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Video game 2024

ASTRO BOT

A platformer that turns the PS5, its controller and thirty years of PlayStation history into one enormous playground.

With ASTRO BOT, Team Asobi transforms the playful experience of Astro’s Playroom into a full 3D platforming adventure built around dozens of gameplay ideas and a particularly inventive use of the DualSense. Released exclusively on PS5 in 2024, the game became both a celebration of PlayStation history and the Game of the Year winner at The Game Awards 2024.

• Action
• Platformer

Video game 2023

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian turns the rules of Dungeons & Dragons into a vast playground for experimentation where a dice roll, a conversation or an absurd idea can genuinely change the adventure.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a turn-based RPG set in the Forgotten Realms of Dungeons & Dragons. Leading a group infected with mind flayer parasites, the player explores a world built around choices, systemic interactions and consequences, with a level of freedom rarely pushed this far in an RPG of such scale.

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• RPG

Video game 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sandfall Interactive turns the countdown of a doomed civilization into a French RPG where every combat turn demands as much thought as reflex.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 follows Gustave, Maelle and their companions on a desperate mission against the Paintress, an entity that condemns a new generation to disappear every year. Inspired by the French Belle Époque and major JRPGs, Sandfall Interactive's first game combines turn-based combat, real-time dodges and parries, surrealist art direction and a story centered on death, grief and what we choose to pass on.

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• RPG

Video game 2020

Cyberpunk 2077

A science-fiction RPG whose own history has become almost as remarkable as Night City itself: a chaotic launch, patient reconstruction and a spectacular second life.

Cyberpunk 2077 immerses the player in Night City, a futuristic metropolis where implants, corporations and violence shape both its characters and its gameplay. After a difficult launch in 2020, CD Projekt RED’s RPG was extensively reworked over the following years, eventually becoming, with Update 2.0 and Phantom Liberty, a noticeably different experience from the one players discovered at release.

• Cyberpunk
• Action RPG
• FPS

Video game 2022

Elden Ring

The game in which FromSoftware opened up its Souls formula, turning difficulty into a constant invitation to explore elsewhere.

With Elden Ring, FromSoftware transposes its demanding action RPG formula into the vast Lands Between, an open world where exploration, discovery and freedom of progression profoundly reshape the formula inherited from the Souls games. Released in 2022, it became the studio’s greatest commercial success and one of the most highly awarded games of its generation.

• Dark fantasy
• Action RPG
• Souls-like

Video game 2024

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

FromSoftware draws the Tarnished into an even denser, more vertical and more hostile Land of Shadow, following in Miquella's footsteps and uncovering a history the Lands Between had carefully buried.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is Elden Ring's major expansion. It opens the Land of Shadow, a new territory marked by Miquella, Messmer and a forgotten war, while adding new bosses, weapons, spells, equipment and progression systems. FromSoftware condenses the strengths of its open world into a more compact, vertical and deliberately demanding adventure.

• Adventure
• Dark fantasy
• Action RPG

Video game 2024

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

The second part of the Final Fantasy VII Remake project leaves Midgar behind to transform a legendary journey into a vast group adventure shaped by exploration, memory and destiny.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth continues the journey of Cloud and his companions after their escape from Midgar. Square Enix greatly expands the adventure with vast regions to explore, an enriched combat system and a reinterpretation of the 1997 Final Fantasy VII that constantly plays with the memories of returning players.

• Adventure
• Action RPG
• JRPG

Video game 2020

Final Fantasy VII Remake

Square Enix revisits the opening hours of a JRPG landmark, rebuilding Midgar on a new scale and turning the remake into a genuine reinterpretation.

Final Fantasy VII Remake revisits the Midgar section of the 1997 Final Fantasy VII while greatly expanding its locations, characters and story. Cloud, Barret, Tifa and Aerith evolve within an RPG that blends real-time action with tactical commands, as Square Enix gradually begins to question how faithful a remake really needs to remain to its source.

• Adventure
• Action RPG
• JRPG

Video game 2021

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut

Sucker Punch extends Jin Sakai's journey with Iki Island and refines an adventure where saving Tsushima gradually means disobeying everything a samurai had been taught about how to fight.

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut brings together Jin Sakai's complete adventure, the cooperative Legends mode and the Iki Island expansion. Between katana duels, stealth, wind-guided exploration and the conflict between tradition and survival, Sucker Punch builds a romanticized vision of feudal Japan whose beauty serves both the journey and its hero's inner struggle.

• Action
• Adventure
• Historical

Video game 2018

God of War

Santa Monica Studio brings the camera closer to Kratos to better reveal what the series had until then almost always hidden behind his anger: a man trying to learn how to become a father.

God of War follows Kratos and his son Atreus on a journey through the lands of Norse mythology to fulfill Faye's final wish. By leaving Greece, the distant camera and part of its former frenzy behind in favor of more physical combat, semi-open exploration and a father-son relationship at the center of the story, Santa Monica Studio profoundly reinvents its series without erasing what made Kratos who he is.

