August 15 2019

Best Games On PlayStation Now

Once it became clear that Netflix and other streaming services would dominate the movie and television space for the foreseeable future, it was only a matter of time before video games would start taking advantage of the same business model. Personally, I prefer to own physical copies of my games whenever possible, but there are definitely some big upsides to the indefinite rental model.

For $19.99 per month, PlayStation Now gives you unlimited access to over 600 PS2, PS3, and PS4 games that you can download, play, and delete at your leisure. And guess what? You don’t even have to have a PlayStation. That’s right, if you have a gaming-ready PC, you can play all of those PlayStation games there, too. And if you have both a PC and a PS4, you can even use the same save files in the same games across both platforms. How cool is that?

With so many awesome old and new games available, it’s hard to pick a handful of favorites. Here’s a varied selection of a dozen excellent PlayStation Now games that you can try today with a 7-day free trial.


#1 Limbo

Simply put, Limbo is one of the best horror(ish) games of all time. If you’ve never played it, you owe it to yourself to change that.

Gameplay

Like Journey (which was featured in our roundup of the best PS4 exclusives), Limbo is a totally language-free experience. There’s no dialogue, and the only written words you’ll see (barring a few signs) are in the game’s pithy official description: “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy enters Limbo.” That’s it. That’s all you get for background—and it was a superb design choice.

Limbo

Limbo is a black-and-white side-scrolling puzzle platformer in which you control a young boy searching for his sister. You’ll guide him through quiet forests inhabited by not-so-quiet giant spiders, crumbling industrial sectors, and dank sewers, dodging traps and monsters along the way. The controls are ultra-simple; you can jump, climb, duck, and push things around, and that’s about it.

Limbo is short—it’s entirely possible to finish the game in an hour or two, though your first run should take closer to five—but it’s a tense, enjoyable ride.

Graphics

Everything in Limbo is black, white, or gray. It’s dreary, and the color palette, along with the environment design, makes you feel very much alone. Still, the strange dream world you travel through has occasional signs of vibrant life, and small touches like the boy’s running animation—which is purposeful and lively—keep you motivated to press on.

(Also, no spoilers, but there are a few creatures that are more terrifying as monochrome silhouettes than they would be if you could see them in full detail.)

Story

What you see is what you get. A kid has gone missing, and her brother is her only hope. Every other unanswered question about what’s going on is yours to answer as you will.

Coop/Multiplayer

Limbo is single-player only.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

This is the kind of game that you settle in to play when you’re home alone on a rainy night, several hours after the sun has gone down. It’s creepy and unsettling, but not terrifying—not on the same level and in the same respect as Alien: Isolation, for instance. The puzzles will challenge you, but their solutions are not so obscure as to be frustrating. You should definitely give Limbo a try, even if it’s not the sort of game you normally play.


#2 Ico

I’m aware that this is a somewhat heretical opinion, but I actually think 2001’s Ico is a slightly better game than its successor, Shadow of the Colossus. If you haven’t played it, you’re missing out!

Gameplay

Like Limbo, Ico is an almost entirely language-free game. Its two protagonists speak different languages; they can’t understand each other, and you can’t understand either of them. You’ll control twelve-year-old Ico as he searches for a way out of an abandoned castle, guiding and protecting a mysterious girl named Yorda.

Ico combat

Ico is part action-adventure game, part puzzle-platformer. Ico is athletic and nimble, whereas Yorda is physically weak, though she has certain powers that will help the pair navigate dangerous terrain and fend off mysterious shadow creatures. You’ll need to combine the kids’ different abilities in creative ways in order to explore and eventually escape the enormous castle.

Graphics

Ico (the game, not the character) is now 18 years old, so grant it its age. Still, it’s far from ugly. The environment design is its strongest visual element; deep ravines, overgrown cliffs, and dusty living quarters are both intriguing and haunting, and interactable objects are organically blended into the terrain.

There are a lot of subtle fog, lighting, and particle effects in Ico, and they’re truly impressive for a game this old. Some of the characters’ animations are pretty goofy, but let’s cut the animators some slack—this was well before affordable motion capture technology, after all. Overall, Ico is a gorgeous game that’s aged pretty well.

