Best PSN games

You already own a PlayStation console and are satisfied with the varied catalog that this one offers you; after many hours of fun, however, you are looking for something new, for a title that catches your attention and tempts you to embark on a new gaming adventure, perhaps online, since you have just activated your PlayStation Network profile. The problem is that there is so much choice that you can’t find your way around the library PSN allows you to access.

If that’s the case, don’t worry, I’m here to guide you through this research and suggest what are, in my opinion and according to the critics and the gamer community, the best PSN games. The PlayStation Network account allows you to play online in multiplayer mode, share the game experience with friends and access the PlayStation Store online store, where you can download applications, movies, music and, of course, video games.

If you’ve set up your account, you’ve already had the chance to try out some of the best titles on the PlayStation catalog, but choosing a new game can be tricky. In this guide, I have therefore decided to offer you various interesting titles focusing on those that include the online mode, allowed by the PSN service. So take a few minutes, make yourself comfortable and dedicate yourself to reading the next paragraphs: I’m sure you will find a title to your taste. Enjoy your reading and have fun!

Index

• How to access the PSN
• Best free PSN games
• Best paid PSN games
• Best PSN games with VR

How to access the PSN

If you have just purchased a PS4 or a PS5 and want to enjoy its online content (available for all the titles I am about to tell you), you must create or log in to your PlayStation Network account. In this case, don’t worry – the procedure is neither complex nor expensive. Creating a PSN account is completely free and immediate. All you have to do is access the Settings from the console, or connect to the PlayStation website on the appropriate page. For more details, I invite you to read my tutorial on how to log in to your PSN account, where I illustrated step by step the registration and access procedure both from the console and from the PC.

I would like to remind you, however, that creating a PlayStation Network account does not give access to the online multiplayer mode of PS4 and PS5 titles (except free-to-play ones, based on their own servers). To take advantage of this feature and others, such as free game downloads every month and exclusive PlayStation Store discounts, you need to activate a PlayStation Plus membership.

Once you have configured your account, you can immediately start browsing the online video game catalog from the PlayStation Store and choose which of the titles I am about to offer you will be your new adventure. If you’re ready, let’s get started!

Best free PSN games

PSN offers a selection for all budgets: many video games are free to download. These titles include in-app purchases via micro-transactions, but are often not necessary to play at all: they offer a purely aesthetic advantage, or access to some limited characters and weapons while not hindering progress.

Genshin Impact

You may have heard of Genshin Impact, a free to play and open world fantasy RPG developed by the Chinese company miHoYo, which has experienced such global success that it has become one of the most played in the world in just a few months.

Genshin Impact takes place in a world with breathtaking landscapes, detailed and pleasant graphics and environments to be explored, with numerous missions to be faced with a fully customizable team: the characters of Genshin Impact are many and varied, with different types of skills and weapons and lots of personality that reflects their role in the plot, to be discovered with every interaction. Players can collaborate on missions, explore their respective worlds, and help each other in the interactive challenges and events released with each patch.

Path Of Exile

Path of Exile is a free to play action RPG developed by Grinding Gear Games, which offers online features and gameplay focused on the use of melee weapons in a world populated by monsters and steeped in darkness, the continent Wraeclast. Players take on challenges in a highly specialized way thanks to the complex character customization system with individual stat boosts, special abilities and equipment of different types of gems.

The player, exiled from society and forced to survive in the wastes and hostile lands of the continent, is attacked by hordes of monsters to defeat. The world of Path Of Exile can accommodate hundreds of thousands of players and has a high degree of replayability thanks to the random generation of levels. Players can also meet and gather in common areas, to exchange items and weapons, or participate in PvP tournaments in which to use all the skills they have learned.

Fortnite

Fortnite, developed by Epic Games, needs no introduction: it is one of the most played free to play titles on PlayStation 4, a global phenomenon that entertains a userbase of millions of gamers every day.

Gamers’ favorite mode is Battle Royale: 100 players are transported to an island to fight each other using only the weapons and objects found on the map, and an automatically equipped pickaxe. If you want more information on this title, I recommend reading my tutorial on how Fortnite’s Battle Royale works and I invite you to consult the page of my site dedicated to Fortnite, where you can find detailed tutorials on the game.

eFootball PES LITE

Football fans need no introduction for this title: Konami’s famous football saga, Pro Evolution Soccer (PES), also has a Lite version available starting in 2019. It is free to download and offers three online multiplayer modes: Exhibition, Training and myClub.

