Curated playlist

PlayStation 5 games

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy OriginIn Stranger of Paradise, Jack's party are agents sent repeatedly from another world.
Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark KnightLego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, a 2026 game from Traveller's Tales, lets players control only seven characters. Earlier Lego games let them swap between hundreds. The studio shrank the roster while building the biggest Gotham City…
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred HeroesEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes passed $500,000 on Kickstarter in just three to four hours.
Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionKonami pulled two Metal Gear Solid games from digital stores in November 2021. Expired licenses were the reason given.
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake EaterMetal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater sends a soldier into the Soviet jungle in 1964, using a game that first appeared in 2004. It is a 2025 stealth action-adventure from Konami, rebuilt from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the first…
Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)In Silent Hill 2, a man gets a letter from his wife, who died three years earlier. He goes to Silent Hill, Maine.
Lineage WLineage W was called "the final Lineage" before anyone had played it. Estimates put it at an NCSoft first-day record.
Resident Evil 3 (2020 video game)Resident Evil 3 is a horror game from Capcom, released in 2020, in which a former police officer named Jill Valentine tries to get out of a city full of zombies. She is not simply fleeing. Something was built to find her, and it keeps…
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's EdgeIn Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, you play a droid mechanic who crash lands on Batuu.
Hades IIHades II arrived without warning on the 5th of May 2024, and a rival studio rearranged its calendar because of it. Evil Empire had planned to release The Rogue Prince of Persia on the 14th of May. It pushed the launch to later that month…
Red Dead RedemptionRed Dead Redemption is a 2010 Western from Rockstar San Diego, and it opens with a man who has run out of choices. In 1911, federal agents take the wife and son of a former outlaw named John Marston. The price of their freedom is his skill…
Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)Resident Evil 2, the 2019 survival horror game from Capcom, begins on the night of the 29th of September 1998. A rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy is heading for Raccoon City to start his first shift. A college student named…
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VIICrisis Core: Final Fantasy VII explains a death that fans of the 1997 game already knew.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022 video game)The final scene of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II belongs to a text message. A Russian terrorist cell is preparing to hijack a plane when a message arrives from Vladimir Makarov. His instruction is oddly specific: nobody is to speak…
Resident Evil RequiemResident Evil Requiem sold five million copies in its first five days, which made it the fastest-selling game in the long-running Resident Evil series. Capcom released it on the 27th of February 2026, and critics greeted it warmly. It is…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023 video game)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III reached its audience first as a phone number. In August 2023, Activision shared the number on social media. Players who agreed to a few terms began receiving anonymous messages, such as "we need someone…
Grand Theft Auto VThree days after Grand Theft Auto V reached stores in September 2013, it had passed one billion dollars in sales. No entertainment product in history had reached that mark faster. The game came from Rockstar North and was published by…
Quake (video game)Only one developer came in to upload Quake on launch day. That was John Romero, who left id Software soon after.
The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimA modder made Falskaar for Skyrim as a job application to Bethesda. Bungie hired him instead.
007 First Light007 First Light sold 1.5 million units within the first day of release. That is a loud return for James Bond on the games shelf after an extended hiatus. The action-adventure game comes from IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman…
ValorantValorant, a free-to-play shooter from Riot Games, pulled in 1.73 million concurrent viewers on Twitch during the first day of its beta in April 2020. That made it the second most-watched game the platform had ever seen at one moment. Only…
Five Nights at Freddy'sFive Nights at Freddy's, known to fans as FNaF, asks its players for one thing: stay alive from midnight until 6 a.m. in a pizza restaurant after closing time. Scott Cawthon created the series, and it has grown from video games into…
The Last of Us Part IThe Last of Us Part I, released in 2022, rebuilt almost everything about a famous game and left its story completely alone. Naughty Dog developed it, and Sony Interactive Entertainment published it. It remakes a 2013 game in which the…
Metro ExodusIn Metro Exodus, a gas filter lasts exactly one minute. When the minute ends, the player must fit a fresh one, and only if a spare is still in the pack. That ticking pressure defines the 2019 first-person shooter from 4A Games, the third…
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles MoralesMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a 2020 superhero game set in a Manhattan buried under Christmas snow. Its hero is a young Spider-Man who still doubts that he can wear the mask as well as the man who trained him. Around him, his new…
Alan Wake 2Alan Wake 2 cost a reported 70 million euros, which makes it one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland. Remedy Entertainment developed the 2023 survival horror game, and Epic Games Publishing released it. Its…
PUBG: BattlegroundsPUBG: Battlegrounds, a battle royale video game from 2017, once had 2,279,084 people playing it on Steam at the same moment. It reached that peak while still officially unfinished, listed as an early access title. The game began as a…
Marvel's Spider-Man (video game)Marvel's Spider-Man, released for the PlayStation 4 on the 7th of September 2018, sold 3.3 million units in its first three days. That figure includes copies bundled with consoles. It made the game the fastest-selling first-party release…
Final Fantasy VII RemakeFinal Fantasy VII Remake's reveal sent Square Enix's stock to its highest point since November 2008.
