we know about so far below. Newly announced at the PS5 reveal event, Final Fantasy 16 will bring the storied franchise onto the next generation as a PS5 console exclusive (it’ll also come out on PC). Based on the trailer we saw during the event, the game will return to the more medieval overtones that we saw back on Final Fantasy 11 about 20 years ago. The combat, however, looks like a combination of the real-time battles of Final Fantasy 15 and the even more recent Final Fantasy 7 Remake that came out earlier this year. We don’t expect to see it any time soon, but we’ll be anxiously awaiting the next Final Fantasy game when it arrives… well, hopefully in the next decade. One of the biggest surprises at the PS5 event was Hogwarts Legacy – an action game set in the Harry Potter universe. The game is set during the late 1800s, making it well before Voldemort’s rise and the murder of Lily and James Potter, and follows what appears to be a custom-created character as they survive Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The game is due out in 2021, so expect to hear more about this magical journey soon. At the very end of the PS5 price reveal event, Sony announced the next God of War game from Santa Monica Studios: God of War Ragnarok. Set after the events of the God of War reboot that came out in 2018, the next game in the franchise continues the path Kratos has blazed for himself up in the frozen north. The short teaser trailer doesn’t give us much to go off of – it’s basically just the Omega symbol with some runes carved into it – but it does have a release window attached: 2021. The next chapter in the Assassin’s Creed series takes place in the Viking age and is available on PS5. It runs at 4K resolution and targets 60fps on Sony’s console. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla sees players take on the role of Viking raider Eivor, who leads their clan from their native home of Norway to the shores of Dark Ages England – with a hope of settling for good. But resistance from the Saxons won’t exactly make it easy. This new Assassin’s Creed game leans more into RPG elements, allowing players to build and management settlements, raid towns for resources, form alliances and even customize their character. What’s more PS4 players can upgrade to the PS5 version of Valhalla for free. This is one PS5 game you won’t have to buy – it comes pre-loaded with the console and it’s absolutely fantastic. Astro, who you may remember from the ‘Playroom VR’ game on PS4 and Astrobot for PlayStation VR, is back and better than ever. A gorgeous platformer, Astro’s Playroom acts as a comprehensive showcase of the PS5 DualSense wireless controller. Developed by Mundfish, Atomic Heart is a first-person shooter set in an absurdly strange, alternate universe during the “high noon of the Soviet Union”. Playing as one of the Soviet government’s special agents, you’ll need to figure out just why your mission failed and why you’ve heard nothing from your superiors. Atomic Heart will be heading to PS5 and Xbox Series X, as well as current-gen consoles, though no release date has yet been given. Electronic Arts has confirmed that Battlefield 6 is coming to Xbox Series X and PS5 in 2021. Speaking to GameSpot, EA said that Battlefield 6 will be “targeting new innovation that will be enabled by next-gen platforms”. We’re still largely in the dark about what Battlefield 6 is about, and whether it’ll also be available on current-gen consoles, but we can’t wait to find out more. Borderlands 3 is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X, with players who already own the PS4 or Xbox One versions of the game being able to upgrade to the next-gen versions for free (which includes all your saves and content purchases). In addition, the next-gen versions will include new Vault Hunter skill trees, additional add-on content, vertical split-screen, and four-player local co-op. While 2K Games has teased that crossplay may also be on the way. Bugsnax is the innocent-looking PS5 game that takes cues from cutesy titles Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Octodad, with a snack-filled gameplay twist. There’s a good reason its graphics looks like Octodad: Dadliest Catch – it’s made by the developers behind the student-developed hit game. In Bugsnax, you play as (mostly) bipedal animals and critters that eat food favorites, like fruit and sausages – and oddly become those snacks. Arms will turn into hotdogs and hands will turn into strawberries. It sounds weird… and delicious. Bugsnax is the first PS5 game to be given away to PS Plus subscribers. As rumored, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is going to be the next instalment in the Call of Duty franchise and it will release on November 13 2020. It’ll support 120fps for super low-latency gameplay. Developed by Treyarch, Black Ops Cold War is set to be a direct sequel to the original Black Ops title from the same developer. The game’s single-player story will take players into the tense political atmosphere of the 80s, where they can expect to encounter familiar faces from history as well as the original Black Ops title as they hunt down a mysterious Soviet agent known as “Perseus”. At the moment, little is known about Black Ops Cold War’s multiplayer offering but it will have one and more information is coming in September, with details on traditional multiplayer and Zombies modes, as well as the battle royale Warzone, expected. When it launches in November, Black Ops Cold War will be available on current-gen consoles but next-gen releases on PS5 and Xbox Series X have been confirmed for “Holiday 2020”, with cross-platform and cross-generation support confirmed. Chivalry 2 is a multiplayer first-person hack n’ slash that sees players thrust into epic medieval battles where you can siege castles, unleash flurries of fiery arrows upon enemies and dominate in 64-player battlefields. Chivalry 2 has been confirmed for current-gen and next-gen consoles, with cross-play available across all platforms. Chorus is another game introduced during the Xbox Series X gameplay reveal video, but its official YouTube trailer confirmed it’s also coming to PS5 (and PS4). The futuristic starfighter shooting game follows Nara as she pilots her sentient ship Forsaken to destroy the cult she once belonged to. Wild! Its visuals evoke the moody red lighting of Control, but the combat feels a lot like Everspace and other arcade-style space