Story

The titular protagonist, Ico, is a young boy who was born with horns. In a disturbing but unsurprising display of superstitious irrationality, the elders of his village decided that he must be a demon child and voted to lock him in a coffin and let him slowly die. See how dangerous pure democracy can be? The Greeks did the same thing to Socrates.

Fortunately, Ico manages to break out of the coffin, only to find that he’s been abandoned in a creepy old castle. He’s not alone, either—a girl his own age is locked up in a cage nearby. He frees her, and they work together to escape (and, presumably, to find a better place to live afterward). The way out isn’t easy, though; a malevolent antagonist has unsavory plans for Yorda…

Coop/Multiplayer

In the original Japanese and European versions of the game, it was possible to unlock a secret 2-player mode after finishing the game once, but that feature was never present in the North American release. It’s unclear whether the bonus coop mode made it into the PlayStation Now version, but it seems unlikely, as does the prospect that it would support online play if it did exist.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Ico is one of the most charming, heartwarming, and unique platformers of the PS2 era. If you never played it back in its heyday, it’s never too late to catch up.


#3 Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

Borderlands popularized the loot shooter genre, but Borderlands 2 perfected it. Borderlands: The Handsome Collection contains Borderlands 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and every single piece of extra content ever released for them.

Gameplay

Both games place you in the shoes of one of several Vault Hunters: intrepid adventurers who roam the galaxy in search of legendary treasure troves scattered across hundreds of planets. Over the course of 150+ hours across both games, you’ll help a preteen girl build missiles, settle (or exacerbate) a clan war between Irishmen and rednecks, and, of course, kill bandits at a rate of roughly ten per second.

Borderlands The Handsome Collection

The series’s rinse-and-repeat structure of “get a gun, kill a dude, take his gun, and throw away your old one” might get old fast if not for the exceptionally funny writing and huge variety of quest objectives. Whereas many RPG-shooters are exhaustingly drab in their quest design, almost no two missions in any Borderlands game are the same.

If you don’t mind a bit of grinding, the end-game content in Borderlands 2 supports almost indefinite progression through the Overpower tiers, which allow you to repeat missions at ever-increasing difficulty levels and score truly legendary loot in the process.

Graphics

Borderlands 2 is still a gorgeous game seven years after its release, as is its (pre?)successor. The unique combination of cartoony cel-shaded graphics, bright color palettes, and insane violence is an unforgettable aesthetic that few other games have tried to replicate.

Story

A bad dude by the name of Handsome Jack, president of the weapons manufacturing company Hyperion, wants to open the aforementioned vaults for nefarious purposes. Your job is to get to them first and happily claim all the goodies within as your fee for saving the universe.

Really, the main storylines in all of the Borderlands games are just excuses to get you on the planet. The funnier and more interesting quests are the huge numbers of side jobs you’ll undertake while you’re there.

Coop/Multiplayer

All of the Borderlands games can be played alone, and you can have a perfectly good time by doing so, but they’re far better with friends. The first game’s online lobbies are pretty much dead by now, but Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel both still have active multiplayer communities, and it’s usually not too hard to find people to group up with.

Borderlands The Handsome Collection characters

Most (if not all) of the optional end-game content is basically impossible to tackle alone; you’ll need a well-oiled and well-equipped party of four to conquer the raid bosses.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Simply put, Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel are two of the best multiplayer shooters ever released. I’ve logged a little more than 1,000 hours in the three games combined (mostly in 2), and I can’t recommend them highly enough.


#4 Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor

What do the Lord of the Rings and Alien franchises have in common? They both have a ton of crappy video games and only a small handful of great ones. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor is certainly good enough to be worth playing.

Gameplay

Shadow of Mordor is an open-world action RPG that takes place between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. Melee, ranged, and stealth combat are all viable options, and you’ll need to make use of all of them as you single-handedly cut down hordes of Sauron’s minions. The game’s unique Nemesis system is one of its primary draws. As you slaughter orcs, others will move up the chain of command and become more powerful.

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor

Any orc that kills you will be promoted, and, like you, they’ll be immune to being permanently killed from then on (though the explanation for their immortality is much flimsier than the one behind your own). Invariably, you’ll find the same handful of orcs—your nemeses—coming back to challenge you time and again, dropping better rewards each time you best them.

Graphics

Shadow of Mordor is a good-looking game, particularly when it comes to the environments. It’s hard to forget the sheer size of the enemy you face as you trudge through squishy mud pits churned into disgusting quagmires by millions of gross orc feet, with Sauron’s massive watchtowers rising high above even the tallest cliffs.

