41 Best PS5 Sci-Fi Games, Ranked

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action-adventure game set in Night City, a huge city fueled by power, style, and body changes. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw seeking a special implant that grants immortality. The game lets you heavily customize cyberware, skills, and your playstyle. Your choices shape the story and the world.

BioShock is a horror first-person shooter set in a steampunk underwater dystopia. Players modify their bodies with Plasmids, hack systems, upgrade weapons, craft new ammo, and try different combat tactics. Developers call it a spiritual successor to their System Shock 2 PC title. Critics praised BioShock's sound and visuals, its original plot, and its unique gameplay.

The sci-fi survival-horror classic Dead Space returns. The remake rebuilds the game for a deeper, more immersive feel. It brings stunning visuals, tense audio, and gameplay improvements. The remake stays true to the original game's thrilling vision.

Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game from the Alien franchise. As Amanda Ripley, Ellen Ripley's daughter, you move through a volatile world. A panicked population and an unpredictable Alien confront you constantly. You must gather resources, invent fixes, and use your smarts just to survive. Survivor mode lets you escape a special map with secondary goals while being hunted.

Explore a world rich with nature's beauty, populated by amazing, advanced machines. As Aloy, a young machine hunter, you must solve the world's mysteries and find your own future.

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, you control Adam Jensen, a security specialist assigned to guard one of America's experimental biotech firms. A black ops team breaks in and kills the scientists you protect, changing everything. As science turns soldiers and spies into super-enhanced beings, someone works hard to guide mankind's evolution. You must find out why—because your choices matter.

Helldivers 2 is a cooperative third-person shooter. Squads of up to four players deploy from orbit onto hostile planets for missions. Players pick weapon, armor, and stratagem loadouts. These allow you to call in orbital strikes, supply drops, vehicles, and turrets during fighting. Friendly fire always activates, demanding teammate coordination. A galactic war persists; community performance decides which planets are taken or lost.

Commander Shephard must prepare to lose everything to save the galaxy. Bring your allies and recruit the galaxy's fighting elite to fight the invading Reapers. Steel yourself; this is an astronomical mission demanding sacrifices. Face tougher choices and new, deadlier enemies. Arm yourself and prepare for an unforgettable intergalactic adventure. The game lets you shift the fight. Equip powerful new weapons fast using a new inventory system.

Horizon Forbidden West is an action RPG, the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn (2017). Players use a third-person view in a post-apocalyptic open world. Aloy, a machine hunter, travels across a western America wrecked by huge storms and deadly machines.

Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter from id Software, following Doom (2016). Players control the Doom Slayer fighting a demonic invasion of Earth. Combat centers on aggressive resource management. You gain health, armor, and ammo by executing, igniting, or chainsawing enemies. The game adds platforming sections, destructible enemy weak points, a bigger weapon set, and Battlemode, a multiplayer mode where one Slayer fights two player-controlled demons.

Death Stranding is an action game set in a post-apocalyptic United States. Sam Porter Bridges, a courier, controls the game. He reconnects isolated cities using a communication network while delivering cargo. The gameplay mixes traversal, resource management, and story. It focuses on social connection via asynchronous multiplayer. The game features unique mechanics, an atmospheric world, and philosophical ideas.

Stellar Blade is a third-person action-adventure set on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Eve, an elite soldier from an orbital colony, controls the game. She seeks to reclaim the planet from hostile Naytibas creatures. The combat system focuses on timing parrying and evasion. Skill gauges unlock strong attacks and buffs. Exploration covers ruined areas. Side quests come from NPC survivors in Xion, the last human city. Player choices shape the narrative with multiple endings.

Control is a third-person action-adventure game set in the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret U.S. government agency studying paranormal things. Players control Jesse Faden. She arrives at the Bureau's headquarters, the Oldest House, only to find it invaded by the Hiss. Gameplay mixes supernatural powers with a shape-shifting firearm. The environment reacts and breaks apart.

BioShock Infinite is the third game in the BioShock series. It does not directly follow or precede any previous BioShock game, but it uses a different setting. The game shares similar features, gameplay, and concepts with earlier titles. BioShock Infinite presents varied environments forcing players to adapt, offering different weapons and strategies for every situation. Interior areas involve close combat with enemies. Unlike Rapture games, Infinite features open spaces emphasizing sniping and ranged combat against enemies.

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a story-driven, single-player game. You play as a Jedi Padawan who barely escaped Order 66. This happened after Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. To rebuild the Jedi Order, you must gather pieces of your broken past to finish your training. You develop new Force abilities and master the lightsaber. You must stay ahead of the Empire and its deadly Inquisitors.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor continues Cal Kestis's story. This third-person, galaxy-spanning action-adventure game comes from Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games. Developed in collaboration, this single-player title picks up five years after Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. It follows Cal’s desperate fight as the galaxy sinks into darkness. The Empire pushes Cal to the edges, surrounding him with new and old threats. As one of the last Jedi Knights, Cal must make a stand during the gal.

In Prey, you wake up on Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in 2032. You are the subject of an experiment meant to change humanity forever. Things went wrong; hostile aliens overrun the station. You must survive being hunted. Dig into Talos I's dark secrets and your own past. Use station tools, your wits, weapons, and mind-bending abilities.

Mass Effect 3 is an action RPG. Commander Shepard leads a final campaign against the Reapers. The Reapers are a machine race that invaded Earth and conquers galaxies. Players recruit squad members from different species and classes. Forge alliances and make choices that decide who survives. Combat uses squad tactics, combining biotic and tech powers, blind fire, and enhanced melee attacks. A co-op mode lets up to four players fight waves to liberate zones.

