Top 15 NEW PS5 Games From Sony Event

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Sony didn’t just show off a console shape — it buried fans in fifteen new games in under ninety minutes.

Sony’s June 11 digital showcase, billed as “The Future of Gaming,” finally revealed the physical design of the PlayStation 5 alongside a stacked lineup of first-party and third-party titles aimed at Holiday 2020 and beyond. Hours later, YouTube channel gameranx broke the whole broadcast down into a 4K countdown of the top 15 new PS5 games revealed on stage. The list ranges from franchise sequels leaning hard on the console’s custom SSD and DualSense controller to a handful of new IP nobody saw coming.

  • Sony’s showcase revealed the PS5 hardware design and confirmed Holiday 2020 as the launch window for several first-party titles, including Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
  • Guerrilla Games closed the event with Horizon Forbidden West, while Insomniac doubled up with both Miles Morales’ standalone game and the dimension-hopping reveal of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
  • Capcom set release windows of 2021 for Resident Evil Village and 2022 for its mysterious sci-fi project Pragmata, while Rockstar confirmed an updated GTA V and GTA Online port for 2021.

Insomniac and Guerrilla Own the First-Party Slate

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales anchors Sony’s Holiday 2020 push, putting Miles in the lead role across New York City with visuals built to lean on the PS5’s horsepower. Insomniac didn’t stop there — the studio also showed Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, sending the duo hopping between worlds in real time, a sequence Sony has pointed to as one of the clearest demonstrations of what the console’s SSD-driven streaming can actually do, a theme covered in detail in Sony’s own breakdown of the SSD’s impact on load times and world design.

Guerrilla Games saved the biggest swing for the end of the broadcast, unveiling Horizon Forbidden West. Aloy returns to explore new biomes and, for the first time in the series, underwater environments — a direct sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn rather than a new IP, and the moment Sony chose to close the show on.

Gran Turismo 7 promises racing across more than 400 cars and 100 tracks — the kind of scale Polyphony Digital is betting the PS5 can finally render without compromise.

Housemarque, Sumo Digital and Bluepoint Round Out the Exclusives

Beyond the marquee sequels, Sony gave stage time to smaller studios making their PS5 debut. Housemarque’s Returnal pitches a dark, roguelike shooter built around repeated deaths and shifting environments. Sumo Digital’s Sackboy: A Big Adventure pulls the LittleBigPlanet mascot into a full 3D platformer. Bluepoint Games, known for its remaster work, is rebuilding Demon’s Souls from the ground up, promising the same brutal difficulty with next-gen lighting and load times.

Capcom, Rockstar and the Third-Party Push

Capcom used the event to confirm Resident Evil Village for 2021, moving the survival-horror series into a snowbound Eastern European setting, and teased Pragmata, a sci-fi project not expected until 2022. Rockstar’s contribution was less flashy but arguably just as important commercially: an updated port of Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online, slated for 2021, aimed at keeping the best-selling entertainment product of the last decade relevant into the new console generation — a title still drawing new players through guides like this rundown of building capital in GTA Online. Bethesda’s Deathloop also showed up, casting players as an assassin working through a time loop to eliminate eight targets in 24 hours, alongside Bethesda’s haunted-Tokyo shooter Ghostwire: Tokyo.

New Studios Get Their Moment

The showcase wasn’t only about known franchises. BlueTwelve Studio’s Stray puts players in control of a cat navigating a neon-lit, robot-populated city. Ember Lab’s Kena: Bridge of Spirits blends action and puzzle-solving as a young spirit guide helping trapped souls move on. Square Enix’s Luminous Productions revealed Project Athia, an action-adventure following a woman thrust into a dangerous magical world. Oddworld Inhabitants brought back Abe for Oddworld Soulstorm, Heart Machine (developers of Hyper Light Drifter) showed the surreal Solar Ash, and KO_OP’s Goodbye Volcano High offered a coming-of-age story set among dinosaur high schoolers — proof Sony wasn’t just leaning on sequels to fill out the countdown.

Fifteen games, one console reveal, and release windows stretching from this holiday season all the way to 2022 — that’s the pace Sony set on June 11, and it’s why gameranx needed a full countdown just to get through it.

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