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Kratos, for the first time in the role of father rather than avenger of gods; combat and camera rebuilt from scratch.

An original story about a seasoned Spider-Man, swinging through Manhattan like never before.

A narrative split between two hostile characters forces you to live the conflict from both sides.

The creators of Killzone surprised everyone with an open world of mechanical beasts instead of dinosaurs.

FromSoftware swapped the shield for a gun; the Rally mechanic rewards aggression.

Nathan Drake's final chapter, with the series' most mature story and cinematic pacing of action.

An open world inspired by samurai films, where the wind, not a map, points the way to your destination.

Kojima's game, where the core mechanic is simply walking with cargo across a devastated USA.

Massive hordes of hundreds of zombies force you to use traps and terrain tactically; the motorbike is almost a character.

Three androids, three intertwined fates, and choices that branch the story into many endings.

A modern reboot of the series' 2002 debut, filmed alongside an animated movie.

The series' first focus on online competition; Sport Mode was created in collaboration with the FIA.

A double life for students: school by day, stealing the hearts of corrupt adults by night.

A soulslike set in the Sengoku period with three sword stances and merciless difficulty.

A ground-up remake of Fumito Ueda's classic; no ordinary enemies, just sixteen colossi.

The most sprawling open world of its time, where even minor quests hide moral dilemmas.

A massive open world with incredible density of detail, where even caring for your horse has its own rules.

The series' first three playable protagonists, switchable even in the middle of the action.

The open world of the Lands Between, its mythology co-created with author George R. R. Martin.

The trilogy's final entry sped up combat toward Bloodborne's more aggressive style.

Combat is decided by the posture system, not stamina or builds; FromSoftware's most merciless game.

For the first time, a truly seamless open world instead of separate mission zones.

A road trip story about a prince and his three childhood friends, after years of turbulent development.

Just the opening chapter of the 1997 classic, expanded into dozens of hours of a full-fledged game.

A pairing of writer Yoko Taro and PlatinumGames; combat blends swordplay with bullet-hell.

Hideo Kojima's last game under Konami, and the series' first entry with a truly open world.

A remake of the 1998 classic, rebuilt from the ground up with an over-the-shoulder perspective.

A return to claustrophobic horror, and the series' first entry in first-person perspective.

A return to the fast, brutal core of the 1993 original after years of slower shooters.

The sequel sped combat up into an almost dance-like, micromanaged experience.

The creators of Halo combined a first-person shooter with the MMO structure of a game as a service.

Born from the wreckage of the cancelled MMO project Titan as a team-based hero shooter.

A battle royale where real-time building set the game apart from PUBG and others.

Football played with rocket-powered cars in an enclosed arena, turned into a genuine esports phenomenon.

A sprawling metroidvania made by a handful of people from the Australian studio Team Cherry.

A precision platformer about climbing a mountain, a journey that serves as a metaphor for anxiety and depression.

Hand-painted animation in the spirit of 1930s rubber-hose cartoons, with boss fights that spare no one.

A roguelike where dying moves the story forward; Greek mythology takes the lead roles.

An RPG without a single fight — you solve the detective mystery through words and your own fractured psyche.

After The Witcher, CD Projekt Red bet on neon-lit Night City and Keanu Reeves as Silverhand.

A series reboot that turned cover-based action into a full-fledged RPG with a skill tree.

Ancient Greece, two selectable protagonists, and for the first time fully voiced dialogue choices.

A compact Christmas-set spin-off about the young successor with bioelectric powers.

A short, moving wordless journey from the creators of Flow and Flower; a game full of beauty.

A tool for creating anything from Media Molecule — platformers, shooters, and even film demos.

The sequel to the game about a girl who controls gravity; walking on the walls and ceilings of an Art Nouveau city.

An interactive slasher horror where the butterfly effect decides who in the group survives the night.

Aloy continues her journey among mechanical creatures in a far more varied coastal setting.

A standalone adventure in which Chloe Frazer takes on the role of lead protagonist for the first time.