Given that there are often many dozens of enemies on-screen, the character models aren’t as pretty as they are in some other games, but visual concessions sometimes have to be made in the name of performance.

Story

The story follows a human Ranger named Talion who dies in the first ten minutes of the game, but is resurrected by Celebrimbor, who’s also dead. Yes, that Celebrimbor, the guy who forged the Rings of Power.

Talion and Celebrimbor both have very understandable personal grudges against Sauron. They’d surely fight his armies just because he sucks, of course, but the revenge angle adds some extra depth to their characters and serves to underpin the brutal (but necessary, and completely justifiable) tactics that they employ against the Dark Lord’s underlings.

Coop/Multiplayer

Shadow of Mordor is single-player only, but its sequel, Shadow of War (which is not currently on PlayStation Now) does have some interesting PvP components. Both games feature a Vendetta system that rewards other players for killing an orc that has previously killed you, which is often a satisfying source of extra loot for both players.

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor gameplay

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Historically, most Lord of the Rings video games have been brightly colored high-fantasy adventures that eschew certain unpleasant facts about war in favor of holding onto their Teen ESRB ratings.

Shadow of Mordor never hesitates to remind the player just how vicious war can be, at least to the extent that a video game is capable of doing so. It’s an excellent, dark, mature take on Lord of the Rings that anyone who isn’t bothered by the violence should play.


#5 Trine

Sadly, couch coop games are becoming rarer all the time. Trine can be played online with others, but it’s one of those games that’s just a little bit better when your friends are in the same room.

Gameplay

A third-rate wizard, a thief, and a knight with a heart of gold accidentally disturb an ancient artifact. The beginning of Trine sounds like a dumb D&D joke, but it sets up one of the best and most underappreciated coop puzzle-platformers of all time.

trine

Two or three players can work together to guide the Trine trio through lush forests, dark caves, and abandoned mines. Each character has different abilities: the knight is the fighter and has little utility outside of combat; the wizard can conjure bridges and crates useful for solving puzzles; and the thief has a bow and a grappling hook, both of which are useful in and out of combat.

Each character’s abilities can be upgraded over time, and you can even swap characters with other players on the fly. Most puzzles are tricky enough to require some thought, but not overly obscure or difficult. All in all, it’s a highly entertaining and very well-balanced coop game.

Graphics

Trine is a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer with beautiful artwork. The game is a decade old by now, but it’s aged quite well. Its simple but elegant graphics help to ensure that it downloads quickly and runs smoothly.

Story

The plot of Trine is a pretty standard one: a group of unlikely heroes must set aside their differences to save a kingdom on the verge of collapse. The narrative isn’t especially deep or intriguing, but that’s okay, because Trine is not primarily concerned with telling a story. It’s just a fun way to spend an afternoon with your buddies, and there’s value in that, to be sure.

Coop/Multiplayer

Trine can be played by anywhere from 1–3 players, online or locally.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

There are three (soon to be four!) games in the Trine series, though only the first is currently available on PlayStation Now. Go play it to see if you’re tempted to pick up the others—I think you will be.


#6 Kickbeat

If you like rhythm games, Kickbeat is a fun time-killer that’s light on content, but still worth spending a few dozen hours on.

Gameplay

If you’ve ever wanted to dance-fight a bunch of ninjas that politely wait their turn to attack, that’s a weird fantasy, but you can live it in Kickbeat. Your character (a male or female wushu student) stands in the center of a circle as enemies close in from the outer edges, attacking in sync with the music. Time your counterattacks perfectly and you’ll knock them out of the circle, but you’ll take damage if you mess up.

Kickbeat

That’s the whole game, really. It’s a simple formula, but it’s an entertaining and mildly addictive one. Small extras like powerups, a truly punishing Master mode, and custom soundtracks (for the Steam version only) keep things fresh enough that you can easily sink a few days into it.

Graphics

Kickbeat is a relatively low-budget game, but that’s not always a bad thing. Visually, it’s simple, and the character models are a bit blocky, but look on the bright side—that means it loads quickly and practically guarantees you’ll never have performance problems.

