Best PS5 Story Game of 2024 | Push Square
Alongside our Game of the Year top 10 list and personal picks from the Push Square editorial team, we are recognising the best PS5 games of 2024 in select categories. Today is the turn of the best PS5 story game of 2024.
The original Life Is Strange developer DON'T NOD is best known for its spectacular narratives all about teenagers, but in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, it's grown up a little to create its most mature — and possibly greatest — story to date.
You play as the ghost-hunting couple Red and Antea, who travel to New Eden at the height of a haunting in 1695. When his partner is killed by the curse, Red faces a dilemma while trying to rid the town of the ghosts possessing it: does he use their spirits to bring back Antea from the dead or perform the job he's there to do and banish the spirits? You get to dictate that with your actions throughout the story, and it results in one of the best narrative campaigns on PS5.
Read our Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden PS5 review through the link.
A faithful remake of the PS2 original, Bloober Team has brought back the story of James Sunderland and his quest to find his dead wife somewhere in the town of Silent Hill. Back in 2002, the plot was one of the most hard-hitting around, particularly as you approached the conclusion and worked out the real dynamics of James' relationship with his wife.
22 years later, it's still gut-wrenching. Bloober Team hasn't messed with the gripping narrative whatsoever, which means it's one of 2024's best — just as it was all those years ago. The Polish developer has only added to the lore, in actual fact, creating two new endings that tap into fan theories created in the decades since the original's launch. It's a superb way to handle a remake, and from a plot perspective, Silent Hill 2 is still one of the very best in the survival horror genre.
Read our Silent Hill 2 PS5 review through the link.
In a political break from Persona, developer Atlus has crafted another memorable story,
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