Best Sci-Fi Games on PS4 | Push Square

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What are the best sci-fi games on PS4? If you're in the mood to explore some otherworldly science fiction, PS4 has plenty to offer across a wide spectrum of genres.

Sci-fi has been prevalent in video games since the very beginning, and it's as intriguing a setting as ever. Whether it's the far-flung future of Earth in Horizon Zero Dawn, the unexplainable oddities of Control, or classic space operas like Mass Effect, there's so much brilliant sci-fi to dig into.

As with all our lists, though, deciding the best sci-fi games on PS4 comes down to you lot. Our community's user ratings determine which games appear on this list, and in what order. You can directly impact this list by leaving your own user ratings on sci-fi PS4 games using the search bar below:

It should be noted that a game will need at least 50 ratings before it will appear in this list, so if a favourite isn't here, it may just need more people backing it.

All that said, let's get into the best sci-fi games on PS4, as determined by the Push Square readership.

PREY made a valiant attempt to revitalise the franchise, and while it wasn't a big sales success, it remains an engrossing sci-fi thriller. You wake up aboard a mysterious space station, where you're the test subject for the betterment of humanity. Obviously, things go very wrong, and the station is overrun by hostile aliens. Featuring unique enemies, a non-linear location full of details, and imaginative new weapons, it's an atmospheric, tense first-person adventure that'll get under your skin.

Overwatch has been superseded by Overwatch 2 now, but it was one of PS4's tightest and most kinetic first person shooters. Blizzard's team-based multiplayer FPS combined excellent gunplay with top tier character design to deliver an endlessly entertaining experience. Each hero was totally unique, and they all complemented each other with crazy abilities that were easy to learn but hard to master. Pretty much everything great about this game has carried over