These are the absolute best games you can play on the PS5 - Android

While there are thousands of games that can be played on PS5 through PS5 backward compatibility, a lot less are specifically designed for Sony's newest powerhouse. We've rounded up the very best games you can play on PS5 today and split them up by genre so that you can easily browse what interests you most. From RPGs to multiplayer games and free-to-play, we've got you covered.

For the purposes of this list, we've tried to stick with newly released games with PS5 versions or games that have been updated to take advantage of its extra power. Rest assured, it's not an exhaustive list of everything available on the system right now. For that, you'll want to check out the best PS4 games. As more games are released in the coming months, we'll branch out and add more categories.

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• RPGs
• Action/adventure
• Shooter
• Multiplayer
• Family-friendly
• Free-to-play

Best PS5 RPGs

Role-playing games have stood the test of time and are continually some of the most popular on the market. There aren't a ton of RPGs designed for PS5 at the moment, but the few that are are well worth your time. And if that isn't enough for you, the PS4 has a huge back catalog of RPGs to peruse.

Demon's Souls

Originally developed by FromSoftware, Demon's Souls was the 2009 precursor to Dark Souls, which would go on to jumpstart an entire genre of Souls-likes. Set in the Kingdom of Boletaria, players embark on a journey to defeat King Allant, who has awakened an ancient evil and its demon army. As you can expect, the combat in Demon's Souls is extremely challenging, and there's no difficulty settings to turn it down. You git gud or you die trying. Over and over and over.

Bluepoint completely remade Demon's Souls as a PS5 launch title, and the attention to detail is immediately apparent. While staying true to the original vision, its graphics are overhauled to meet today's standards. With some quality-of-life fixes and small changes here and there, Bluepoint ensured it left any old jank in the past. What remains is an excellent remake, possibly one of the greatest ever done. It's more action-RPG than a straight up RPG, but it still fits the bill.

Demon's Souls

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The Demon's Souls remake wowed everyone and instantly became an example of a game remake done right. Brush up on your combat skills because the experience is going to be unforgiving.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Starting out as an action/adventure stealth series, Assassin's Creed has morphed into a full-blown RPG with recent entries like Origins and Odyssey. Its latest mainline game, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, doubles down even further and lets players live out their Viking fantasies in England during the Dark Ages. With constant strife ravaging Norway, our hero sets sail for the shores of England, but its current king and citizens are none too kind to these foreigners.

Players have the choice between a male or female Eivor, both of which can be customized with different tattoos and hairstyles. Like its predecessors, Valhalla allows players to equip a bevy of weapons, including the option to dual-wield two shields. There is also a large, branching skill tree and over a dozen abilities to unlock. No two Eivor's will be the same, so personalize them to your playstyle and start raiding.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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Anyone can be an Assassin, even a young Viking raider looking for glory and honor. Take up your sword and shield and get ready for an exciting adventure.

The Nioh Collection

The Nioh Collection contains remastered editions of both the first and second game in the action-RPG series. Nioh follows an Irish samurai in Japan during the 1600s (though a fictionalized fantasy version of it), with gameplay similar to that of Dark Souls. Nioh 2 is a prequel that takes place during the late 1500s starring a half-yokai, a Japanese demon, working to take down the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Both games support 4K resolution at an incredible 120FPS, some of the very few titles that support such high frame rates. Each also comes with all major DLC, a total of six expansions. Like other games being updated for PS5, they also support DualSense features like haptic feedback and adaptive triggers.

The Nioh Collection

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Like Dark Souls or Sekiro? You'll want to check out the Nioh series. With its collection on PS5 you can get both games and all DLC in one place and play at 4K resolution.

Best PS5 Action/Adventure Games

Action/adventure can mean a lot of things to different people, especially when the genre frequently borrows from others. It's easy to define Assassin's Creed Valhalla as an action-RPG, for instance. Whatever the case, action/adventure titles make up a bulk of the AAA market today outside of shooters, and there are plenty of great ones on PS5.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Insomniac's Spider-Man released a few years ago, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a better superhero game. It sits right up top alongside the Batman Arkham series as many people's favorite. Since Insomniac knocked it out of the park, it was only inevitable that it'd make a follow-up. Spider-Man: Miles Morales isn't a full sequel, but it is a standalone adventure set in the same universe after the events of the first game.

With Peter Parker on vacation, Miles Morales takes up the mantle of New York's friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. When Harlem comes under attack by an energy corporation hellbent on ruining the city for its own gain, Miles suits up to take them down with the help of a few friends. The city is fully explorable and features brand new suits, skills, and activities to complete.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales

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Thwip and swing your way across the city, doing your duties as everyone's favorite superhero. It'll take everything Miles has to stop New York's threats and save the city. No pressure.

Control: Ultimate Edition

The weird horror game from Remedy, which ties into the Alan Wake franchise, has its own quirks. Control is set in the Oldest House, a brutalist building that houses a secret government agency, the Federal Bureau of Control (hence the name). It's here that the paranormal becomes reality as you fight your way through otherworldly enemies in the hopes of finding your brother.

Control on PS5 features two graphics modes, one that boosts performance to 60FPS and one that turns on ray tracing effects at 30FPS. No matter which you choose you're looking at a 1440p resolution that outputs at 4K. What's cooler here is that you can change these modes whenever you want in the display settings without having to quit out of the game and load from the main menu like with most other titles. As a cherry on top the loading in Control on PS5 takes less than 10 seconds usually, far faster than what it was on PS4.

