The Best PlayStation Games of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 3, 2023

Which PS5 and PS4 games impressed professional reviewers the most during the past year? We rank the best-reviewed PlayStation titles released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 by Metascore. Games must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible for inclusion. If a game appears on both PlayStation platforms, only the version receiving the higher quantity of critic reviews (typically the PS5 version) is eligible for inclusion. (All scores listed here are from December 31, 2022.)

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(#40) 80 Road 96

(#39) 80 Assetto Corsa Competizione

(#38) 80 The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero

(#37) 80 Signalis

(#36) 81 SIFU
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(#35) 81 FAR: Changing Tides

(#34) 81 Marvel's Midnight Suns

(#33) 81 The Entropy Centre

(#32) 81 Grand Theft Auto V

(#31) 82 Endling - Extinction is Forever

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