In particular, myClub allows you to build your own team and challenge other players online. The micro-transactions available in the game allow you to buy real money players and managers and progress more easily, but many users have not needed them to build their dream team. I warn you, however, that you must have a PlayStation Plus subscription to play the online modes.

Other valid free PSN games

The PlayStation Network catalog also includes many other valid free to play video games: here are some of the ones I think are most interesting.

• Warframe– Warframe is a third person shooter game, with a futuristic setting and many activities to do, both in PvE and in collaboration with other players, to face together bosses and new challenges traveling between the Planets in the vast open world.
• Apex Legends– Apex Legends is a Battle Royale video game that allows you to choose a character from a wide list, each with unique abilities, to participate in Apex Games by joining forces in a team with other players.
• Rocket League– Rocket League is a sports video game in which the player aims to send the greatest number of balls into the opponent’s goal: however, cars, the Battle-Cars, compete against each other, even in competitive online mode.
• Destiny 2– Destiny 2 is an action MMO in which the player is part of a team of defenders of the Last City of humanity, discovering the mysteries of the solar system via the first-person combat system, in competitive and cooperative modes.
• Dauntless– a title often compared to Monster Hunter, Dauntless is an action game that allows players to challenge monsters in online co-op mode with a distinctive cartoon style.
• Brawlhalla– is a fighting game with online and local competitions, to compete as the greatest warriors in history to decide who will be the best, choosing from 8 free to play characters in rotation every week.

For more tips, don’t forget to check out my tutorial with the best free-to-play for PS4.

Best paid PSN games

The games I am about to offer you now are paid and require the purchase of the base game, in digital or physical format, in addition to the PlayStation Plus subscription to access the online features.

Grand Theft Auto Online (GTA 5)

If you are an avid gamer you will certainly know GTA, or Grand Theft Auto, the popular video game series developed by Rockstar Games. GTA 5’s online mode allows access to a free session across the entire playable map, to be explored alone or with other players with a fully customizable character on first launch.

Available activities are Co-op Missions entrusted by GTA characters and require collaboration with other players; the Versus Missions to complete in teams, and Deathmatch to compete in PvP mode or team against team; finally, the shots of Lester, the character who instructs the player to commit robberies which, if carried out in collaboration with other online players in different roles, offer greater rewards. These are just some of the many game modes offered: for all the details of the case, I invite you to read my guide on how to play GTA online.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Online

You may already know Red Dead Redemption 2, the Rockstar Games title winner of the Best Narrative award at The Game Awards in 2018, considered by many to be the best action-adventure on PlayStation 4. With a western setting and a solid storyline on the themes of morality individual, critics have defined it as the most immersive open world ever.

It is a unique adventure, to be experienced in all its details: and this is exactly what the online version allows you to do, also offering an additional storyline and the ability to challenge or collaborate with other players online by creating your own character, and entering the history in the roles of collector, bounty hunter, trader, naturalist and distiller.

Nioh 2

Nioh 2 is an action RPG developed by Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo Games, set in the Sengoku era in Japan, plagued by war and infested with evil spirits and monsters. The plot intertwines historical events with the legends of Japanese folklore and players can create their own character, a lone mercenary who is actually a yokai spirit: by defeating enemy monsters, supernatural abilities are obtained that can be used in battle against other yokai and warlords.

Nioh 2 has a particular Visitors mode, accessible in the Benevolent Tombs, from which up to two players can be summoned to receive assistance during combat; in addition, it includes a real online co-op mode called Expeditions that allows you to join friends and play the completed levels together.

DOOM Eternal Battle Mode

DOOM Eternal is one of the best first person shooter video games, developed by id Software. In this title, the armies of hell have invaded the Earth, and the single player takes on the role of the Slayer in an epic interdimensional campaign to conquer demons to stop the destruction of humanity.

DOOM Eternal also features a Battle Mode version, an asymmetrical multiplayer mode that offers one-on-two discounts: the Slayer, armed to the teeth, must face a demonic duo controlled by other players, making the most of their skills and new mechanics resource hunt in an arena. The game dynamics reflect those of the main mode and how it requires strategy, skill and awareness of the balance between attack and defense.

Other valid PSN paid games

Obviously, the library of PlayStation paid titles is vast and varied, and in addition to those already mentioned, I recommend some of the others that offer gaming experiences you can’t miss.

• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout– a Battle Royale-style MMO game that allows over 60 players to compete online in an increasingly chaotic battle, with bizarre obstacles to overcome in order to defeat other players and reach glory. Read more here.
• Bloodborne– the well-known souls like and dark fantasy title also offers an online mode that allows you to summon other players for help during boss battles and collaborate, or fight invasion by enemy players in PvP mode.
• Final Fantasy XIV Online– The MMORPG of the Final Fantasy series includes a 30-day free trial period and allows the creation of a fully customized character with which to explore the kingdom of Eorzea and join over 22 million players worldwide.
• Monster Hunter: World– is the fifth installment of the classic Monster Hunter series, in which you take on the role of a hunter to slay monsters, taking advantage of the natural advantages of the landscape. It is also available in cooperative online mode, with up to three other players.
• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare– the famous first person shooter allows you to play online campaigns as a team or face the challenges of Special Operations in maps and multiplayer modes. Read more here.
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited– is the MMORPG of The Elder Scrolls saga, with nine playable races, different classes and skills to be developed in cooperative and competitive missions by combining weapons and armor to define your own style of play.

Best PSN games with VR

If you have virtual reality headsets available, here are some of the best games that include a VR mode, playable online and even in multiplayer.

Farpoint

Farpoint is a virtual reality shooter video game, the first developed entirely for VR by Impulse Gear and published exclusively for PlayStation 4.

The game allows you to take on the role of a scientist who, during a routine mission, is missing on a dangerous alien planet. Armed only with basic equipment, he must survive a hostile environment. Farpoint offers two online multiplayer modes for two players, one cooperative and one competitive: you can survive together in alien environments, or compete in PvP mode.

Rec Room

Rec Room is a virtual reality video game developed by Rec Room Inc .: it is, at the same time, a real social space and a video game, an eccentric, fun and free title.

Entering the Rec Room, hence the title of the game, you can chat with friends and participate in mini-games such as ping pong and paintball, try to overcome “missions” together, or just relax in the park. Players can discover thousands of rooms created by other users every day, or create their own room.

STAR WARS: Squadrons

Star Wars: Squadrons is a video game set in the Star Wars universe, in which the pilots are the real protagonists: the PlayStation VR technology allows you to experience the star fights firsthand in the multiplayer mode. In addition, it allows you to customize the equipment and cosmetic elements, choose the configuration of energy, weapons, shields and engines from the cockpit.

The game offers two online multiplayer modes: 5 vs 5 players can challenge each other in team space battles, or in Fleet Battles, much more complex. In this mode, the two sides place all types of aircraft on the battlefield for a larger and truly immersive conflict.

Solaris Offworld Combat

Solaris Offworld Combat is an exciting shooter that allows you to challenge other players in 4v4 in arenas where you can run, sprint and attack, collecting weapons and items useful for battle.

Team collaboration and competition against opponents for victory can take place in seven different maps and allows you to experience the fun of battle in a futuristic world with a wide variety of weapons.

Other valid PSN games with VR

The catalog of video games with VR is constantly expanding: below you will find some of the other most interesting titles.

• Eagle Flight– developed exclusively for VR, Eagle Flight brings the thrill of flying over the skies of Paris as an eagle, fifty years after humanity disappeared from the earth. The multiplayer mode allows you to form a team and compete in air battles.
• Tumble– the VR puzzle Tumble allows you to play even in multiplayer online sessions, challenging each other in the construction of towers using pieces of all shapes, weights and sizes and in the destruction of opposing ones with mines to be placed in strategic points.
• RIGS Mechanized Combat League– RIGS is a shooter sports game in which players pilot a “RIG”, an armed mech, to challenge other powerful machines even in multiplayer mode, forming a team and facing opponents from all over the world.
• Firewall Zero Hour– with this shooter players can take to the battlefield and plan tactical attacks in teams, recruiting mercenaries and seeking information to implement war plans in 4v4 online battles.
• Werewolves Within– this title combines the fun of board games with virtual reality, allowing 5-8 players to sit in a circle and deduce who, in reality, is the werewolf who terrorizes the medieval village in which the game is set.

If you want to know even more titles and compare the best video games offered by the PlayStation catalog, I recommend reading some of my guides on the subject, where I have provided an exhaustive list of the best PS4 games and the best PS4 exclusives. Finally, if you are interested in PlayStation’s cloud gaming service, I recommend the best PS Now games here.

 

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