Story

Your master’s Martial Arts School for Good Guys is under attack by colorful ninjas from a rival school who have stolen most of the world’s music (a truly impressive feat in the digital age). You and only you have the power to repel them and return music to the world… mostly because you’re the one who was there at the time.

Coop/Multiplayer

Sadly, there’s no way to play Kickbeat with friends.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Kickbeat’s biggest weakness is a lack of content. The Steam version lets you import your own music to play along to, but the console versions only have 24 songs. The game probably won’t hold your interest for hundreds of hours, but it’s a ton of fun while it lasts.


#7 Fallout: New Vegas

Fallout: New Vegas is arguably the best Fallout game of all time—certainly the best since the series went 3D, in my view—and it’s not hard to see why.

Gameplay

The number of different ways you can play Fallout: New Vegas is staggering. You can be a grizzled Old West gunslinger, a (kind of) pacifistic trader, a mad scientist who collects alien technology, a monk who doesn’t use weapons or armor, or any of dozens of other weird archetypes.

Fallout New Vegas

New Vegas is built to be equal parts shooter and RPG, and it’s amazingly flexible. There are so many quests and factions in the game that you can play through it ten times with ten completely different characters and still not experience all it has to offer.

Graphics

New Vegas came out in 2010, and it’s definitely starting to show its age in the graphics department. Visually, it was a little clunky even by the standards of its time, but given how massive the game is, that’s understandable—developers can only cram so much data onto a disc or into a download.

If you’re playing the game on PlayStation Now, you won’t be able to mod it, but it’s easy to get so immersed in New Vegas that you completely forget how old it looks.

Story

Your character, a nameless Courier, takes a seemingly routine job to deliver a package, but gets ambushed and shot in the head along the way. Roll credits, right? Not quite. Fortunately, the bullet to the brain didn’t quite kill you (it does happen from time to time), and even more fortunately, the guy who finds you is a surgeon. After some rest and healing, it’s time for revenge.

The main quest in New Vegas initially revolves around tracking down the guy who shot you, but soon unfolds into something much bigger. There are enormous side quest chains to tackle if you so choose, too. It takes hundreds of hours to uncover every bit of content the game has to offer.

Coop/Multiplayer

It is with immense sadness that I report that Fallout: New Vegas is single-player only. (Sit down, Fallout 76, you’re still terrible.)

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

I love all of the Fallout games up through Fallout 4, but New Vegas is my favorite, hands-down. If you’re even the tiniest bit interested in open-world RPGs that let you do almost anything with your character, you simply have to play this one.


#8 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Yes, Revengeance is the goofiest and least Metal-Gear-like game of the Metal Gear franchise. That’s why it’s worth playing.

Gameplay

I’m completely confident that if you were to ask every gamer in the world what franchise comes first to mind when you say “stealth game,” “Metal Gear” would be the overwhelmingly most common response. Revengeance often gets flak from series fans merely for being the exact opposite of a stealth game, but that particular criticism is unfair.

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance combat

There are precisely no stealth sections in this game, with one very short and very limited exception. It’s a hyper-fast melee action game that emphasizes quick reflexes and precise timing above all else. A unique Blade Mode allows you to carefully aim Raiden’s sword and slice along any axis using the analog sticks; it’s useful both in combat and to avoid or deflect certain ranged attacks.

Graphics

Revengeance is a beautiful game with crisp character models and lots of environmental variety. Even today, six years after its release, Blade Mode, which allows you to cut enemies and objects in any way and see the pieces separate accordingly, is a particularly impressive graphical achievement.

Story

You control Raiden in the action-packed Revengeance, and he’s grown up a lot since Sons of Liberty. The former whiny brat is now a much more level-headed (and much more dangerous) cyborg warrior who’s out to stop an insane U.S. politician from destroying the entire world in the name of rebuilding it according to his particularly insane vision.

If only that last part weren’t something that’s actually happening on a daily basis in the real world right now.

Coop/Multiplayer

There’s no multiplayer mode in Revengeance.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Revengeance sold reasonably well, but it could have and should have sold much better. It’s a fantastic action game, and I’m convinced that the main reason it didn’t become a platinum hit is because some stodgy old Metal Gear fans refused to give it a chance merely because it’s an action game. Don’t be like them. Give Revengeance a chance to impress you. Check out our guide on Metal Gear game order as well!


