The 28 Best Multiplayer PS4 Video Games to Play in 2022

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Battle it out with some friends—or total strangers—online.

Friends! Wouldn’t it be nice to have some. We'd imagine, nowadays, you would take a long, masked walk with such a person, talking about the things friends talk about. Maybe it’s a phone call. Or, more likely, you just like each other’s tweets and heart one another’s Instagram posts, nary a word spoken save for the occasional, “Cute!”

Here’s something else you can do with friends: play video games! How fun. You don’t even need to be together in person anymore. Instead of crowding around a hundred-pound cube just to shoot a pixely enemy, you can work some Wi-Fi sorcery to link up with a buddy, anywhere in the world. You might tag-team to cook burritos in Overcooked!, kart around in Crash Team Racing, or slay some mythical beasts in Elder Scrolls.

Maybe you don’t feel like being social all the time, but when you do, we have a list of the 28 best multiplayer games on PlaysStation out there at the ready.

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Yeah. We were surprised too. Hot Wheels, those silly little cars we played with as kids, stormed into our adult lives with one of 2021's best multiplayer racing games. Microtransactions are intentionally unnecessary in Hot Wheels Unleashed, an admirable feature nowadays. Plus, the level design rivals anything you'd see in a modern-day Mario Kart romp. Take that, Wario.—B.L.

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Do you miss the glory days of Left 4 Dead, where you'd kill about 150 zombies per five minutes of gameplay? (That's an exaggeration, but still.) You'll be happy to know that the makers of Left 4 Dead are back with another undead shoot-em-up: Back 4 Blood. Frankly—and in the best way—this feels