The PS5 games with the best graphics

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Aloy standing in front of the Hollywood sign in Horizon Forbidden West.


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While the jumps have been getting smaller and smaller between generations, there’s always a nice graphical bump to look forward to when picking up the latest gaming consoles. The PlayStation 5 Pro will give us a nice boost for now but it won’t be until the PS6 that graphics take their next major step forward. Still, the visual improvements we got between the best PS4 games and best PS5 games are striking. Not only are resolutions higher but new techniques like ray tracing are now possible and starting to show up in more titles as we get deeper into the console’s life.

Now that it’s been out for a several years and we have a wide selection of both upgraded titles and ones made exclusively for the PS5, there are a few that have risen to the top that anyone looking to show off the power of their new console will want to grab. Not only are all the games on this list visually impressive — not just necessarily photorealistic, mind you — but they’re also a blast to play. Graphics don’t make a game fun, but it just works out that the best-looking games on PS5 are also some of the best-playing. Here are our picks for the PS5 games with the best graphics, which we will keep updated as all the upcoming PS5 games arrive.






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