The Best Open-world Games for Playstation 5 - Page 5

Update : Forever Skies added at rank #44.
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Submerged: Hidden Depths (2020)

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stadia PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Explore a sunken world in Submerged: Hidden Depths as you navigate through a non-combat third-person 'relaxploration' adventure. Immerse yourself in this beautiful and haunting world while collecting relics and searching for the seeds of salvation. Enjoy the beautiful graphics, atmosphere and music that make for an awesome gameplay experience.


What we like:
  • Beautiful graphics and atmosphere
  • Interesting way of storytelling through drawings and actions
  • Awesome music
  • Improved gameplay from the previous game
  • Relaxing game with no combat
What could be improved:
  • Laid-back gameplay may be too chill for some
  • Minimal parkour and platforming
  • The boat can be frustrating and ruins immersion

  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • open-world
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • sailing
  • walking-simulator
  • platform
  • collectible
  • relaxploration
  • narrative
  • third-person
  • combat
  • post-apocalyptic
  • discovery

42

Sonic Origins Plus (2023)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Relive the classic adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD in this new remaster.


  • platform
  • open-world
  • classic
  • boss
  • boss-fight
  • retro
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • exploration

43

Starsand (2021)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In Starsand, you'll explore a vast and unforgiving desert, scavenging for resources, building a shelter, and hunting to survive. With dynamic weather and day/night changes, you'll have to plan and act wisely to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization and make it back home. Can you survive in this harsh environment and make it out alive?


What we like:
  • Good survival elements
  • Interesting premise
  • Nice desert atmosphere
  • Nice exploration aspects
  • Unique navigation system
What could be improved:
  • Limited content
  • Clunky gameplay
  • Unforgiving resource allocation
  • Bugs and glitches
  • Lack of save points

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • building
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • management
  • sandbox
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • first-person

44

Forever Skies (2025)

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A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.


  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • science
  • base-building
  • resource-management
  • post-apocalyptic
  • building
  • exploration
  • futuristic
  • atmospheric
  • cooperative
  • action-survival
  • sci-fi
  • single-player

45

Smalland: Survive the Wilds (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Dive into Smalland: Survive the Wilds, where your survival skills are put to the test in an expansive, mysterious world. Ride insects, build shelters with friends, and unravel ancient secrets. Arm yourself with unique gear and face the wild's colossal inhabitants. Can you thrive among the giants of nature?


What we like:
  • Customizable controls
  • Enjoyable resource gathering
  • Exceptional base building
  • Captivating atmosphere and visuals
What could be improved:
  • Motion sickness issues
  • Potential for inventory loss and movement glitches

  • survival
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • cooperative
  • base-building
  • building
  • sandbox
  • city-building
  • character

46

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 5

Included in the Ultimate Edition of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, this is a Playstation 5 remaster of Marvel's Spider-Man and all of it's DLC. The remastered version features improved skin, eyes, hair, and facial animation, as well as ray-traced reflections, ambient shadows, and improved lighting. More pedestrians and vehicles are also seen in the remaster. Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered also adds three new Spider-Man suits which were not in the original game, as well as new photo mode features and new trophies.


  • superhero
  • open-world
  • stealth
  • fight
  • combat
  • crime
  • boss-fight
  • combo
  • boss
  • villain
  • action

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Elex II (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

Elex II offers a vast open world with deep and engaging narrative, allowing you to complete quests at your own pace. Character progression is gradual, but rewarding. Despite janky combat, this ambitious RPG encourages exploration, making it an RPG worth playing.


What we like:
  • Deep and engaging narrative with permanent effects
  • Impressive open-world with varied environments
  • Gradual character progression
  • Plenty of quests to complete at your own pace
  • Encourages exploration and sense of adventure
What could be improved:
  • Dated graphics and facial animations
  • Basic controls and combat mechanics
  • Struggles in acquiring necessary skills and upgrades
  • Technical issues and occasional frame rate drops

  • rpg
  • open-world
  • post-apocalyptic
  • sci-fi
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • combat
  • medieval
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • fight

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Deadside (2020)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Deadside is a hardcore multiplayer shooter with survival elements. Post-Apocalypse, PvP, PvE, open world, realistic weapons, craft, base building


  • open-world
  • survival
  • crafting
  • shooter
  • post-apocalyptic
  • pvp
  • first-person
  • multiplayer
  • base-building
  • fps
  • tps
  • mmo
  • cooperative

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders (2024)

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Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action-adventure RPG with base-building elements, where you take on the role of a classic hero who stands up to the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. Fight, craft, steal, and of course help the local people grow and prosper.


  • base-building
  • medieval
  • archery
  • nonlinear
  • open-world
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • nature
  • building
  • management
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • survival

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Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One (2021)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.


  • detective
  • open-world
  • crime
  • mystery

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