Control: Ultimate Edition

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Remedy's weird horror title became an instant classic in 2019. Experience it for yourself on PS5 with drastically reduced load times.

Immortals Fenyx Rising

It's probably getting old to hear Immortals Fenyx Rising called a Breath of the Wild clone, but the comparisons are apt. It plays like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild meets Assassin's Creed Odyssey, taking the gameplay and art style from the former game and utilizing more of the Greek mythology featured in the latter. Mix in a ton of humor and it seemed destined for success.

After Typhon escapes from Tartarus and vows to enact revenge on the gods, a young Greek hero washes up on the Golden Isle to find it in disarray. In order to defeat Typhon and his minions, you'll need to find the gods and help them restore their full powers. Immortals Fenyx Rising features several locations based on the Greek gods and has a slew of mythology enemies to take on. Not only can you flex your combat skills, but there are plenty of puzzles to solve as well.

Immortals Fenyx Rising

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Take on mythological creatures and save the gods in this epic Greek tale. Inspired in parts by The Legend of Zelda and Assassin's Creed Odyssey, it's a whole lot of fun.

No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky was bad when it launched... and then it wasn't. With nearly unending support and a drive to make the game live up to its full potential, Hello Games worked night and day to deliver major content updates and quality-of-life fixes that drastically improved the game. What remains is an excellent game that was recently enhanced for PS5 with more populated, denser worlds, improved resolution and framerates, and adaptive trigger support.

Boasting a procedurally-generated universe with over 18 quintillion planets (not a typo), No Man's Sky allows players to explore the vast wonders of the universe. From hostile planets with boiling temperatures and acid rain to more temperate, tropical climates, there's no shortage of things to discover. Collect resources to build bases and acquire better ships as you fly across the skies.

No Man's Sky

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No Man's Sky may not have released in the best state, but Hello Games worked hard to make sure it's now an incredibly fun experience. Play it on PS5 with enhanced visuals and mechanics.

Watch Dogs: Legion

The Watch Dogs series went from Chicago to San Francisco before ending up in London for Watch Dogs: Legion, which sees the developers tackle a post-Brexit dystopia ruled by a militaristic surveillance state (so, you know, not far off from real life). To mix up the formula, Ubisoft made it so that anyone can be a playable character, from bee keepers to elderly grandmas. There is no such thing as an NPC here. Each type of character has unique traits and skills that they bring to the table, helping DedSec root out corruption across the city.

Like previous entries in the series, it's all open-world and features a host of activities to do and gear to unlock. To accommodate more players, it offers plenty of avenues to complete missions based on your playstyle. Whether you're a brawler, want to go in stealthier, or run in spraying paint on everything, you can do it.

Watch Dogs: Legion

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Travel across the pond and help DedSec take down the surveillance state that has arisen in post-Brexit London. Let's be honest, it's practically real life at this point.

Best PS5 Shooters

Whether in first-person or third-person, there's something special about a good shooter. You can slay demons from hell, obliterate an army of aliens, mow down terrorists — there's no shortage of what you can do and what monsters you can kill. No matter the case, you'll end up being the hero in any of these fantastic shooters on PS5.

Borderlands 3

Borderlands 3 is the latest and greatest from Gearbox Software, taking the role-playing shooter across the galaxy to new planets and locales. Somehow topping itself from what it pulled off in Borderlands 2, Gearbox created over a billion procedurally-generated guns with unique parts and features depending on their brand. Melt faces with exploding lasers, freeze your enemies to death, or just use a gun that plays metal music or screams when you use it because why not?

Supporting up to four-player co-op and coming with dozens of hours of content — not even accounting for its amazing DLC — it almost feels like there's never-ending amounts of fun to be had. When you combine this with the brand's signature sense of humor and art style, it becomes a fantastic game to play all around.

Borderlands 3: Super Deluxe Edition

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Stop the Calypso twins and Children of the Vault from taking over the galaxy and wreaking havoc across the planets. Pick up your guns and get ready for the fight of your life.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Say what you want about the Call of Duty series, but Treyarch knows how to make a good shooter. The gunplay is second to none, and Black Ops Cold War keeps it a bit more grounded than other recent entries in the series by setting it during the 1980s. In addition to a single-player campaign, it also new and returning multiplayer modes, along with the popular Zombies mode.

Recruited by a top agent from the CIA, your character goes on a mission to stop the Russian operative Perseus, a person based on a real life spy whose existence is argued to this day. In any case, he's real in Black Ops Cold War, and President Ronald Reagan approves the mission that sends you around the world to neutralize this threat. Your loyalties will be put to the test in this campaign.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

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Set between Black Ops and Black Ops 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War tasks players with fighting for their country in order to take down the Russian threat that looms with the Cold War. Good luck, soldier.

Rainbow Six Siege

Rainbow Six Siege is a multiplayer game with dozens of playable maps and modes, along with seasonal events, that emphasis teamwork and environmental destruction. Like Black Ops Cold War, the gunplay here is exceptional. Regardless of the state of the game when it launched, it's incredibly fun now and boasts tens of millions of players, keeping the fanbase active and engaged.

Should you want some single-player gameplay, Rainbow Six Siege offers 10 solo missions so you can familiarize yourself with the mechanics before jumping into multiplayer and getting your ass handed to you. This is an example of a games-as-a-service done right, and should be on anyone's list looking for a shooter to play.

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