Top 10 Best Single Player Story Games on PS4

[Music] hello welcome to access and our rundown of the top 10 single player story games on ps4 you can't beat it can you settling down in your favorite gaming chair headphones on snacks Within Reach goodbye outside world hello wonderfully immersive single-player story I love being swept away on that narrative tide the magic feeling you get when a game is so riveting you just can't put it down when every new area and every fresh story beat is a thrilling surprise here are 10 of our personal favorites we've limited ourselves to one game per series and the list is in no particular order there are so many amazing games to choose from we can't possibly list them all so please do let us know your own choices in the comments our first entry is Marvel's spider-man a game that unsurprisingly nailed the feeling of swinging and plunging across an open world New York as everyone's favorite superhero what we didn't realize before playing however was how engrossed we'd become in Peter Parker's story insomniac delivered a thrilling narrative full of cinematic set pieces but also one beating with warmth and humanity some of my favorite moments from the game don't involve webs and skyscrapers at all and are more about the person underneath the suit like touches of humor between Peter and MJ the intriguing relationship between Peter and his mentor dr. Octavius the bond he shares with Aunt May and the emergence of young Miles Morales you will laugh and you will probably cry playing Marvel's spider-man honestly I found it to be one of my favorite Spiderman stories ever the emotional investment ensuring that when you do get round to thumping bad guys and tying helicopters in knots and you will the payoff is all the more satisfying writing your memoirs don't forget the hyphen between spider man The Last Guardian is our next entry a game that continues the tradition laid down by its spiritual predecessors of making you emotionally invested often to the point of Tears in a relationship between two central characters we've had eco and Yoda wander and aggro and now it's boy and Treecko a pair that share an unspoken bond as they journey together through a beautiful ruined castle this is video games storytelling like you've never seen it the Last Guardian spins its tale in the rocks and the ancient architecture of this long-forgotten place and also in the body of Treecko you can see the animals every emotion in its eyes hear the fear in its quavering voice feel its uncertainty in every tentative movement of its limbs you'll feel the bond between this pair without a word being spoken this is a story you play rather than one you're told and it really is a gaming experience like no other [Music] our next game is the Last of Us remastered Naughty Dog's emotionally taut exhaustingly tense character drama using their experience of performance capture and storytelling gained on the Uncharted series Naughty Dog here brought a new level of expertise and commitment to gaming narrative devising a world of danger and desolation in order to frame the central relationship between broken father Joel and his vulnerable young companion Ellie lean gameplay that lurches between tight chested stealth and sudden bursts of brutal action complements the game's character and story work perfectly as does the beautifully repulsive design of the infected bodies flayed by invasive fungus humanity returning to the earth and trying to take you with it it's no exaggeration to say the last of us set new standards in storytelling and change to the kind of quality that players expected and developers realized they could aspire to and look fine let's just roll straight into what Naughty Dog did next which was uncharted 4 a thief's end as a sit down and soak it up single-player experience it's hard to think of one that tops uncharted 4 it is designed to immerse - Wow - charm and entertain it has all the feel-good laughs and light touch like ability of its ps3 forebears and it cranks up the gorgeous scenery to new levels thanks to the power of ps4 but post Last of Us there's also a new depth to the characters and a looming end of era sense of danger to this final adventure uncharted 4 is the complete package obscene action outstanding visuals considered storytelling and somehow the same old Nathan Drake [Music] Sulli know what I love about partying with a bunch of crooks what's that nobody cares if you smoke indoors let's change pace for a moment with one of our favorite games on ps4 everybody's gone to the rapture really does feel like it was made just for us a mournful narrative-based mystery set in the English countryside of the catastrophe braced 1980s part of the joy is walking through the wonderfully observed village of your turn the pub the Town Hall the other pub the sense that everyone knows one another in a world that somehow smaller than ours is now and then there's the mystery itself a John Windham style story of disaster happening in tiny human spaces a mix of credible science fiction with number stations and Cold War paranoia traces of those who lived in your turn come through audio echoes of their final interactions which mix and swirl with the games transported pastoral soundtrack to create wonderful human moments of regret anger and acceptance there's nothing else like it on ps4 and we will love it forever the answers are in the light get past the daunting reputation and blood-borne is still one of the most intensely rewarding games on PlayStation 4 sticking close to the dark souls formula that brought them international recognition from software shift from classic fantasy dungeons