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Top 25 Best PS4 Games of All Time [2019 update] | whatoplay

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Five years into the PS4’s life, whatoplay ran the numbers and crowned a champion.

Whatoplay’s ‘Top 25 Best PS4 Games of All Time [2019 update]’ isn’t a personal top-25 scribbled by one editor — it’s a data-driven countdown built off the outlet’s own PlayScore system, which blends verified critic reviews with player ratings into a single aggregate number. The result is a ranking of the console’s best-reviewed titles from its 2013 launch straight through to mid-2019, right before the PS5 conversation started dominating headlines.

• Whatoplay’s PlayScore metric combines professional critic reviews with player review scores to rank every major PS4 release by overall reception, not personal preference.
• The upper tier of the countdown is anchored by Red Dead Redemption 2, Persona 5, The Last of Us Remastered, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
• The list spans open-world action-adventures, narrative-driven dramas, and turn-based JRPGs, with several entries built to take advantage of the PS4 Pro’s extra horsepower.

PlayScore Calculates the Official Countdown

Instead of ranking games off a single outlet’s review score or a host’s personal taste, whatoplay’s PlayScore averages verified critic write-ups against player ratings to produce one composite figure per game. That’s the number that decides placement on the list — a title needs both critical respect and staying power with the actual people who bought it to climb toward the top 25.

These are the top-rated PlayStation 4 releases based on the PlayScore, an average of critic reviews and gamer ratings.

That approach is why the countdown reads less like a hype list and more like a consensus snapshot of the generation — the kind of ranking that rewards games that held up over repeat playthroughs and multiple review cycles, not just a splashy launch week.

The Five Games at the Top

Red Dead Redemption 2 sits at the very top of the countdown, Rockstar’s Wild West epic having piled up critical acclaim on the strength of its world design and story since its late-2018 release. Right alongside it: Persona 5, Atlus’s stylish turn-based JRPG that turned a Tokyo high school drama into a genre showcase; The Last of Us Remastered, Naughty Dog’s PS4 rebuild of its PS3 classic; Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, the swan song for Nathan Drake; and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red’s open-world fantasy that’s still routinely cited as one of the best RPGs ever made.

What ties those five together isn’t genre — it’s consistency. Each one posted strong numbers with critics at launch and kept earning them from players well after release, which is exactly the kind of durability PlayScore is built to measure.

A Generation Defined by Range

The rest of the countdown fills out with the same variety: vast open-world action-adventures, tightly scripted narrative dramas, and JRPGs that reward dozens of hours of grinding. Several of the games on the list were built or later updated to take advantage of the PS4 Pro’s boosted resolution and frame-rate options, giving the ranking a mix of titles optimized for the base console and ones enhanced for Sony’s mid-generation hardware refresh.

That spread is really the point of the exercise — whatoplay isn’t just measuring which game had the biggest marketing push in 2019, it’s measuring which games, across every genre Sony’s first-party and third-party partners threw at the PS4, actually held up under sustained scrutiny from both reviewers and the people who played them.

Whatoplay tags this one a “2019 update” for a reason — with the PS4’s library still growing and Sony deep into planning for the PS5 transition, a list like this was always built to be revisited as new contenders posted their own PlayScore numbers.