A boy and the giant creature Trico; a game about trust where you never control your companion directly.

One of the first games to show off the power of the PS4; a graffiti artist gathers powers through touch.

A PS4 launch title meant to showcase a new generation of shooters right from the console's debut.

Steampunk Victorian London, knights against half-beasts, and cover-based shootouts.

A prequel to Nioh with souls-like combat, three weapon stances, and yokai abilities.

A VR platformer where you're simultaneously a giant observer and a tiny robot within the same scene.

An entire world made of paper, where the player intervenes in the story directly through a tear in the sky.

The conclusion of Rocksteady's trilogy opens up all of Gotham City as one continuous space for the first time.

A choice between two protagonists with different supernatural powers in the city of Karnaca.

A bureaucratic building full of supernatural phenomena; shooting combined with telekinesis from Remedy.

Lightsaber duels in a souls-like style combined with metroidvania exploration.

The return of the pure action series with three playable characters and a stylish combo-rating system.

Closes out the Lara Croft trilogy with an emphasis on stealth and climbing over gunfights.

Pulls the series out of the Moscow metro and onto the surface; a journey across Russia on a steam locomotive.

A prequel to the whole series set in the late 1980s, with two protagonists and three fighting styles.

A classic JRPG brought to textbook perfection, without trying to turn the genre upside down.

A deep tactical RPG from Larian Studios that brought the quality of a PC classic to consoles.

Post-nuclear Boston, the search for a kidnapped son, and factions each with their own vision for rebuilding the world.

The most expansive entry in the series; as leader of the Inquisition, the player decides the fate of entire kingdoms.

Concludes a fifteen-year story arc connecting Disney worlds with serious fantasy.

A remake of a once-overlooked game that got a second life only after the success of its sequel.

An unusually gentle JRPG about a young king who builds a new land of peace instead of seeking revenge.

A distinctive action RPG where Western fantasy is filtered through a Japanese lens full of nighttime horrors.

A remastered version of the series' boldest experiment, closer to political drama than fairy tale.

An unusually dark entry in the Tales series, driven by a heroine fueled by a desire for revenge.

A castaway odyssey in the long-running Ys series, where you build a camp on a forbidden island.

A Czech historical RPG without dragons or magic, set amid disputes over the Czech crown.

A satirical sci-fi RPG from Obsidian, where corporations have taken control of an entire colonized star system.

A bold series reboot with turn-based combat and a new protagonist from the bottom of the gangster world.

A modern reboot of the Tales series with more mature presentation and a story about liberation from slavery.

Multiplayer action with giant Titan mechs, complemented by a fantastic single-player campaign.

World War One instead of the near future; the opening scene immediately changes the tone of the whole series.

An uncompromising FPS about an uprising against the Nazis; a badly wounded Blazkowicz keeps fighting.

A slow, suffocating horror with a single alien; Ellen Ripley's daughter searches for her mother.

A more balanced sequel to the STEM horror; a detective searches for the daughter he believed dead.

Complete helplessness in the Mount Massive asylum; a favorite among both players and streamers.

From the creators of Amnesia; a sci-fi horror where the scariest thing is an idea, not a monster.

Parkour and a zombie apocalypse in one; climbing and jumping turns escape into an addictive game.

Sci-fi from Arkane set on a lonely space station; the Mimics can transform into anything around them.

A remake of the classic starring Jill Valentine; Nemesis is the most relentless hunter in the series.

A dark platformer without a single word; the storytelling relies solely on imagery and the atmosphere of escape.

A grotesque platformer where the whole world is deliberately oversized and the player tiny.

A roguevania combining the endless death of a roguelike with the ability growth of a metroidvania.

The farming simulator was programmed practically single-handedly by Eric Barone under the name ConcernedApe.

A narrative adventure in which the bizarre family house itself is the main character.

A puzzle game from the creator of Braid; dozens of rule sets explained purely through play, without words.

A physics platformer about a little creature knitted from yarn; the dwindling thread limits every step.

