Nominees for Destructoid’s Best PS4/ PS5 game of 2023

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Deck the halls, write to Santa, and update your respective consoles before the traditional Christmas network outages. ‘Tis the season, so we’re wrapping up another year of gaming at Destructoid with 2023’s best games, and that includes a heavy-hitting category of PlayStation nominees.

Destructoid’s process is pretty simple, our very own Eric Van Allen explains as much in his Indie Nominees rundown. Games can only be nominated in one category, and our ‘year’ begins in December 2022 — December 2023 games don’t make the cut.

Anyway, in the spirit of kicking another holiday hornet’s nest, here’s our nominees for best PS4 / PS5 game of the year.

Insomniac’s last Spider-Man game launched in 2018, thus kicking off this category’s theme of “What year is it again?” — I had to double-check that after suggesting we just got one of these within the last couple of years.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is the quintessential Sony recommendation for folks looking to buy the current-gen PlayStation. It’s polished to a degree that remains beyond impressive and captivating, even to those not into the whole superhero scene. Miles Morales steals the show as a series favorite, and all of the usual staples like webslinging, New York neighborhoods, and, of course, Venom, return in a show of Spider-Man’s best. It’s one that really sold me on Spidey’s direction going forward, and I certainly wasn’t the only one.

Though it just launched in June this year, Final Fantasy XVI was one of those games I was certain came out last year, but no, I’m just turning into dust. The hazy time-lapse is equal parts owed to the build-up and fanfare around another entry to the Final Fantasy series and how much of the year RPG lovers spent sequestered off with a screen.