Shooter Games are one of the things the PlayStation 5 is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Returnal, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, The Last of Us Part I.
Fast storage, a controller that does things nothing else does, and a library that mixes Sony's usual formula with the biggest third-party games of the decade.
This is one of its strengths. Action and action RPG — Elden Ring, Demon's Souls, Stellar Blade, Lies of P — plus Astro Bot, which is the best argument anyone has made for the hardware.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
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Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
Returnal is the usual first answer, and there are 8 in the library we cover.
Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 8 in the library we cover.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
From the games this site covers on the PlayStation 5, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole PlayStation 5 library.