• Action
• Adventure
• Fantasy

Video game 2022

God of War Ragnarök

The conclusion to Kratos and Atreus’ Norse saga, where the intimacy of a father-son relationship meets the looming scale of Ragnarök.

A direct sequel to God of War (2018), God of War Ragnarök expands the journey across all nine realms and deepens its combat system without abandoning the family bond at the heart of this new era of the series. Released on PS4 and PS5 in 2022, then on PC in 2024, it stands among Santa Monica Studio’s most acclaimed productions.

• Action
• Adventure
• RPG

Video game 2013

Grand Theft Auto V

Three criminals, one enormous city and a series of heists that turn Los Santos into a satirical playground.

Grand Theft Auto V follows Michael, Franklin and Trevor across Los Santos and Blaine County. Rockstar combines heists, open-world freedom and social satire in an adventure built around three protagonists the player can switch between.

• Action
• Adventure
• Third-person shooter

Video game 2023

Hogwarts Legacy : L'Héritage de Poudlard

Avalanche Software finally opens the doors of a freely explorable Hogwarts and turns the dream of attending wizarding school into a vast open-world action RPG.

Hogwarts Legacy : L'Héritage de Poudlard transports the player into the wizarding world at the end of the 19th century, long before the adventures of Harry Potter. Between magic classes, exploration of Hogwarts, combat, fantastic creatures and ancient secrets, Avalanche Software above all builds an immense experience of immersion in a universe long dreamed of but rarely explored with this much freedom.

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Action RPG

Video game 2022

Horizon Forbidden West

The sequel where Guerrilla expands every dimension of Horizon — exploration, mobility, machines and world design — sometimes at the risk of making its open world almost too generous.

Horizon Forbidden West continues Aloy’s journey into the Forbidden West, a region where a collapsing biosphere, new tribes and increasingly imposing machines extend the stakes of Horizon Zero Dawn. Released on PS4 and PS5 in 2022 and later on PC as a Complete Edition in 2024, the game refines combat, expands mobility and gives its open world significantly greater density.

• Adventure
• Science fiction
• Post-apocalyptic

Video game 2020

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Insomniac hands New York over to Miles Morales for one winter to tell not how to become another Spider-Man, but how to find his own way of wearing the mask.

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales continues the universe established by the 2018 game while placing Miles at the center of the story. Shorter and more focused, the adventure retains Insomniac's acrobatic traversal and combat while developing bioelectric powers, camouflage and the personal identity of this new Spider-Man.

• Action
• Adventure
• Open world

Video game 2023

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

The game where Insomniac fully brings Peter Parker and Miles Morales together, making movement, the symbiote and an expanded New York the driving forces of an adventure built around two heroes.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 brings Peter Parker and Miles Morales together in an expanded New York that now includes Brooklyn and Queens, with new powers, Web Wings and much faster traversal across the city. Released on PS5 in 2023 and later on PC in 2025, the game pushes Insomniac’s formula toward greater speed, spectacle and complementarity between its two heroes.

• Action
• Adventure
• Open world

Video game 2021

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Commander Shepard crosses a galaxy threatened by the Reapers in a trilogy where decisions, alliances and sacrifices carry over from one game to the next.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition brings together Commander Shepard’s three adventures in a remastered collection. BioWare combines RPG, science fiction, combat and narrative choices whose consequences follow the player throughout the trilogy.

• Action
• Adventure
• Science fiction

Video game 2019

Persona 5 Royal

In Tokyo, a high school student becomes the leader of the Phantom Thieves and lives a double life between classes, relationships and corrupted desires.

Persona 5 Royal follows a group of high school students able to explore a world shaped by human desires. Atlus combines turn-based JRPG combat, time management and social life in an expanded version of Persona 5.

• Adventure
• Supernatural
• JRPG

Video game 2021

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

The game where Insomniac turns dimensional rifts, the PS5 SSD and its outrageous arsenal into a demonstration of what a new console generation can bring to gameplay.

With Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Insomniac Games sends its long-running series through entire dimensions with almost no transition, while introducing Rivet and strengthening the mix of platforming, shooting and humor that defines the franchise. Released on PS5 in 2021 and later on PC in 2023, it remains one of the clearest technical showcases of the first half of the generation.

• Action
• Adventure
• Platformer

Video game 2018

Red Dead Redemption 2

Arthur Morgan rides with the Van der Linde gang through a disappearing American West, between survival, loyalty and personal choices.

Red Dead Redemption 2 follows Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang in 1899, as the age of outlaws approaches its end. Rockstar combines western, open world and ensemble storytelling in an adventure where everyday life matters as much as gunfights.

• Action
• Adventure
• Western

Video game 2019

Resident Evil 2

Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield arrive separately in Raccoon City and discover a city devastated by the T-virus, where simply surviving is already a victory.

Resident Evil 2 reimagines the 1998 survival horror classic through Leon and Claire’s journeys. Capcom rebuilds Raccoon City with RE ENGINE and combines exploration, puzzles, limited resources and a persistent threat inside a police station turned labyrinth.

