Best Adventure Games on PS4 | Push Square

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What are the best adventure games on PS4? There is a vast number of games that take the player on a grand adventure, but pinning down which ones you'd describe as part of the adventure genre is a tougher task. We'd categorise adventure games as those which have an emphasis on story and characters, and feature a variety of mechanics. These may include combat, puzzle-solving, and exploration.

Again, it's a pretty wide playing field, though it used to be narrower. Adventure games used to simply mean narrative-heavy, linear experiences, many of them point-and-click. These are still referred to as adventure titles but gaming has grown exponentially over the years, and the genre has equally broadened to include all sorts of games. As a result, the likes of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, God of War, and Marvel's Spider-Man share a space with Grim Fandango Remastered and Lair of the Clockwork God. While quite different structurally, what these games have in common is a focus on narrative, a compelling world, and rich, engrossing gameplay.

To untangle the adventure genre, we turn to you. As always, this list is orchestrated by your user ratings, reflecting which titles you think are the best adventure games on PS4, and in what order. As ratings rise and fall, the order of this list will change to reflect that. If you want to have your say, you can use the search bar below to look for PS4 adventure games and rate them accordingly.

A game will need at least 50 ratings before it can be included in this list, so if your favourites aren't shown, it might just be that they need more user scores.

Without further ado, let's take a look at the best adventure games on PS4, as determined by our community.

A Yakuza spin-off of sorts, Judgment embraces the same general gameplay structure as SEGA's crime-filled series, but it adds a delicious detective spin to proceedings. Playing as rough and ready private detective Takayuki Yagami, you chase leads (sometimes literally), examine evidence,