A metroidvania drawn from Mexican folklore; a farmer puts on a magic mask and becomes a luchador.

One of the most visually elaborate platformers ever; the musical levels remain a benchmark to this day.

A completely rebuilt trio of classics starring Crash the bandicoot; it looks new but plays like the originals.

A racing game on the border between arcade and simulation from the creators of MotorStorm; the cars have a noticeable weight.

A tough return to rally simulation; the slightest mistake in weight transfer costs you dearly.

A collection of three futuristic anti-gravity racers in one, at high resolution and high speed.

Open-world arcade racing without menus or loading screens; you can race literally from anywhere.

A remake of two skateboarding classics with the layout of every ramp perfectly preserved.

An open world of winter sports; you switch between skis, snowboard, and wingsuit on the fly.

A remake of the first Yakuza game with Kazuma Kiryu; a yakuza drama of honor and betrayal in Kamurocho.

A remake of the second game on the Dragon Engine; the first seamless transition between combat and exploration.

The most sprawling entry in the series - five playable characters and five cities across Japan.

The final chapter of Kazuma Kiryu's story; the first entry built on the new Dragon Engine.

A darker, noir-tinged Yakuza spin-off about detective Takayuki Yagami in Kamurocho.

The sequel to the detective spin-off; a school bullying case across two connected cities.

Kiryu briefly trades the yakuza life for an orphanage in Okinawa; the series' calmest story.

The 2019 series reboot; a raw take on modern warfare, including a controversial mission.

The series' move to Frostbite 3; spectacular, destructible battlefields of the new console generation.

A reboot of the classic without a campaign; purely multiplayer battles across the saga's iconic locations.

A cover-based shooter with RPG loot in a New York devastated by epidemic.

An open world in a fictional Bolivia; fighting a cartel solo or in four-player co-op.

The Himalayan kingdom of Kyrat under the rule of the eccentric despot Pagan Min.

An alternate history where the Nazis won the war; a story-ambitious shooter.

A post-apocalyptic wasteland inspired by Miller's films; building the perfect war machine.

Physics-driven destruction in the fictional Medici against dictator General Di Ravello.

Frenetic action from PlatinumGames featuring rocket-powered ground slides amid firefights.

PlatinumGames steered Metal Gear away from stealth toward action; Raiden slices through almost everything with his katana.

The iconic slow-motion X-ray bullet-hit cams; the fourth game has the series' largest levels.

The eighth entry in the series shifts RE7's horror toward a more action-oriented style close to the RE4 classic.

A polished version of one of the generation's most distinctive JRPGs; its stylization is unmistakable.

An episodic adventure about rewinding time; choices come to fruition episodes later.

An atmospheric walking simulator conducted over a radio in the forests of Wyoming.

An interactive thriller built on quick-time events; any character can die permanently.

Quantic Dream's interactive drama told non-linearly across fifteen years of the heroine's life.

A dark vampire RPG - for every character you choose whether to kill them for power or spare them.

A colonial fantasy RPG from Spiders; diplomacy between factions carries as much weight as the sword.

A 2D soulslike inspired by Dark Souls; slow combat and exploration of an interconnected island.

A third-person soulslike with procedurally generated levels and three-player co-op.

The Definitive Edition finally united content that had been split between Xbox 360 and the Japan-only PS3 version.

A JRPG made in collaboration with Studio Ghibli; its fairy-tale styling remains among the best in the genre.

An isometric CRPG from Obsidian born from crowdfunding; a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate.

BioWare left Shepard behind for a new galaxy; the jetpack gives combat vertical dynamism.

A complete remake of Spyro's first three games with modern graphics and faithful mechanics.

A direct sequel to the classic trilogy, bypassing the spin-offs; Quantum Masks alter gravity.

Sackboy's first full 3D platformer for up to four players; the musical levels are the highlight.

A 2.5D platformer expanded with three new characters and an elaborate custom level editor.

A celebration of Sonic's classic 2D era with modern physics; old and new zones in one package.