shooters. Remedy Entertainment has confirmed its critically-acclaimed supernatural action-adventure, Control, is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X. We currently don’t know much more than that but the studio has teased we’ll find out more “at a later date” but those who purchase Control Ultimate Edition will get a free upgrade. Described as an “indie love letter to classic JRPG”, Cris Tales is a beautifully-drawn action-adventure that allows you to see the path, present and future simultaneously as you travel across a dark, fairy-tale world. CD Projekt Red has finally confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to PS5. Those who buy the PS4 version of the game will be able to play it on PS5 as soon as the next-gen console launches through backwards compatibility – with a free update upgrading the game’s visuals. In addition, the developer confirmed on Twitter that a “later upgrade to Cyberpunk 2077, taking full advantage of the next-gen hardware, will be available for free” sometime after launch. When Arkane Lyon’s Deathloop was unveiled at E3 2019, its stylized trailer showed players surviving on a chaotic island where everyone’s trying to kill you, over and over, as you try to escape a timeloop. But Sony’s PS5 gameplay reveal gave us a lot more insight and, well, gameplay: in Deathloop, you play Colt, enemy number one on the party island of Blackreef, and you’ll have to sneak and shoot your way past eliminating eight targets that keep you locked in a groovy, nightmarish Groundhog Day. Oh, and fend off an assassin coming to take you down….who might be controlled by another player. The game seems to be shaping up like an entry in Arkane’s lauded Dishonored series that’s been dipped in the 70s with some righteous Saul Bass style to boot. We. Are. Pumped. The game is set to release on May 21,2021 as a PS5 console exclusive. It’s been more than ten years since Demon’s Souls frustrated us to no end on PS3, and its ruthlessly difficult combat is back for the PS5 launch window. It’s been built from the ground up by Japan Studio and Bluepoint Games. You know, just in case you didn’t think 2020 was hard enough, this classic will make you want to throw that brand new PS5 DualSense controller across the room in anger. Bring on the incessant trial-and-error combat! Destiny 2 will be coming to PS5, Bungie has announced. Purchasing the new Beyond Light expansion on PS4 will allow you to download the PS5 version for free, too. With a new expansion coming in 2022, too, this suggests that a full Destiny 3 is still some years away. The game is set to be upgraded on December 9 to support 4K resolution at 60fps. An eclectic mish-mash of Twisted Metal and Fortnite, Destruction AllStars is the kind of bonkers, multiplayer action we can get on board with. Judging from the game’s explosive PS5 trailer, it appears that the battle starts with everyone inside high-powered vehicles, and then the action transitions into a frantic free-for-all as you try to stop your driver from being run over. Destruction AllStars will no longer launch alongside the PS5, but it will be given away as a PS Plus title in February 2021. If you missed the explosive Devil May Cry entry on PS4, you’ll get a second chance on PS5 with Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition. An out-and-out action game, DMC follows three interconnected protagonists (Dante and Nero among them) as they deal with a demonic invasion on earth. It was one of the best action games of the year in 2019 and it helps fill out the PS5’s stable of action games. The game features four modes: 4k/30fps with ray tracing,1080p/60fps with ray tracing,4K/60fps with no ray tracing, and a high frame rate 120Hz mode. The racing franchise returns with Dirt 5 (stylized DiRT 5), which was introduced during the Xbox Series X gameplay reveal video and shortly thereafter confirmed to be coming to PS5 (and PS4, actually). Dirt 5 showcases off-road racing in worldwide locations like previous games in the series and makes clever use of the DualSense’s adaptive triggers and haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of driving across rough and varied terrain. Doom Eternal is coming to PS5, publisher Bethesda has confirmed, and the publisher says that players who own the game will be able to upgrade for free when the new version becomes available. The PS4 version is also intended to be backwards compatible at launch. How the upgrade will be provided wasn’t detailed. We may not know much about Dragon Age 4 quite yet, but we do know it will come to next-gen consoles – though not until April 2022 at the earliest. Dustborn is a single-player, story-driven, action-adventure that sees you leading a band of misfits across a divided USA on a mission to transport a package. You’ll be able to get your hands on the game when it releases for PS5 (and PS4) in 2021. During an interview with Wccftech at E3 2019, developer Techland confirmed Dying Light 2 is set for next-gen consoles. “Techland always has an eye on the latest new toys!” Techland’s chief technology officer, Pawel Rohleder, said. “To be more specific – yes, the plan since the beginning of production has been to make Dying Light 2 a cross-generation title.” Far Cry 6 is officially coming to PS5, Ubisoft has confirmed. The game will target 4K resolution at 60fps. Far Cry 6 takes place in a “tropical paradise frozen in time” called Yara. Yara is controller by dictator Anton Castillo (played by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito), who aims to restore the paradise to glory with help from his son, Diego – through any means necessary. However, a revolution is taking place in Yara which aims to take down Castillo. Players take on the role of protagonist Danny, a revolutionist in the fight against Castillo. Shocking no one, EA Sports’ FIFA 21 is coming to PS5. As well as looking nicer, expect faster loading times and smart use of the DualSense controller’s haptic feedback feature. EA’s also boasting of ‘deferred lighting and rendering’ for extra realism. The game will be upgraded for PS5 on December 9. PS5 fans will get a taste of horror and suspense when the new Five Nights at Freddy’s game lands on Sony’s next-gen console. We don’t know a ton about how the game fits within the Chuck E. Cheese-inspired horror world of Five Nights at Freddy’s, but if the trailer is anything to go off of, it looks frightening as hell. Fortnite was confirmed for PS5 in May 2020.
