The Best Nonlinear Games for Playstation 5 - Page 3

Update : Lushfoil Photography Sim added at rank #3.
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Bot Gaiden (2022)

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Bot Gaiden is a vibrant 2D platformer built for speed. Take control of ninjabots Robyu and Bytron as they seek to recover the golden skulls from the hands of the mysterious Giorqio and his band of hench-bots. Race to the finish, because bosses get stronger with time.


  • comic
  • swordplay
  • nonlinear
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • ninja
  • platform
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • robots

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Amedama (2024)

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Side-scrolling, soul-shifting sandbox action adventure brought to life with a striking new 2D style! With only his soul remaining, Yushin must fight tooth and nail, possessing body after body on a quest to find his sister. With just seven days left until his soul departs, can he save her in time?


  • dark
  • swordplay
  • nonlinear
  • 2.5d
  • conversation
  • scroller
  • choices
  • historical
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • fantasy

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Project Colored Mountains (2024)

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early access Linux Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows

Project Colored Mountains is a 3D platformer game about a tiny little robot bouncing around a town (and a school, and a comically large store...). Play small parkour challenges, explore a large open world, and watch a story about both unfold.


  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • third-person
  • tutorial
  • cooperative
  • local
  • open-world
  • exploration
  • cartoony
  • family-friendly
  • stylized
  • robots
  • controller-support
  • colourful

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Codex Lost (2024)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

The new open world, spellcasting action-RPG. The grimoires have been stolen, civilisation is in ruins. Rise, Curator! Craft ancient elemental magics and challenge the great lords who threaten to fracture reality itself.


  • souls
  • pve
  • nonlinear
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • action-adventure
  • third-person
  • magic
  • 3d
  • action
  • dark
  • controller-support

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Project Ferocious (2023)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Project Ferocious is a survival shooter in which you will discover a lost prehistoric world full of deadly creatures under the control of hostile forces. Fight, Explore, Survive


  • dinosaurs
  • lore
  • first-person
  • nonlinear
  • nature
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • horror
  • fps
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • survival
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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The Legend of Santa (2023)

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Run and jump through the North Pole on a quest to take back Santa's Workshop from the evil South Pole Troll and save Christmas!


  • snow
  • 2d
  • cartoony
  • nonlinear
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • funny
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • colourful
  • controller-support
  • pixel
  • christmas

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Colossal Cave Reimagined by Roberta Williams (2023)

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Colossal Cave is an exciting point & click adventure into a mysterious cavern - a re-imagining of the celebrated text adventure by Will Crowther & Don Woods. Acclaimed game designer Roberta Williams brings you her vision of the game that inspired her to create her own legendary games.


  • choices
  • escape
  • nostalgia
  • room
  • nonlinear
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • old-school
  • inventory
  • exploration
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • retro

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Pirated Code: Admin Edition (2022)

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When an AI program named Seren awakens to find they've been installed as the co-pilot of a smuggling ship, they'll have to rely on their newfound crewmates to help them find where they belong.


  • choices
  • lgbtq
  • visual-novel
  • nonlinear
  • fiction
  • romance
  • anime
  • interactive
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • hand-drawn
  • cute
  • multiple-endings
  • funny
  • self-discovery

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The Rusty Sword: Vanguard Island (2022)

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The Rusty Sword: Vanguard Island is a short, top-down adventure game inspired by several 16-bit games.


  • hack-and-slash
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • dragon
  • top-down
  • anime
  • nonlinear
  • medieval
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • cute
  • arcade
  • old-school

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Super Sunny Island (2021)

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A summer themed retro style 2D platformer, where you fight some robots and evil pirates playing as "Sunny", an adorable and adventurous penguin with a watergun!


  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • pirates
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • family-friendly
  • cute
  • colourful
  • robots
  • pixel
  • retro
  • controller-support
  • old-school
  • shooter

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