These games are a must-have for anyone who has either managed to procure or is planning to buy Sony's current-gen machine.
Increased PS5 sales for the week resulted in Horizon Forbidden West rising to seventh place, with sales up by 141 percent.
Stray, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 have also been nominated for the Game of the Year category.
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These games are the absolute cream of the crop when it comes to the open-world genre.
The engine behind Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West, and Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is apparently being used for several games in PlayStation Studios.
Also mentioned are an open world game from Sumo Digital, a survival horror title by Firesprite, and a Returnal PC port.
Lance Redddick, who plays Sylens in the Horizon games, recently published (and promptly deleted) a tweet that suggests Horizon Forbidden West is getting an expansion.
Various fixes for bugs and Main Quests are also live. Improvements to TAA on PS4 and PS5 Resolution Mode have also been done.
Two Point Studios' management sim made a big impact on release but Horizon Forbidden West continues to reign on top.
Monolith Soft and Nintendo's Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which debuted on top of the charts last week, falls to No. 10.
Playing these games a second time around is more or less essential for having the complete experience.
Whether through multiple play styles, emergent gameplay, or an unparalleled amount of freedom, these 15 titles offer tons of gameplay variety.
Guerrilla Games' open world action RPG saw a 120% increase in sales over last week, thanks almost entirely to its PS5 version.
These recent single player games offer some amazing boss fights that will stay with you long after the credits roll. And oh, you will find nothing from the Soulsborne genre here.
Variable Refresh Rate supports dynamic resolution scaling at 60 Hz. It also targets a 60-120 Hz refresh rate along with High Refresh Rate mode.
Expect gorgeous open worlds, photorealistic vehicles, dazzling effects and much more among the best-looking games of the year so far.
After debuting at number one last week, Mario Strikers: Battle League falls to third place. Meanwhile, The Quarry goes from fourth to seventh.
These games are the absolute cream of the crop when it comes to the open-world stealth subgenre.
The PlayStation action RPG saw a 31% week-on-week boost in sales thanks to sustained improvements in the PS5's supplies.
Fixes for progression blockers, improved visuals in Performance Mode, and more added along with New Game+, Ultra Hard difficulty, and so on.