Final Fantasy VII RebirthFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth was released on Leap Day, the 29th of February 2024. Square Enix chose that date deliberately.
Final Fantasy XVIIn Final Fantasy XVI, the hero hunts a fire monster that turns out to be him.
Resident Evil 4 (2023 video game)Resident Evil 4, Capcom's 2023 survival horror remake, earned an unusual compliment from the man who made the original. Shinji Mikami, who directed the 2005 game, said on Twitter that he enjoyed the remake very much. He also admitted that…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 reached players on the 14th of November 2025, and within weeks its user score on Metacritic had fallen to 1.5. That was the lowest rating any Call of Duty game had ever received on the site. Yet critics were…
Fallout 4Fallout 4 begins on the 23rd of October 2077, the day the nuclear bombs fall. The 2015 action role-playing game comes from Bethesda Game Studios, and it is the fourth main entry in the Fallout series. Earlier games in the series start long…
Uncharted 4: A Thief's EndUncharted 4: A Thief's End was already in strangers' hands on the 26th of April 2016, ahead of its official launch. Amazon had begun shipping copies early. The next day, a batch bound for retail stores in the United Kingdom was stolen in…
Far Cry 6Far Cry 6 opens with a fishing boat full of refugees slipping away from the Caribbean island of Yara, bound for Miami. It never arrives. The island's own president, Antón Castillo, stops the boat at sea. He discovers that his 13-year-old…
The Stanley ParableThe Stanley Parable begins with an office worker known only as employee 427. Stanley sits in a building and presses buttons whenever a screen tells him to. He never speaks, and his job is to follow instructions without asking why. Then one…
Doom (1993 video game)Doom crashed a university network the night it was released in 1993. Ten thousand people tried to download it at once.
Directive 8020Directive 8020 is a 2026 survival horror game from Supermassive Games, and it opens with a murder. In the prologue, sleep technician Pari Simms kills her colleague Tomas Carter aboard the colony ship Cassiopeia. The two are the only people…
Destiny 2Destiny 2 is a shooter made by Bungie, and in June 2026 it receives what is billed as its final update, called Monument of Triumph. That update ends active development. The servers will stay on, though. Bungie confirmed that the game will…
God of War RagnarökGod of War Ragnarök sold 5.1 million copies in its first week, the fastest launch week any first-party PlayStation game has recorded. Santa Monica Studio released the game on the 9th of November 2022 as the sequel to 2018's God of War. Its…
Death StrandingDeath Stranding is a 2019 video game in which a courier named Sam Porter Bridges crosses a wrecked United States on foot, carrying a premature baby in a pod. The baby is not cargo. It is a tool, a companion and, as the story unfolds,…
Horizon Zero DawnIn Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 game from Guerrilla Games and Sony, an infant is found before a sealed door inside a sacred mountain. She grows up as Aloy, an outcast of the Nora tribe, raised by a fellow outcast named Rost. Her world is a…
DeltaruneDeltarune began as a fever dream. In 2011, while Toby Fox was in college, he saw the ending of a video game in his sleep and resolved to build it. The result is an episodic role-playing game from the American indie developer, set in a…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was blocked from sale in Kuwait before release. Every pre-order in the country was cancelled and refunded, and Kuwaiti officials gave no reason. Publications guessed that the game's Gulf War setting was the cause.…
Intergalactic: The Heretic ProphetIntergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is an upcoming action-adventure game from the studio Naughty Dog, published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5. Its first trailer showed a bounty hunter watching anime, listening to…
Tekken 8Tekken 8 is a 2024 fighting game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Arika and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Its first public hint came in August 2022 at Evo 2022, a convention where a live Tekken 7 tournament was under way.…
Honkai: Star RailHonkai: Star Rail, a free-to-play role-playing game from the Shanghai studio miHoYo, had 22.98 million people in mainland China pre-register before it opened its doors. Another 10 million signed up from outside the mainland. That is an…
Dementium: The WardKonami turned down Dementium: The Ward when it was pitched as a Silent Hill game for the Nintendo DS.
Elden RingGeorge R. R. Martin wrote Elden Ring's backstory, not its in-game story. Some critics found his role unclear.