Each level is just the right amount of challenging, and although you’ll often fall victim to the bullet hell mayhem on screen, it never feels like it’s the game’s fault.

This minimalist puzzle game offers a clean, simple aesthetic and plays with your perspective. Want more of the best games on each system? Dishonored 2 is like a really great sophomore album.

XCOM is the gold standard for turn-based tactical games, and for good reason. RELATED: PlayStation Now: 5 Best PS4 Games On The Service (& 5 Worst). Note: Journey is only available via streaming. For those who missed this one—or any of its 482,712 ports over the years—you play as Leon Kennedy, sent off to an uncharted village to rescue the president’s daughter. Running around with your gun blazing is a quick way to die. If you’ve never played Journey, you should probably play Journey, even just so you know what people are talking about when they talk about the game. It’s just pure fun. On your next go-around, if you can defeat your former self, you get your Geo back. As you move around each circular level, you’ll be dodging bullets and blowing up enemies. A Good Match For: Animal Crossing players who wished Animal Crossing was more like Mad Max.

Fortunately, a handful of absolutely fantastic titles saved the generation from being a complete wash. Level-5's Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is not only from one of the genre's most accomplished studios but also features animated scenes by Studio Ghibli. Journey, released in 2012 by ThatGameCompany, is the gold standard of this subgenre. Despite the mess that resulted, The Phantom Pain is among Kojima’s best work. Hollow Knight puts you in the shoes—or whatever insects wear on their insect feet—of a lone knight. Control an ever-changing ball and navigate it through a physics-powered world, avoiding obstacles and solving puzzles. Bloodborne is made by the same creators (From Software), and is just as difficult, though the formula is a bit different. But hey, at least you’ll have some big guns in your corner. Fallout 4, like its two series predecessors, is an open-world RPG-shooter hybrid set in a cheekily 50s-future-tinged post-apocalyptic America. Sony has since switched over to a straight-up subscription model, following in the footsteps of Microsoft’s popular Xbox Game Pass. Whether you’re not sure about a purchase or just feel like playing an RPG that looks like a Miyazaki movie, this will do the trick. This is also a game in which you can make your horse relieve itself—as an actual gameplay mechanic. Fallout: New Vegas diehards. We’ll update this list as availability shifts. You’re put in the shoes of 13-year-old Oliver. PlayStation Now's massive new change means that members in the USA can now download PS4 and PS2 games straight onto their current gen console's hard drive. Resogun shows what a studio focused on a single genre can do.

PS Now's PlayStation 3 selection is huge, with a catalog expanding well into the hundreds. Alien Rage is mediocre on PC but terrible on consoles. Yes, you can download PS2 and PS4 games to play, but you can also stream them.

By now, you probably know full well what Red Dead is all about.

Metal Gear Solid HD Collection contains Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater from the PlayStation 2, as well as Metal Gear: Peace Walker from the PSP, plus copies of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX. In true Rainbow Six fashion, Siege is all about careful planning and tactical advantage. Monica is from a different timeline. You’re put in the shoes of 13-year-old Oliver. Players who never quite got a grasp of Rockstar’s oft-clunky shooting. (Bonus: the much-ballyhooed Undead Nightmare add-on, which zombifies the Red Dead world, is also on PS Now.). (Same goes for the standalone prequel expansion, Left Behind, which tells Ellie’s prequel story and is accessible from the main menu.) Yes, battles are tough.

These are the best games to stream using the service.

Good luck using that to block an enemy claw larger than an F150.) A Good Match For: Fans of tight narratives, complex crafting systems, and satisfying third-person game mechanics. You play as Big Boss, who, after a nine-year coma, adopts the alias “Venom Snake.” After escaping the Cyrpus-based hospital, it’s your job to find those responsible for the destruction of the Militaires Sans Frontières, the military base feature in the prequel game Ground Zeroes. Marvel’s Spider-Man is the result, and it’s a treat for longtime fans. You, as Punished “Venom” Snake, scope out enemy bases, come up with a plan of attack, and otherwise engage in tight stealth-focused gameplay. Then there’s the gameplay itself: a mix of action, platforming, exploring, and costume-changing that never gets old. Copyright ©2020 Designtechnica Corporation. And, that brings an end to any positives.

Spider-Man is the Spider-Man game players have been asking for. A Good Match For: Fans of tactical shooters, strategic thinking, base management, and missing shots that are listed as “99-percent” accurate. (Earth to Level-5: If not a sequel, can we get a remake? Like Uncharted 2, only the PS3 version of The Last of Us is available on PS Now. The Destroy All Humans remake is almost here. The game supports PlayStation VR, too, in the event you’re crazy enough to experience this game in VR. Escape Dead Island is a broken and unenjoyable mess. The game wastes no time in getting started. Not A Good Match For: Players who need their audio sharp and graphics sharper. Like other games of the genre, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is best experienced blind, but we’ll give you a brief primer. The story, gameplay, setting - nothing feels particularly thought out. (Bonus: the much-ballyhooed Undead Nightmare add-on, which zombifies the Red Dead world, is also on PS Now.).

Not A Good Match For: Impatient players, since Hollow Knight is a slow burn for the first few hours. Maybe you attack an inspection point with guns blazing, or sneak in silently and take out enemies one by one. (Okay, sure, technically, you also have a firearm. Not A Good Match For: Anyone with fungal allergies.

