Top PS5 games with the best graphics in 2024. Part 2

The differences between generations of game consoles are becoming less and less noticeable. However, every time we buy a new gaming console like the PS5, we expect a significant improvement in graphics. After all, it’s a whole seven years between generations, which is pretty decent for today’s world and its speed of technology development. The PS5 Pro already offers impressive progress, but we’ll only see the next major step in graphics with the PlayStation 6.

The PS5 Pro is already offering impressive progress, but we’ll only see the next major step in graphics with the PlayStation 6.

Till then, the difference in visual quality between the best PlayStation 4 games and the best PS5 games is staggering. Not only is the resolution higher, but new technologies like ray tracing have become available and are starting to appear in more and more games as we delve deeper into the console’s world.

The difference in visual quality between the best games on the PlayStation 4 and the best games on the PS5 is staggering.

Now that it’s been a few years since the console’s release, we have a wide selection of both updated games and exclusive titles created specifically for the PS5. Among them are a few games that have taken a special place and are worth considering for anyone looking to show off the power of their new console.

These games are not only impressive in their graphics – not necessarily photorealistic – but also a real pleasure to play. While graphics alone can’t make a game fun, it’s often the best-looking games on PlayStation 5 that make it the best. In this article, we continue our roundup of the PlayStation 5 games with the best graphics.

Demon’s Souls

The original Demon’s Souls — was a game that desperately needed a remake. Not only because it was shoehorned for the PS3, but also because the graphical power of that game couldn’t match the team’s artistic goals. In Demon’s Souls: Remake, however, we get a glimpse of what that game was actually supposed to look like.

Another game, however, is a game that needed a remake.

While the original was muddy and bland, the remake is crisp, attractive, and drenched in atmosphere. In the Demon’s Souls remake, more than any other game, the entire atmosphere, mood, and tone is vastly improved thanks to a graphical upgrade. It was a launch title for the PS5, and yet it looks better than most games released more than a year later.

And yet it looks better than most games released more than a year later.

Returnal

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Returnal — one of the earliest PS5-exclusive games, created by a team known for the best arcade games on past PlayStation consoles, including the PS4 launch title Resogun. Returnal — is sort of a bullet-hell arcade game hybrid, but presented as a third-person shooter with rogue-like elements.

An arcade game of sorts.

The various environments you wade through look great, but it’s the monsters and bosses that really steal all the attention. They are all unique in design and animation — looking both terrifying and somehow particularly beautiful at the same time. Tons of particle effects have been added to the game, which interact with the environment, and all the lighting draws you into the world of Atropos and doesn’t let go.

Particle effects have been added to the game.

Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut

Although technically a re-release, it’s impossible to make a list of games with better graphics without including Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut. The updated PS5 version didn’t completely remake the island of Tsushima, but it didn’t need to. The art direction already made the base game possibly the most beautiful world you could explore on PS4, but it looks even better on PS5.

The variety of landscapes combined with minimal or no user interface allows you to take in breathtaking vistas at every turn. Whether you’re wandering through a fall forest, trudging through snow, or sitting in a hot spring in the rain — every horizon feels like a masterful painting.

All of the landscapes in the game are designed to capture the beauty of the landscape.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

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Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart — it’s a Pixar game movie — there’s simply no better way to describe it. The game doesn’t try to look like the real world, but the art direction is so precise that you can’t help but marvel at the views. The fur on Ratchet, the reflections on Clank, the alien worlds — it’s all beautifully detailed and expressive, just like in movies like WALL-E or Puzzle. Combine all of this with the smoothest animations, the ability to lower the frame rate but add ray tracing, and you suddenly see a world you could only dream of as a child.

And you’ve got a world you could only dream of as a child.

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut is in the same boat as Ghost of Tsushima. Both games were already pushing the PS4 to its limits, and it’s only in the PS5 version that they somehow managed to achieve even more visual fidelity. Also similar is the emphasis on nature. Death Stranding: Director’s Cut features a smaller variety of landscapes, but every mossy rock, stream, cliff, or patch of dirt looks like it was somehow photographed and put into the game. The lighting here really shines, to say the least, and creates depth in shadows and reflections everywhere you would expect. In a game where you’re walking from place to place almost all the time, you’ll never mind traveling when every step is so beautiful.

The game’s lighting is so beautiful.

Gran Turismo 7

Racing games have always featured graphics more than most other genres. Gran Turismo 7 wowed the PS5 with some of the most realistic cars and tracks ever created. Every inch of every car is hand-crafted to exactly match their real-world counterparts, and the dynamic lighting on the tracks shimmers on the asphalt just like in the real world. In addition, the effects when you enter a dark tunnel and emerge into sunlight are exactly like the real thing.

And the effects when you enter a dark tunnel and emerge into sunlight are exactly like the real thing.

Gran Turismo 7 offers ray tracing, but not during gameplay, which is frustrating. However, you can use it to take screenshots of such high quality that you can fool your friends into thinking you own a multi-million-dollar race car (or that you have a knack for finding photos on the internet that they can’t).

God of War Ragnarök

God of War was the best-looking PS4 game ever, so it’s no surprise that its sequel, God of War: Ragnarok, also brings the new hardware to perfection. Every detail on Kratos’ old, haggard, wrinkled face is detailed to the point where his facial expressions allow you to understand his emotions far better than minimal dialog. The environments are also amazing in both scale and variety. From the snowy forests of Midgard to the jungles of Vanaheim — God of War: Ragnarok does not sacrifice quality one bit. Once you tweak the numerous graphical options, it’s arguably the best game to showcase what the PS5 is capable of.

And once you tweak the numerous graphical options, it’s probably the best game to showcase what the PS5 is capable of.