I also highly recommend Season: A Letter To The Future. It's on both PS5 and Steam, and has gorgeous cell shaded graphics, as well as cool DualSense implementation, a wholesome story, and bike focused exploration game play. You basically travel around in a world where industrialization has fallen, journaling what you see, hear and do, taking pictures, recording sounds and laying it all out in a scrap book of sorts. It's probably been my favourite new release since Stray, and it's from a studio in my city as well. It's a great peace of art and I'd love for more people to experience it.
Playstation's Plus Extra service has so many great games on it, it's crazy. SUPER underrated service. Great list to highlight all those great games on there!
Thanks for this list - plenty to check out there. I'm always looking for games to play with my girls (10 and 12). They loved Stray and Abzu. Other favourites were Child of Light, Ghost of a Tale, Spiritfarer and Stardew Valley. And my girlfriend's favourite is Eastshade.
when i hear portia, i iMMEDIATELY think kat! greatest advocate for that game. all of these games look incredible - they're all so BEAUTIFUL as well as narratively interesting, just makes me want a playstation more and more! i actually hadn't heard of ABZÛ - sounds incredible!
I played "What remains of Edith finch" and while I am completionist, this is a game I do not want to play again. Mostly cause the whole snake scene (which I didn't even knew prior to playing) was very traumatizing as someone with ophidiophobia. Bugsnax got me nauseaus and I got stuck, maybe just not for me. I have played Celeste before (on a friend's console) and I think it is a very cute game, though I will play it on the easiest difficulty. I really wanna try Tchia (I installed it), slime rancher and outer wilds. those look interesting
Ah I hadn’t thought about that! I’m surprised they didn’t have trigger warnings for that, usually Annapurna is pretty good with that stuff! Glad you found some games that you think you’d like though ❤️