#9 Beyond: Two Souls

Beyond: Two Souls is the most explicitly narrative-driven game on this list, and it falls into that category of interactive movies that gamers tend to either love or hate.

Gameplay

If you’ve played Heavy Rain, Until Dawn, or Detroit: Become Human, then you know what to expect from Beyond: Two Souls (three of these four games were developed by the same studio). The game’s writer and director has stated in interviews that he likes to make “interactive storytelling games that can be played by everyone, including non-gamers.”

Beyond Two Souls

To that end, Beyond: Two Souls is very simple, mechanically speaking. You can make totally-not-Ellen-Page walk around, examine objects, and mash her way through QTEs during action scenes, and that’s about it. The focus here is very much on the characters and the story, not on fast reflexes or complex subsystems.

Graphics

Beyond: Two Souls was a great-looking game when in came out in 2013, and it still holds up today. Ellen Page’s character model is lifelike enough that some people went through a lot of trouble to hack the game and download nude models, if that tells you anything.

Story

As a young girl, Ellen Page Jodie Holmes demonstrated an undeniable ability to psychically possess other people and to telekinetically manipulate certain objects. Her abilities stem from some kind of connection to an otherworldly entity she refers to as Aiden, and when her ghost-bro almost kills a kid who bullies her, Jodie’s parents dump her in a government lab with Willem Dafoe. Poor kid.

As Jodie grows up, she understandably gets tired of being confined to a government bunker all the time and wants to live her own life at some point. Chaos ensues as she struggles to free herself from the control of bureaucrats who want to weaponize her abilities while she simultaneously tries (and often fails) to control them herself.

Coop/Multiplayer

Beyond: Two Souls is a story-driven single-player experience.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Many gamers, especially young ones, have little patience for games that aren’t all explosions, all the time, and that’s sad. Beyond: Two Souls takes a while to get going, and there’s a good reason for that. If you’re willing to let the game move at its own pace and tell you a fascinating story in its own way, you’ll have a great time with it.


#10 Resident Evil Code: Veronica X

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X certainly isn’t unheard of, but it’s one of the less popular Resident Evil games. That’s a shame, because it’s one of the best.

Gameplay

If you didn’t grow up with “tank controls,” you may find Resident Evil Code: Veronica X difficult to play. I implore you to be patient and to mess around with the antiquated control scheme until you feel comfortable with it, because it’s a game that all survival horror fans must play at least once. The key to surviving Code: Veronica X is knowing when to run and when to fight. (Hint: run whenever possible.)

Resident Evil Code Veronica X

Modern survival horror games typically give the player so much ammo that they can hardly be called horror games; in these old-school Resident Evil titles, you must carefully manage supplies that are truly limited. It’s entirely possible to reach a point where it’s nearly impossible to progress because you’ve used up everything you’ve found so far. Be patient, cautious, and conservative.

Graphics

Considering that Code: Veronica X is a PS2 game from 2000, it looks remarkably good today. Heck, it looks better than some low-budget indie games coming out this year.

Story

After the events of Resident Evil 2 and 3, Claire Redfield—now a battle-hardened ex-college student—has invaded an Umbrella Pharmaceuticals lab in Europe, determined to take down the company responsible for the zombie outbreak that resulted in the total destruction of Raccoon City. Predictably, her solo assault on a heavily defended complex fails; she’s captured and sent to a wildly illegal prison on a remote island.

You’ve probably guessed by now that that island is about to have a zombie outbreak of its own. Claire will have a tough time escaping alive, especially with never-before-seen monsters roaming around…

Coop/Multiplayer

Like most Resident Evil games, Code: Veronica X has no multiplayer mode.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Resident Evil Code: Veronica X is best embraced as a whole package, terrible voice acting and all. It’s alternately amusing and butt-clenchingly terrifying. If you’re not completely enamored with the new action-oriented Resident Evil games and yearn for something slower and scarier, give this game a chance. If you’re into survival games, check out our guide on that as well!


#11 XCOM 2

These days, the turn-based strategy scene is kind of a desert. There may not be many new games in this genre on the horizon, but at least the generally excellent XCOM 2 will always be around to tide you over.