Anna is not completely irredeemable. Simply put, the game feels great to play, with plenty of platforms to work your way around each area and an arsenal of guns that’ll excite even the most battle-hardened FPS players.

One of the main draws of PSNow is the fact that you get access to not just PS3 games but PS2 games, as well. The shooting has been refined since prior entries, in that bullets actually go where you want them to. All of it, the whole game, is awash in muted blue-scale, as if you’re viewing the game through aquarium glass. For such a legendary license, Inferno is shockingly incompetent in a myriad of areas. How has this list changed? But it also manages to smartly touch on a wide range of thought-provoking topics.

If you’re defending, it’s your job to patch windows and build your defenses to defeat the opposing team. It is painful to have to include Alone in the Dark on any "worst of" list, but 2008's attempt to ape Resident Evil 4 is a trainwreck.

Give it a try! Fallout 4, like its two series predecessors, is an open-world RPG-shooter hybrid set in a cheekily 50s-future-tinged post-apocalyptic America. Instead of working your way through a fantasy landscape filled with demonic creatures, though, you’re fighting off aliens invading Earth.

If you’re attacking, it’s all about figuring out the best way to breach the building and overcome the defenses your opponents have set up. Update 9/1/2020: After giving us a summer of supernatural hijinks, Control leaves PS Now, making room for Watch Dogs 2. Fallout: New Vegas diehards. Those who like lore. The plot's ambiguity is also a double-edged sword, as aspects of the game just come across as incomprehensible. All streaming-only titles on this list were tested on a standard PS4 with download speeds of 13.7 Mbps and upload speeds of 3.1 Mbps. Metal Gear Solid 5 was Hideo Kojima’s swan song for his time with Konami.

Not A Good Match For: End to end, it’s shorter than Avengers: Infinity War. in which you can make your horse relieve itself. Update 3/9/2020: We’ve removed Heavy Rain and added Control, which debuted on PlayStation Now on March 3, 2020. It’s also bonkers. Whether or not programs like Google Stadia succeed, our future includes some form of streaming games. Generally, games of this nature have stunning art direction. Granted, there still is a story, and it’s decent enough should you look for it. However, unlike most bounty hunter games, all you get is a crossbow. The actual gameplay—probably a mix of environmental puzzles and light exploration—might be thin, but it’s bold, confident, and usually serves a function. The first several games in the franchise were true-to-form survival horror games. Good thing the minute-to-minute gameplay is as solid as it is. These games are challenging yet accessible, fun yet vexing, pulpy yet serious. In Journey’s quietly integrated multiplayer, you can run into other players on the same journey as you.

Unlike most other zombie-themed video games, The Last of Us really drives home the human impact of a zombie apocalypse. The result is a melancholic, side-scrolling “Metroidvania” unlike any other.

After the armies of Hell invade Earth, there’s not much else to do besides engage in an incredibly epic campaign complete with advanced weaponry and let’s face it: a little hell raising.

Without spoiling anything, know that, after 60 hours, the narrative tapers off.

Soon enough, the difficulty skyrockets, and you realize, Hey, maybe it’s better looking in from the outside. A Good Match For: Anyone who has or hasn’t played it. ), © Screenshot: Rockstar San Diego (PlayStation Store), Red Dead Redemption doesn’t look as good or play as well as Red Dead Redemption 2, but it’s still a great game with some terrific moments and an all-time great ending. It focuses on a smaller story, one that’s stuffed to the brim with detail.

In short order, you witness a childhood doll come to life, get transported to a magical alternate world, and stumble upon a city where all the denizens are anthropomorphic cats. Not A Good Match For: Red Sox fans. In Diner Dash, you play the restaurant entrepreneur Flo, out to work her way up to the top of the food service industry. The 12 Best Games on PlayStation Now When PlayStation Now first launched, in 2015, it was more confusing than enticing. A Good Match For: Fans of environmental storytelling, first-person perspectives, tense stealth sections.

Even though the genre is a bit different, it still feels distinctly like an Oddworld game.

Razor's Edge is not particularly good, but it is a sight better than the original. Toki Tori is a puzzle game in the vein of Lemmings and Lode Runner that puts you in the shoes of an egg-shaped character who must use various tools and ... Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a first-person action puzzle game set in a cyberpunk reimagining of H.P. Resident Evil 4 is the best of both worlds, a bridge between old and new, connecting primal fear and hoo-rah hijinks. A Bejewelled-style puzzle game, help the mother Piyo Piyomama hatch her eggs before they overflow her nest. Compared to our other entries, there’s nothing special about Destroy All Humans.

Resident Evil 7, despite being the latest entry in the series, is one of the best Resident Evil games.

You can equip your crossbow with all sorts of small and adorable creatures – this creates your “live ammunition.”. Although the third entry isn’t as good as the first two games, it’s still filled with charm, and an impressive showing for developer Sumo Digital.

While previous entries visited Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, Fallout 4 drops players in the bomb-shattered remains of the Greater Boston area (or “The Commonwealth,” to use in-game parlance). In combat, you take down other insects with a mix of well-timed dodges and well-placed sword swings.