Top PlayStation 4 Games 2023

The Last Guardian is a game about friendship that will test your patience with a wonky camera and controls.

Being Batman in Akrham VR is a great way to more intimately experience Rocksteady's universe and to search for clues in this brief mystery. However, the world and characters around you are largely rigid and unresponsive to your actions, which leaves a lot on the table for a game about a character known as much for his brawn as he is for his brains.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided feels exactly like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, for better and worse.

If you're looking for a fun game set in prehistoric times, check out Far Cry Primal. Just don't expect much of a story.

The usual Wolfenstein brilliance is here, and MachineGames have shown they've got a great handle on splattering fascists. They should be commended for being bold enough to take big risks here, and several of those risks have paid off, while those that haven't only served to make the game a great deal weirder. 

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2’s ambition is admirable, and though it’s riddled with a lot of silly little inconveniences, it mostly succeeds in giving DBZ fans an authentic-feeling world to dive into for the long haul. Though no individual element of its roleplaying or brawling gameplay is overly complex, taken as a whole there’s a surprising amount to consider while progressing your character, and enough to do to keep it from getting stale to soon.

Until Dawn is a B-movie delight for horror fans, thanks to creative narrative mechanics and excellent production values.

Wolfenstein and I go back a long way. The original was possibly the first PC game I ever played, sitting at the keyboard of my housemate’s 386 not long after the game first launched. Over a two year period I played through the original on every difficultly level, followed by iD’s sequel, Spear of Destiny. Just less than ten years later I was captivated by Raven’s first re-imagining, Return to Castle Wolfenstein – a game which suffered from comparisons with its contemporary, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, but which I found hugely entertaining. I say this because I don’t want you to think that I came into the new Wolfenstein wanting to put it down or to complain about iD and Activision milking the franchise. I came into it rooting for the game, wanting it to be good. I don’t care if Wolfenstein is backwards looking, dated or lacking in innovation. As long as it looks, plays and feels like a modern day Wolfenstein should, then I’ll be happy.

The Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection brings the Game Boy Advance RPGs to modern systems, and with it hours of chip-collecting fun.

Volition’s return to the series is a joyful romp, brimming with charm, violence, and quippy one-liners, but only when it remembers to take itself less seriously.