Gameplay

While it’s not strictly necessary to have played XCOM in order to get the most out of the sequel, it’s helpful because XCOM 2 has a fairly steep learning curve that can take time to master if you’re going in blind. You’ll play the game in two distinct but closely related modes: planning phases and combat missions.

xcom 2 war of the chosen alien

During planning phases, you’ll allocate your extremely limited resources to R&D projects, train your soldiers in specific skills, uncover and respond to (or ignore) side missions, and undertake intel-gathering operations on the world map. All of these activities will have significant effects on later combat missions, and you’ll have to weigh their rewards and risks carefully, because it’s completely impossible to do everything.

When you put your troops on the ground during missions, the resistance they face will be heavily influenced by what you’ve accomplished during previous planning phases. It’s still a two-way street, though; you can often find equipment and intel during battle that will unlock new research opportunities and side quests that aren’t discoverable otherwise.

Bear in mind that XCOM 2 has a reputation for being brutally difficult, especially on the truly masochistic Commander and Legend settings. You’ll need to be patient and clever to emerge victorious.

By the way, although PS4 players are out of luck when it comes to modding the game, if you’re considering picking it up on PC, we’ve got an awesome guide to eight of the best XCOM 2 mods right over here.

Graphics

XCOM 2 is a pretty good-looking game, though as an isometric strategy game, its top priority was never to be drop-dead gorgeous. The city streets and military bunkers you’ll see during most missions are nice to look at, but the character models are basic and not superbly detailed. That’s okay by me, though. 99% of the time, they’re just tiny figures on a grid, so you rarely see them closely enough to notice.

Story

Canonically, Earth lost the war against the aliens in XCOM. That doesn’t mean we can’t just start another one, though. Our entire planet is under martial law in XCOM 2, which is extremely uncool. As the unnamed Commander of XCOM, you’ll lead the fight to retake Earth and send the Advent packing once and for all.

XCOM 2 Gameplay

There’s one major problem: they’re working on a super secret doomsday project that, if completed, will crush the human freedom fighters for the foreseeable future. Not only are you seriously outnumbered, you’re also racing against an extremely unforgiving clock. Good luck.

Coop/Multiplayer

Given that XCOM 2 is a highly tactical strategy game, it makes sense that it’s single-player only.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

No doubt, XCOM 2 can be super frustrating at times. The doomsday clock advances rapidly even on easy mode, and you’ll almost certainly need to restart the campaign several times until you thoroughly master its flow. If you stick with it, I think you’ll find it to be a rewarding experience.


#12 Twisted Metal

If you never had a chance to play any of the Twisted Metal games on PS1 or PS2, that’s a terrible tragedy—but it’s one you can now (kind of) rectify on your PS4.

Gameplay

It’s bizarre how few vehicular combat games there have been in the last 20 years. Twisted Metal’s formula is beautifully simple: choose one of several cars that have unique weapons and special abilities, then go kill your friends (or the antiquated AI opponents) in a dozen or so cool maps.

Graphics

The Twisted Metal series has undergone several remasters and rereleases. As much as I’d love to see the original PS1 version on PlayStation Now, this version is a reboot from 2012 that was originally released for the PS3. The graphics are perfectly respectable for a game of its age, but you’ll undoubtedly notice that the buildings and some of the vehicles are rather blocky. Seriously, though, you should be driving fast enough that you don’t really notice.

Story

Lol, what story?

Coop/Multiplayer

This version of Twisted Metal can be played online with one (but only one) friend.

Overall Review/Final Thoughts

Yes, it’s old, and the controls will feel a bit weird if you don’t still play PS2 or PS3 games on a regular basis, but it’s a blast. You should totally give it a chance.


Final Verdict

When we put together these kinds of lists, we take care to include a wide variety of games so that there’s always something for everyone, but that does make it tricky to pick just one to recommend over all the others.

After careful deliberation, we cast our vote for Fallout: New Vegas as the best game you can stream on PlayStation Now. There’s just so much to do in that game and so many different ways to do it all that almost anyone can sink hundreds of hours into it.

If New Vegas is too violent for you or otherwise doesn’t seem like something you’d be into, consider Trine or Ico, both of which are family-friendly and relatively accessible. Hardcore strategy fans that haven’t yet gotten around to XCOM 2 should do so pronto, and horror fans who aren’t impressed with what’s coming out nowadays should give the old but excellent Resident Evil Code: Veronica X a chance to win them over.

There you have it, guys. Are there other PlayStation Now games you’re having a blast with that you want to let others know about?

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