A skateboarding platformer in a fairy-tale world; combo tricks demand precise timing.

A return to the series' cooperative roots after a divisive entry; four players solve the puzzles.

A return to the series' traditional format with the Café mode; hundreds of cars and deep tuning options.

A remake of the kart classic enriched with content from Crash Nitro Kart and Grand Prix seasons.

Legal day races and illegal night races, with the risk of losing reputation if you get arrested.

Licensed F1 with the My Team mode - your own outfit, from hiring drivers to developing the car.

Another yearly installment of the football series with an improved dribbling system and the beloved Ultimate Team.

An acclaimed basketball simulation with faithful animation of NBA stars and the MyTeam mode.

A black-and-white platformer full of deadly traps; an icon of the modern indie art-game scene.

One of the most beautiful 2D stories of its generation; a metroidvania told without words.

A tribute to the 8-bit era with an original "shovel bounce" that lets you bop enemies with a shovel.

A lightning-fast action slasher where a single mistake means death; the whole run replays like a movie.

A calm platformer with no dying; color returns to the world as the story comes to terms with loss.

A management sim about ferrying the souls of the deceased; a moving farewell at the lighthouse at the end of the pier.

A detective puzzle where a magic pocket watch replays the scene of a death; guess three fates at once.

A visually distinctive tribute to Zelda: A Link to the Past, its story told only through images and music.

A tribute to 8-bit ninja platformers that cleverly turns into something far bigger.

A fast roguelike with four Gungeoneers and a bizarre fortress full of armed chests.

FPS puzzle where time only passes when the player moves; standing still gives you time to plan your next move.

A sci-fi spin-off that sent the series into space; a zombies mode with 80s retro aesthetics.

The first numbered entry without a classic campaign; instead, the battle royale mode Blackout.

The eighteenth installment, told through the memories of an international squad in the final days of World War II.

Exoskeletons brought double jumps and wall-running; the villain was motion-captured by Kevin Spacey.

A direct sequel to the 2010 Black Ops; a branching story about the hunt for the agent Perseus.

Cybernetic implants, four-player co-op, and a hidden zombies mode Nightmares on top.

One of the PS4's launch titles from 2013; a campaign about the Ghosts unit and co-op Extinction.

A restart of the rebooted trilogy with Captain Price; a springboard for Warzone 2.0.

A shorter campaign in the spirit of Open Combat Missions, but with the return of over twenty maps from MW2.

A return to raw infantry warfare and health kits instead of automatic healing, after years of sci-fi.

A free-to-play battle royale for 150 players with the Gulag as a second chance; a hit of 2020.

A console port of the hack and slash RPG, which arrived on PS4 with controls polished for the gamepad.

The long-awaited sequel to the cult metroidvania, this time in the role of the agile hunter Hornet.

An expansion to the demanding soulslike RPG with an emphasis on an atmospheric world and tough combat.

A reworked release built on the Last Light engine; same story, smoother shooting and AI.

The Redux edition merged stealth infiltration and shootouts into one style and added all the DLC.

Successor to the online series from the Dreamcast era, with deeper character creation and fast action combat.

A 2.5D stealth platformer outside the main series; Arbaaz Mir gets caught up in a dispute between the British, Sikhs and cults.

A detour into police chases instead of warfronts; a campaign styled like a crime drama series.

An open world divided among factions; veteran Lincoln Clay seeks revenge for his slaughtered family.

The first entry in the series without side-scrolling; instead, a top-down view and grotesque twin-stick action.

A fast fighting game with flashy Break Blow hits, readable even to viewers who don't know the combos.

The PS4 version comes straight as the complete package with all the DLC that others had to buy separately over time.

An immersive sim with an emphasis on choosing your approach to missions - quiet infiltration or direct action.

A dark PSP RPG about the cadets of Class Zero, officially released outside Japan for the first time.

3-on-3 battles across the Final Fantasy series with the Bravery and HP damage system.

A direct sequel to Wildlands on the island of Auroa against an army of autonomous combat drones.

