Best upcoming PS5 games: PlayStation titles to anticipate in 2022 and beyond
Sony's PlayStation 5 has now been out for over a year. While there were some superb games to enjoy at launch already, there are even more coming down the pike over the next few months.
We've gathered the best contenders, right here for you, from confirmed releases to games that we're certain are in the pipeline, including new trailers wherever they exist.
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The Quarry
- Release date: 10 June 2022
- PS5 Exclusive? No, also on PS4, Xbox and PC
- Publisher: 2K Games
Another horror special from the twisted minds at Supermassive Games, this title will be the first time since Until Dawn that we get a longer full-sized story to play through after the shorter experiences of The Dark Pictures Anthology.
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Stray
- Release date: 19 July 2022
- PS5 Exclusive? No, also on PS4
- Publisher: Annapurna Interactive
This game captured hearts and minds with its first trailer back in 2020, but now we know that it's much closer to release, and the gameplay walkthrough above makes it look like a intriguing and adorable adventure. You'll play as a stray cat making its way through a robot-filled city and solving numerous problems on your way.
Saints Row
- Release date: 23 August 2022
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PS4, Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Koch Media
Saints Row returns with what looks like a raucous open-world shooter that leaves everything up to you, letting you tear up the world your own particular way. It's a reboot of a franchise that's often known the true meaning of fun.
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Forspoken
- Release date: 11 October 2022
- PS5 exclusive? Yes
- Publisher: Square Enix
This all-new game from Square Enix sees an unlikely heroine transported to a magical realm, where she finds she's got more up her sleeve than she ever realised. Forspoken looks like a rollicking good time, and the visual side of things is shaping up amazingly.
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Gotham Knights
- Release date: 25 October 2022
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PS4, Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Warner Bros.
The same crunching combat and exploration that made the Arkham trilogy such huge successes for Batman fans look like they're coming to Gotham Knights, with multiple characters to swap between and each bringing their own tricks to the table.
It also looks like it's going to be a visual spectacle, with as detailed and moody a version of Gotham as we can remember seeing in any game. We've waited too long to get into some fights in the world of Batman!
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Release date: 28 October 2022
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PS4, Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Activision
Call of Duty returns with a long-awaited follow-up to the excellent 2019 entry from Infinity Ward, which reprises one of the series' most famous titles. It looks set to change things up with all-new maps and modes, alongside an overhaul for Warzone.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
- Release date: 2022
- PS5 Exclusive? No also on Xbox, PS4 and PC
- Publisher: Warner Bros.
Rocksteady finally returns after a quiet period following its acclaimed Arkham games, and it's back in the DC universe. This time it's taking on the Suicide Squad, with a four-man team of miscreants tasked with bumping off the corrupted superhero lineup of the Justice League.
It looks like colourful fun, and unlike the Batman games you've got multiple styles of combat to embrace between the various characters, so we can't wait to get our hands on it and try it for ourselves.
God of War Ragnarok
- Release date: 2022
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PS4
- Publisher: Sony
The next big game from Santa Monica Studio is looking absolutely superb, following Kratos and his son Atreus' story as the boy ages and taking us to all-new realms from the Asgardian mythos. It's shaping up to be even bigger than the last game.
We don't know exactly when the game will release, but after an initial release window of 2021 was missed we'd assume the developers are aiming for a 2022 date.
The Callisto Protocol
- Release date: 2 December 2022
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PS4, Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Krafton
A horror game from the mind behind the original Dead Space - and you can see the heritage in the trailer above. The Callisto Protocol looks absolutely terrifying, full of nasty monsters and jump scares to go with a more creeping sense of tension.
Hogwarts Legacy
- Release date: Holiday 2022
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on Xbox Series X and PC
- Publisher: Warner Bros
It's finally happening - a proper, big-budget game set in the marvellous world of Harry Potter (even if it's ditching his name). This sprawling RPG has finally had a trailer and looks incredible, although we'll look forward to learning more about exactly what structure it'll take.