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2020

Resident Evil 3

Hunted by Nemesis through a doomed Raccoon City, Jill Valentine tries to escape the outbreak while Carlos Oliveira continues searching for survivors.

Resident Evil 3 reimagines the 1999 game around Jill Valentine’s escape from Raccoon City. Capcom favors a faster experience where exploration, dodging, resource management and Nemesis pursuits constantly accelerate the pace.

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2023

Resident Evil 4

Six years after Raccoon City, Leon S. Kennedy is sent to rescue the U.S. president’s daughter in a European village where horror has taken on a new form.

Resident Evil 4 reimagines the 2005 classic around Leon S. Kennedy and the rescue of Ashley Graham. Capcom modernizes combat, exploration and staging while preserving the balance between tension, action and resource management.

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2026

Resident Evil Requiem

Grace Ashcroft and Leon S. Kennedy return to the scars of Raccoon City in a survival horror experience that alternates vulnerability, investigation and action.

Resident Evil Requiem brings together FBI analyst Grace Ashcroft and Leon S. Kennedy in a new story connected to Raccoon City’s past. Capcom contrasts tense survival horror with more aggressive action within the same adventure.

• Action
• Adventure
• Horror

Video game 2023

Starfield

In 2330, an explorer joins Constellation and travels across the Settled Systems in search of artifacts connected to one of humanity’s greatest mysteries.

Starfield transposes Bethesda’s RPG formula into a vast science-fiction universe. Planetary exploration, combat, factions, shipbuilding and character choices accompany a quest centered on Constellation’s mysterious artifacts.

• Action
• Adventure
• Science fiction

Video game 2011

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios turns a frozen province into an adventure where a silhouette beyond a mountain can still make you forget the quest you meant to follow.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim takes the player to the northern province of Skyrim as dragons return and civil war pits the Empire against the Stormcloaks. As the Dragonborn, the player can follow this prophecy or simply wander elsewhere: guilds, dungeons, magic, crafting, exploration, homes, vampires, dragons and mods have made Skyrim one of the most enduring open-world RPGs of its era.

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• RPG

Video game 2022

The Last of Us Part I

Naughty Dog completely rebuilds Joel and Ellie's journey to bring a 2013 classic closer to the technical, visual and accessibility standards of its sequel.

The Last of Us Part I is a complete remake of the first The Last of Us, centered on Joel and Ellie's journey across an America devastated by a fungal infection. Naughty Dog preserves the structure and story of the 2013 game while rebuilding environments, characters, animations, controls and accessibility for PS5 and PC.

• Action
• Adventure
• Post-apocalyptic

Video game 2020

The Last of Us Part II

Naughty Dog turns revenge into an uncomfortable, brutal experience deliberately split between several perspectives on the same violence.

The Last of Us Part II continues Ellie's story five years after the first game. Her journey through Jackson and Seattle expands combat, stealth and exploration while building a story about revenge, grief, guilt and the difficulty of looking at a conflict from the opposing side.

• Action
• Adventure
• Post-apocalyptic

Video game 2015

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

CD Projekt RED turns the search for Ciri into a vast journey through a dark fantasy world where the monsters hardest to understand are not always the ones Geralt is paid to hunt.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt follows Geralt of Rivia across a war-torn Continent as he searches for Ciri, his adopted daughter, pursued by the Wild Hunt. Between monster contracts, political intrigue, choices whose consequences can surface much later and exceptionally developed side stories, CD Projekt RED builds an open-world RPG that has become one of the genre's major references.

• Adventure
• Dark fantasy
• Action RPG

Video game 2016

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Retired from treasure hunting, Nathan Drake is pulled back into adventure when his brother Sam reappears with a lead to the lost treasure of pirate Henry Avery.

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End concludes Nathan Drake’s main story with a quest for Libertalia, the legendary pirate colony. Naughty Dog blends exploration, climbing, stealth, gunfights and intimate storytelling in what was its most ambitious adventure at the time.

• Action
• Adventure
• Third-person shooter

Video game 2015

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune Remastered

Nathan Drake’s first adventure returns on PS4 in a remastered version that modernizes the visuals, controls and fluidity without rebuilding the 2007 game.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Remastered revisits the search for El Dorado that introduced Nathan Drake on PlayStation 3. Bluepoint Games adapts the adventure for PS4 at 1080p/60 fps, reworks aiming and grenades, and adds Photo Mode along with new difficulty modes.

• Action
• Adventure
• Third-person shooter

Video game 2015

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection

Nathan Drake’s first three adventures are brought together and remastered for PS4, from the search for El Dorado to the secrets of Shambhala and Ubar.

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection brings together the solo campaigns of Drake’s Fortune, Among Thieves and Drake’s Deception. Bluepoint Games remasters the trilogy for PS4 with 1080p/60 fps presentation, reworked visuals and several new modes.

• Action
• Adventure
• Third-person shooter