to blood-borne Lovecraftian Gothic abyss creating another mysterious broken world steeped in blood thick atmosphere and packed with creatures of fiendishly unsettling design the game isn't anything as boring as simply hard instead it demands your attention making the most common encounters deadly if your guard is down and in a brilliantly captured spirit of Lovecraftian ISM making it genuinely difficult to progress because of the horror at what you might discover there are few games so rich in design structure and story make sure you give blood-borne ago the problem with horizon zero dawn is that it's so good at so many things that we genuinely struggled to figure out which of our top ten lists it should appear on spoiler it'll be more than one we couldn't leave it off here because unlike some games that nail the open-world experience or feature extraordinary moment-to-moment combat horizon zero dawn does all this and also offers a first-rate story our hero a LOI lived on a future earth dominated by machine creatures with human civilization limited to tribes of superstitious hunter-gatherers until that is a compelling original science fiction mystery comes along to explain the state of the world a Lloyd is terrific fun to be and be with capable and calm intelligent and rational and the game's machine hunting combat mechanics are sophisticated physics based and at times scarcely believable the result is a game that screams with quality on so many different levels all of which meshed together to form one of the most fulfilling solo campaigns on ps4 next we have Detroit become human we were never going to get through this list without mentioning at least one game from Quantic Dream the French studio that's developed a unique style of interactive cinematic narrative game design and Detroit is their latest and best a near-future story of Android emancipation told through three interlinking perspectives Connor a police investigator who hunts down other androids Marcus the leader of the Android uprising and Kara a housekeeper Android gaining consciousness as with other Quantic Dream titles Detroit is visually extraordinary and the multi-threaded narrative offers dozens of possibilities as well as plenty of danger as any and all of the three characters can die at several points the game's focus on story and presentation also make it the perfect showcase for its performers who all imbue their synthetic characters with a beautifully human range of deft well observed emotions when you think of getting lost in a story few video games in history can match the timeless classic that is Final Fantasy 7 so it comes as no surprise that Final Fantasy 7 remake her glorious ps4 reimagining of one of the greatest games ever made has its narrative hooks in you before clouds ATB gauge has even filled you could argue Final Fantasy 7 epic tale resonates even more today than it did in 1997 following a heroic band of eco warriors defending the planet from an evil corporation profiteering from bleeding its natural resources dry but the real reason we love Final Fantasy 7 remake so much is a simple one really the characters are fantastic brought to life in breathtaking detail by wonderful animation sharp writing and top-class voice acting these are characters and places that existed largely in our imagination twenty-three years ago our minds filling in the blanks left by text boxes and pre-rendered backdrops the same way you do with characters in a novel and now here they are two decades later perfectly fleshed out if you loved the original Final Fantasy 7 remake will knock your socks off and if this is your first FF experience I sort of envy the dazzling adventure on which you're about to be swept away this game truly is one to savor you gotta stand here and pretend you can't hear the planet crying out in pain can you really hear that get help here in PlayStation Land we've been absolutely spoiled this generation with big-name story-driven blockbusters that rock up and just absolutely deliver God of War is a prominent name on this list a prodigal son returning after a serious and much-needed makeover while the God of War games have always been brilliantly slick and playable action titles in this post Last of Us world that's just not enough Kratos needed depth a plausible story and a reason for us to side with him other than that he's super angry and great at chopping people up the new god of war delivers relocating the demigod to a new Norse setting and smartly making the story about Kratos coming to terms with the kind of one-dimensional character he used to be and urging his young son to avoid taking a similar path none of which means the action and chopping have gone anywhere when necessary Kratos can still get really nasty really fast and the combat system here is as intricate and rewarding as anything the series has offered but now it's part of a richer world and a deeper story yes possibly yes so there you have it our pick for the top 10 single player story games on ps4 do you agree or have any others you'd like to add let us know in the comments give us a like if you enjoyed the video and click that notification bell to stay up to date with everything from the world of PlayStation 4 the players

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Length: 13min 28sec (808 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 10 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/JackalsIII]

I've played six of these! Great to see Spider-Man make one of these lists! I need to play Horizon Zero Dawn, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, The Last Guardian, and Final Fantasy VII Remake.