Titanfall 2 is a first-person shooter featuring a single-player campaign and competitive multiplayer. The campaign follows a Militia rifleman who bonds with a Titan, a large bipedal mech, after his pilot dies. Gameplay mixes fast infantry movement, like wall-running and double-jumping, with sections where the player controls the Titan in combat. Multiplayer offers team modes where players fight as both Pilots and Titans on the same field.

Returnal is a 2021 roguelike third-person shooter. Housemarque developed it; Sony Interactive Entertainment published it. Selene Vassos, an astronaut, lands on Atropos searching for the "White Shadow" signal. Selene gets trapped in a time loop. After crashing on a shape-shifting alien planet, Selene fights hard for survival. Defeat forces the player to restart the entire journey.

Ratchet and Clank jump dimensions by hopping between worlds. They fight an evil emperor from another reality. Players move between action-packed worlds at mind-blowing speeds. The game features dazzling visuals and an insane arsenal.

Metro Exodus is an epic first-person shooter from 4A Games. It blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in an immersive game world. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels. Follow a thrilling story spanning a year through spring, summer, and autumn to nuclear winter. Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels inspire Metro Exodus, continuing Artyom’s story in a great Metro adventure.

Atomic Heart is an adventure first-person shooter. Events unfold in an alternate Soviet Union during high noon. The main character, special agent P-3, tries to figure out what went wrong after an unsuccessful landing on enterprise "3826".

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe with over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade gear while following a story about the mysterious Atlas. The game centers on exploration, survival, combat, and trading. Since 2016, free updates have added multiplayer, base building, fleet management, and virtual reality support.

Stray is a third-person cat adventure game. It is set in the neon-lit alleys of a decaying cybercity and its dark underbelly. Roam high and low. Defend against unexpected threats. Solve the mysteries of this unwelcoming place, filled with droids and dangerous creatures. See the world through a stray's eyes. Interact with the environment playfully. Be stealthy, nimble, silly, and sometimes annoying with this foreign world's inhabitants.

Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites) created High On Life. An alien cartel threatens humanity, planning to use people as drugs. You must rescue and team up with talking guns, take down Garmantuous and his gang, and save the world.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition collects the remastered Mass Effect trilogy: Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3. BioWare, with help from Abstraction Games and Blind Squirrel Games, developed these games and Electronic Arts published them. They remastered all three titles with visual upgrades, technical fixes, and gameplay tweaks. The game launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2021.

Warframe puts players in the Tenno race. They awaken after cryo-sleep in a war-torn solar system. A corrupt era has returned, and the Grineer Empire hunts the Tenno for destruction. Warframe armor lets the Tenno overthrow the Grineer. It gives players unique offensive and defensive powers for radical raids, allowing them to explore, upgrade, and master gear.

Deathloop sends players to the lawless island of Blackreef. Two assassins fight an eternal struggle. Explore stunning environments and meticulously designed levels. This immersive gameplay lets you approach every situation. Hunt targets across the island to end the cycle. Fail once? Die. Die again.

Explore the solar system and experience responsive first-person shooter combat in Destiny 2. Unlock powerful elemental abilities and collect unique gear to customize your Guardian's look and playstyle. Enjoy Destiny 2’s story, tough co-op missions, and many PvP modes. Download for free and write your legend in the stars.

Beyond Good & Evil mixes action-adventure with puzzle-solving and stealth. You control Jade from a third-person view. Jade runs, moves stealthily, jumps over pits, climbs ladders, pushes or bash doors, and presses against walls. As Jade, you investigate installations seeking the truth about a war with an alien threat.

The Outer Worlds is a new single-player sci-fi RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. As you explore space, you meet factions fighting for power. Your choice of who you become decides the fate of everyone in Halcyon. In the colony's corporate structure, you are the unplanned variable.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero happens two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to find the truth about a deadly cover-up. Build habitats, craft tools, and dive deeper into the Subnautica world to survive.

Roleplay in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live as an escaped worker washed up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by TTRPGs, explore the station, pick friends, escape your past, and change your future.

The world is ruined. Only a few humans remain, hunted to near extinction by creatures from another world. As a survivor, you enter portals to fantastic realms to get the firepower needed to fight back. Remnant: From the Ashes is a third-person survival-action game set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by mythical creatures. The game lets players and up to three friends have a unique, customizable experience with intense shooting, melee combat, gear crafting, and character progression.

Everspace 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter. It features exploration in space and on planets, lots of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a detailed open world full of secrets, puzzles, and dangers. After a two-year early access period, Everspace 2 launched its full 1.0 release on PC in April 2023, arriving on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 in August 2023.

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world mystery. A solar system is trapped in an endless time loop. The player joins the space program in a small village on Timber Hearth. The player pilots a space shuttle across the solar system. The player seeks the system's mysteries by exploring the cosmos. Players gather knowledge hidden on each planet, left by a past civilization.

Take control of Nara, the Circle's deadliest warrior, now a fugitive. Nara seeks to destroy the dark cult that made her. Unlock devastating weapons and mind-bending abilities in Chorus. Chorus evolves the space-combat shooter. Explore ancient temples with Forsaken, Nara's sentient starfighter. Engage in zero-g combat and venture beyond reality.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is an action-adventure game like its first game. The player controls Amicia. She fights French Inquisition soldiers and hordes of rats spreading the black plague. Gameplay mirrors the first game, but the combat system expands. The game includes a progression system, awarding skills and abilities. Stealth players unlock skills for better sneaking; lethal players unlock extra options.