Compliments of the season to you.

It’s been a difficult year for the games industry, but the software has been flowing as strongly as ever. At times, we’ve all struggled to keep up with the veritable array of titles available for the PS5, and we’re sure many of you feel much the same.

The thing that makes running Push Square such a pleasure is that you can never guess what’s around the corner. Who had the breakout success of Balatro on their bingo card, for example? We can make guesses about what 2025 will bring – and we will – but we won’t truly know until we get there.

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Independent leaders.

Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2024 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 indie game of 2024.

Bronze Trophy: Crypt Custodian

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Barnstormer.

Amid all the Game of the Year conversations, we wanted to highlight a title that really managed to stand out in 2024 — a release so different to basically everything else that launched over the last 12 months.

Thank Goodness You're Here! resonated with two of Push Square's editorial team in particular: assistant editors Robert Ramsey and Stephen Tailby. We got them together to talk about what makes Thank Goodness You're Here! so special.

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Top Dogma.

When you think of adventure in video games — the immersion that comes with exploring unknown lands and locations — there are plenty of open world games that fit the bill. But we'd argue that very few of those games nail that sense of journey and subsequent discovery quite like Dragon's Dogma 2.

This sequel was a long time coming, and truth be told, Capcom didn't mess with the existing Dragon's Dogma formula all that much. As such, the follow-up retains the unique strangeness that made the first game so memorable, but a much bigger map and more dynamic combat go a long way in making Dragon's Dogma 2 feel like an evolution.

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Narrative-based experience on the way.

What good is a railway sim without Thomas and Friends? Well, to be fair, we’d never actually considered the Mattel franchise coming to Train Sim World 5, but that’s exactly what developer Dovetail is plotting for the new year.

This slightly different add-on pack will be a narrative-based experience featuring Thomas, Diesel, and the Troublesome Trucks. So, while it’ll still unfold on-rails, you can look forward to a slightly different escapade should you decide to snap this up.

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Huge content drop to coincide with console launch.

Wuthering Waves may look and sound a lot like Genshin Impact, but it’s stronger than the long-running HoYoverse favourite in a number of areas. The character action combat, in our opinion, is vastly superior – and the release has a pretty cool system where you absorb animals from around the world and can integrate their abilities into your moves.

The title’s coming to the PS5 on 2nd January, alongside its absolutely enormous v2.0 update. And it feels like the perfect time to start playing: you’ll be able to jump directly to the new storyline and Italian-inspired location Rinascita if you like, and there’ll be tons of onboarding to help get you and your characters up to speed.

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Silent night.

Our individual Game of the Year articles allow our lovely team of writers and editors to share their own personal PS5 picks for 2024. Today, it's the turn of assistant editor Liam Croft.

5. Astro Bot

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Your ultimate guide to Sony's loyalty scheme.

PS Stars, or PlayStation Stars, is a free loyalty program for PS5 and PS4 which enables you to earn PS Store credit, free games, and Digital Collectibles. If you're a PS Plus subscriber, then you'll earn additional Points based on each PS Store purchase you make.

In this PS Stars guide, we're going to explain all Campaigns and solutions and outline all Rewards and how to get them. Please note that, while our best efforts have been made to ensure this page is always accurate, PS Stars is an evolving program so some details may be subject to change. Additionally, there may be regional differences depending on where you live.

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Animated shorts keep coming.

Years and years ago, HoYoverse announced a Genshin Impact anime, which fans are still waiting to watch. There’s been no real update on the project, and many have assumed it’s now on hiatus.

However, that’s not stopped the Chinese studio from starting to make more and more anime shorts to promote upcoming updates and characters. Mavuika is the latest to get the treatment, scoring an epic 10-minute animation that’s already racked up over a million views.

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The ultimate Silent Hill 2 resource.

In this Silent Hill 2 guide, we'll reveal a complete Walkthrough that provides an in-depth, step-by-step guide through the whole game, pointing out Collectibles along the way. At times, we will branch out to specific Puzzle Solutions pages to provide a more thorough overview of select sections that may prove more difficult. We also share how to get Weapons and Items that are slightly more out of the way.

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One more quest marker.

Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2024 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 open world game of 2024.

Bronze Trophy: Rise of the Ronin

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For Super Earth!

Helldivers 2 is one of the biggest surprises of 2024. Not one of us here at Push Square could have quite predicted how the game would take off, and even weeks before its launch, the buzz around it all seemed minimal. But once that now iconic, meme-able gameplay started to spread across the web, it was clear that Arrowhead Studios was onto something special.

With teams of four dropping into bug, robot, and now alien infested planets, the premise and basic gameplay loop of Helldivers 2 isn’t really anything special. You transport boxes, capture areas, and input simple commands into terminals, before calling a shuttle and getting the hell out of dodge. But Arrowhead applies that magic sauce to the whole gameplay experience.

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Here are all the patch notes.

An absolutely enormous update for embattled monster collecting game Palworld is available now.

The title has been the subject of intense scrutiny since Nintendo and The Pokémon Company aimed its legal team at the indie outing, claiming it infringes on the companies’ patents. It’s since made some slight adjustments to the title, presumably in an effort to sidestep any alleged wrongdoing.

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A collaboration is coming.

Korean developer Shift Up promised it’d bring buxom Stellar Blade heroine Eve to its smartphone gacha NIKKE: Goddess of Victory eventually – and now it’s confirmed the collaboration.

A short trailer shows the sword-wielder crash-landing into a demolished urban landscape, before looking down on some Raptures, the robotic antagonists from the mobile game.

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Under the Papa tree.

With the festive holiday just a couple of days away, the UK's physical top 10 is filled with your typical bestsellers, but Astro Bot has just about broken into the scrum.

In 10th place, it's the highest it's been for a few weeks, likely due to customers buying PS5 consoles for Christmas and grabbing the family-friendly platformer to go with it.

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Could it include a catalogue of classics?

Between titles like Metaphor ReFantazio and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, to name just two, SEGA has had one helluva year. But the company is not done yet: it’s announced a new Virtua Fighter, is bringing back fan favourites likes Crazy Taxi, and even seems to have Sonic the Hedgehog sprinting in a straight line these days.

Speaking with the BBC ahead of the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie’s release, president Shuji Utsumi revealed his company is pondering some kind of subscription service for its games.

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Resident Evil 2, Just Cause included.

With the Christmas break essentially here, the Last Chance to Play section of PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium has been updated to let you know what PS5, PS4 games you might want to prioritise between servings of brussel sprouts, as they're about to leave the service.

All departing on Tuesday, 14th January 2025, the following games will no longer be playable via PS Plus no matter if you have redeemed/downloaded them or not:

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Big brain thinking.

It’s been over a year since we last got a look at GTA 6, and fans are driving themselves utterly insane convincing themselves a new trailer is due to drop on 27th December.

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All 2025's upcoming PlayStation 5 launch dates.

What new PS5 games release dates in 2025 are coming up? If you're after a full list of 2025 PlayStation 5 release dates, you've come to the right place. PS5 is very much in its stride now in its fifth year, and there's lots to look forward to in the near future. We'll be keeping you updated with a full list of every upcoming PS5 game on this page.

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