Sandbox chaos with a grappling hook and wingsuit in a South American country ruled by a dictatorship.

An episodic adventure about King Graham's memories, told to his granddaughter Gwendolyn.

A rhythm-game celebration of fifteen years of the series with rearranged tracks by Yoko Shimomura.

A puzzle game by Tetsuya Mizuguchi in which blocks vanish in time with the music, based on precise timing.

A short, dense prologue to Phantom Pain; the series' first taste of a more open stealth approach.

Survival with crafting instead of espionage; created after Hideo Kojima left Konami.

Time manipulation pits old fighters against their younger selves.

A complete rebuild of the 1997 Abe's Oddysee in modern 3D graphics and sound.

An action spin-off from the creators of Dynasty Warriors swaps Persona 5's turn-based battles for live combat.

A rhythm spin-off where Persona 3's characters trade battles for the dance floor.

A sister title to the Persona 3 dance spin-off, this time with the Phantom Thieves.

A spiritual sequel to R-Type Final after twenty years, funded through crowdfunding.

An episodic survival horror that returns to the slower pace of the series' first entries.

A spin-off replacing survival horror with fast team-based mercenary action and modular loadouts.

A weapon-based fighting game uniting the series' history, with a guest appearance by Geralt from The Witcher.

The first console exclusive to PlayStation; a smaller roster sparked sharp criticism from players.

A character action brawler from the makers of Bayonetta, instead of the classic isometric turtle beat-'em-up.

An episodic spin-off about Michonne's dark past set between the events of the main comic storyline.

The final episodic chapter of Clementine's long journey, which concludes her entire story.

Cooperative action for up to four players with puzzles and battles in the spirit of Egyptian mythology.

A return to short levels and classic trick controls after the RIDE and Shred experiments.

Reworked graphics from Finland's Frozenbyte for a fairy-tale puzzle platformer with RPG elements.

A bold departure for the series from turn-based tactics to action RPG; the power of Ragnite costs its price in humanity.

The first Worms built directly for PS4 - terrain destruction and explosions look more three-dimensional than ever before.

The series' most radical departure - the turn-based system gives way to a chaotic real-time battle of 32 worms.

Kazuma Kiryu as the samurai Sakamoto Ryoma amid the turbulent end of the Edo era in Kyoto.

Adol, imprisoned in a prison city, transforms at night into Monstrum, a superhuman monster hunter.

Odpočinkový spin-off bojovky Dead or Alive, který sází na volejbal a fanouškovský servis.

Dragon Quest se mění v akční mlátičku; dobrodružství s davy nepřátel.

Větší souboje, volnější svět a silnější parta v pokračování DQ x musou akce.

Stavění, přežívání a DQ příběh spojené v jedno na ostrovech plných úkolů.

Prvni FIFA, ktera hrala jako nova generace konzoli.

FIFA, ve ktere poprve hraji i zenske narodni tymy.

Pribeh Alexe Huntera a Frostbite engine v nove FIFA.

Fotbal s licencí Ligy mistrů a posledním dílem Hunterova příběhu.

Fotbal, který vyšel do ulic: Volta přinesl pětkový futsal a street styl.

Motorky od Milestone na PS4 a juniorský Red Bull Rookies Cup

Motorky na Unreal Engine 4 a sezóna 2017 s ostřejším řízením

Sezóna 2018 na PS4: dopilovaný základ, na kterém stojí další díly

Soupeři se učí jezdit: neuronová AI v oficiálním MotoGP

Sezóna 2020 s druhým rokem neuronové AI soupeřů

Motorky bez kompromisů: ročník 2021 pro PS4

Sezóna 2022 pro majitele PlayStationu 4 za nízkou cenu

Stejný remaster jako na PlayStationu 5, ale na starším hardwaru s kompromisy.

Ledová survival strategie z PC dostala na konzoli nové ovládání gamepadem.

Stejný kompletní Director's Cut jako na PS5, jen na starším hardwaru PS4.