Players will have their own wizard to guide through 1800s Hogwarts and the world around it, all of it bringing brand-new stories to the table.
Dead Space
- Release date: 27 January 2023
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on Xbox Series X and PC
- Publisher: EA
Dead Space is back - a full remake of the first game is on the way. It'll be a next-gen only experience, too, so we'd expect it to take advantage of the DualSense's advanced haptics and the console's 3D audio for truly terrifying levels of immersion.
Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Release date: 23 March 2023
- PS5 exclusive? Yes
- Publisher: Capcom
We're getting another in the line of extremely polished remakes or reimaginings of Resident Evil games, it's been confirmed, and next up is perhaps the most influential and critically acclaimed of them all, Resi 4. Leon's harrowing journey to rescue the President's daughter looks like it's being upgraded in a huge number of ways, and we can't wait to revisit it.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
- Release date: 2023
- PS5 exclusive? Yes
- Publisher: Sony
Insomniac's hot streak with the web-slinger continues - after the expandalone Miles Morales adventure, Peter Parker and Miles will be teaming up in the new game, due out in 2023 and featuring a slathering antagonist in the form of the fearsome Venom.
Street Fighter 5
- Release date: 2023
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PS4, Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Capcom
The next big Street Fighter is on the way, with a new art style and what looks like it might be a free-roaming adventure mode, a huge potential shift for the series. There are new and returning fighters, and we're hugely looking forward to seeing how it handles.
Final Fantasy XVI
- Release date: Summer 2023
- PS5 exclusive? Yes
- Publisher: Square Enix
Final Fantasy might be bidding goodbye to party-based combat, if the trailers for the next main instalment are anything to go by, with a darker fantasy tale that looks to have one main protagonist that you control in combat. Of course, that could just be what we've seen so far, and it looks incredibly gorgeous on the PS5.
Alan Wake 2
- Release date: 2023
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Epic Games
At long last, we get a continuation of tortured writer Alan Wake's story from Remedy, after its universe was tied into that of Control in that game's last expansion. The new Alan Wake will apparently skew more into survival horror rather than action, which sounds nice and scary.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake
- Release date: TBC
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on PC
- Publisher: Sony
Arguably the best Star Wars game of all time is getting a fresh lick of paint, rebuilt from the ground up for the PS5 and presumably bringing the old game's turn-based combat up to modern standards. The story of Darth Revan is one of the greatest gaming's known, so we can't wait to see some gameplay.
Marvel's Wolverine
- Release date: TBC
- PS5 exclusive? Yes
- Publisher: Sony
Marvel has clearly taken notice of the stellar work that Insomniac has done with Spider-Man, though, as it's been given the keys to another of its biggest names - Wolverine. The X-Man will be slicing his way to the PS5 at some point in the future, although we don't have an idea of when that'll be as yet.
Wonder Woman
- Release date: TBC
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on Xbox and PC
- Publisher: Warner Bros.
The DC universe is getting into the swing of things as far as gaming adaptations are concerned, and Wonder Woman is now in the lineup, although we don't have either a firm idea of what gameplay will look like or a release date.
It's a fairly safe bet that it'll be some sort of beat-em-up, though, and we're down to see how her famous set of moves could feel to control.
Star Wars Eclipse
- Release date: TBC
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on Xbox and PC
- Publisher: LucasFilm Games
It's super early in development, but if this moody CGI trailer is anything to go by, the next big game from Quantic Dream could take us to some interesting new locations in the Star Wars universe. It's set during the High Republic, a new part of the timeline that is being explored by other creators, too.
Grand Theft Auto 6
- Release date: TBC
- PS5 exclusive? No, also on Xbox Series X and PC
- Publisher: Rockstar
There are almost too many rumours swirling around Rockstar's likely next game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise to adequately summarise, but suffice to say that it almost has to be on the way.
At the moment speculation is rife that it will see players return to Vice City and the surrounding area, but nothing is confirmed yet. Still, it's almost guaranteed that one of the world's biggest entertainment franchises will make its way to the PS5 before long.
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