Death Stranding 2 faced a formidable array of rivals throughout the year.
Review aggregator Metacritic is currently summarizing the year’s cinematic and interactive highlights. A definitive list of the 20 most acclaimed projects for Sony’s hardware has recently been unveiled.
To ensure statistical relevance, each entry was required to have accumulated at least seven professional critic reviews.
The frontrunner is hardly a surprise to the gaming community (referring to the breakout hit from Sandfall Interactive). Notably, the top three also includes a high-profile title from Microsoft’s portfolio—Forza Horizon 5.
The top 20 PlayStation titles of 2025, ranked by their Metacritic scores:
- 20. Silent Hill f — 86 points
- 19. Ghost of Yotei — 86 points
- 18. Lumines Arise — 87 points
- 17. Absolum — 87 points
- 16. Shinobi: Art of Vengeance — 87 points
- 15. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II — 88 points
- 14. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle — 88 points
- 13. Final Fantasy Tactics — 88 points
- 12. Sword of the Sea — 88 points
- 11. Sektori — 88 points
- 10. BALL x PIT — 88 points
- 9. Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter — 88 points
- 8. Monster Hunter Wilds — 88 points
- 7. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — 89 points
- 6. Dispatch — 89 points
- 5. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector — 90 points
- 4. Split Fiction — 91 points
- 3. Forza Horizon 5 — 92 points
- 2. Hollow Knight: Silksong — 92 points
- 1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — 92 points
Source: iXBT.games