Lov na Aragami se z malé obrazovky Vity stěhuje na televizi, ostřejší a plynulejší.

Stejné nebeské dobrodružství jako na PS5, jen s pevným stropem 30 fps a znatelně horší plynulostí.

Jediná verze, která hned v roce 2016 nabízela bonusový příběh The Sarajevo Six.

Závěr trilogie o agentu 47 doběhl i na starší PlayStation, jen s delším nahráváním.

Bradavice se do staršího PlayStationu vešly až o dva měsíce později a s citelným ořezem.

Kompletní edice se vším DLC jako launchový titul PS4 v plynulejším a ostřejším podání.

Verze pro PS4, na ktere hra vysla soucasne s PS5 uz v den vydani v roce 2021.

Stejný nemilosrdný soulslike o Pinocchiovi, zvládnutelný i na staré PlayStation 4.

Stejný ročník na starší konzoli — bez FieldSENSE a s omezenější prezentací.

Fantasy JRPG od tvůrců Persony i pro majitele starší konzole PlayStation

Stejný sovětský utopický svět, ale poloviční snímkování a méně živé prostředí kolem vás.

První konzolový Minecraft s mapou několikrát větší než na PS3 a Xboxu 360.

Startovní basketbal nové generace s LeBronem na obalu.

Poslední hokej od EA na PS4, bez novinek nové generace.

HD remaster samurajského hororu s moderním ovládáním i širokým obrazem.

Voxelový ohňostroj, který ukázal sílu PS4 hned při jejím startu.

Správa kolonie z PC předělaná tak, aby se ovládala gamepadem.

Kung-fu pomsta, kde se každou smrtí stárne a hra se učí s vámi.

Padouchy lze zavřít do pasti a hrát za ně, tady v ostřejším obraze.

Odstřelovačský stealth z Normandie na PS4, s plným obsahem ale hrubší grafikou.

Původní verze terénního simulátoru, kde blátem projedete jen s rozmyslem.

Stejný rozlehlý svět Black Desert, ale ovládání a rozhraní přestavěné pro gamepad.

Ceněná gotická metroidvania dorazila i na PS4, přes dva měsíce po ostatních platformách.

Galaktická velkostrategie přepracovaná pro gamepad a pohodlí obýváku

Kočičí dobrodružství v neonovém městě robotů i na starší konzoli.

Nejpropracovanější Street Fighter dneška i pro starší PlayStation.

Duchovní nástupce Dead Space; krvavá vesmírná věznice a brutální souboje na blízko.

Závodní festival na Havaji; auta, lodě i letadla v jedné hře.

Tamriel jako MMO bez měsíčního poplatku; Elder Scrolls ke hraní s přáteli.

Obří Oni v plném HD na televizi místo malého displeje Vity.

Letadla, tanky a lodě z druhé světové války ovládané gamepadem.

Čína za Žlutých turbanů na PS4: stejný souboj, ale na starším stroji

Roztomilé Final Fantasy na velké obrazovce, v ostřejším rozlišení.

Šílená časová komedie od LucasArts; remaster ji pěkně vyčistil.

DayZ dorazilo na PS4 zjednodušené a ořezané, přesto stále brutálně nekompromisní.

Definitivní vydání démonické řeže s novými režimy Turbo, Style Switching a Legendary Dark Knight.

Přepracovaná klasika běží i na staré konzoli, jen za cenu nižšího výkonu.

Temný Sanktuář roku 2023 i na konzoli předchozí generace, s citelně nižším výkonem.

Stejný hackerský příběh a stejní Digimoni, jen ostřeji a na velké obrazovce.

Stejná bahnitá jízda jako na nové generaci, jen s o dost skromnější technikou.

Fotbal doputoval i na PS4, ale skrývá se pod starším a jednodušším enginem.

Druhý ročník série vychází na PS4 na staršímu enginu, vedle next-gen verze.

Ultimate edice vyměnila dotykové panely Vity za páčku DualShocku a přidala 19 hádanek.