The best PlayStation games from 2023

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By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.

PlayStation’s had an interesting year. The company ricocheted between the highs of launching new technology like the PlayStation Portal and a new PS5 Slim (now with a detachable disk drive!) and the lows of layoffs, game cancellations, massive data leaks, and the end of CEO Jim Ryan’s 28-year tenure.

And though 2023 was the year of the cross-platform blockbusters like Diablo IV and Baldur’s Gate 3, PlayStation still had a number of exclusives not to be missed. 

When you start out with a game as good as the original Spider-Man, you don’t have to change much. And thankfully that’s exactly what the developers at Insomniac did for Spider-Man 2. The sequel has some new ideas — including web wings that let you glide across New York City — but mostly it’s just more of a good thing. More villains to fight, a much bigger city to explore, and — since you play as both Miles Morales and Peter Parker — more Spider-Men to control. It also cuts down on some of the open-world fluff of the original, letting you focus more on being the very best Spider-Man you can be. That means lots of exhilarating swinging through skyscrapers, and some very satisfying combat (where bad guys definitely don’t die). And, as with basically all Marvel properties, it ends with the promise of even more to come. — Andrew Webster

The only thing surprising about Forspoken being on this list is that the game actually came out this year instead of mid-2022 like it feels. Despite complaints about “cringe” dialogue and brand tweets made in poor taste, Forspoken is still one of the best PS5 console exclusives out this