Sony comes out swinging with beautiful PlayStation 5 game trailers

A bunch of incredible-looking upcoming PlayStation 5 video games were revealed at Sony’s “The Future of Gaming” livestream event Thursday, strongly rivaling Xbox’s own next-gen game showcase from earlier in the year.

We got looks at new sequels, reboots, some entirely new projects, and new looks at already-announced games that have been hiding in the dark since last summer.

Here are all the exciting trailers for the new lineup of PS5 games, collected in one place for your convenience.

1. Spider-Man: Miles Morales

The highly anticipated sequel to one of the best games on PS4, Spider-Man, is coming this year. Starring Miles Morales as the main Spidey, a turn that was heavily hinted at in the first game. 

2. Gran Turismo 7

It wouldn’t be a new PlayStation without a new Gran Turismo game. This game looks like it has everything you’d want in a Gran Turismo game: fast cars, cool tracks, crazy-good graphics, very realistic car noises, and pretty environments. 

3. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Ratchet and Clank are back in a new interdimensional adventure. In typical Ratchet and Clank fashion, Rift Apart looks like it’s chock-full of goofy aliens and robots, wacky weapons, and bright beautiful environments to rip apart with glee. And apparently there’s a female version of Ratchet now. 

4. Project Athia

This trailer is a bit more mysterious than the others but still very enticing. We have terrifying looking beasts like giant glowing wolves and giant glowing dragons, and a very powerful protagonist who appears to have a pretty good grasp on magic. Is she Athia? Is that even the actual name of the game? Who knows.

5. Stray

A cyberpunk-looking game about a cat with some kind of technologically advanced backpack. This is another game where we don’t have a lot of information, but hey it looks really pretty and if we actually get to play as a cat, that’s a win.

6. Returnal

The crash, the attack, my death. This game appears to run on a loop as our space-faring protagonist relives the same sequence again and again, fighting against alien life and trying to find answers, hoping to break her cycle of death. Returnal looks like a bit of a mindfuck with elements of horror set against this sci-fi setting.

7. Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Little Big Planet makes its adorable little return on the PS5 with Sackboy: A Big Adventure, a cute and colorful platforming adventure full of endearing characters.

8. Destruction AllStars

If Rocket League and Fortnite had a baby, you would get Destruction AllStars, a high-octane multiplayer game where players take control of cars and try to smash each other to bits. It appears that once your car busts, you have to continue on foot as big death cars whiz by.

9. Kena: Bridge of Spirits

The team of brothers at the heart of Kena mentioned a background in animation and that really shows. Kena: Bridge of Spirits looks gorgeous. A classic kind of adventure

10. Goodbye Volcano High

This game has “coming of age drama” written all over it. In a school filled with all kinds of animals, one person (er, animal) feels like they’re on the edge of doing something great but grappling with all the emotions that make us hold ourselves back.

11. Oddworld: Soulstorm

Oddworld is back with a new, weird, kind of gross, kind of endearing adventure starring the weird blue aliens players have come to know and love over the years. This Oddworld game looks particularly intense but still keeps that odd spirit of the series going.

12. Ghostwire: Tokyo

It’s up to players to save Tokyo in this spooky-looking game from the mind of the guy behind Resident Evil 4 and The Evil Within, which was first announced in 2019. There are all kinds of weird apparitions and enemies popping up in the city and they need to be eradicated.

13. JETT: The Far Shore

In what appears to be a spiritual followup to the 2011 indie game Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, this trailer seems like a very conceptual and ethereal. A game about exploration, building a future, death, and dreams, this looks like it’s going to be a very moving game, especially with this music to back it all up.

14. Godfall

First teased in 2019, Godfall takes on a bit of a different appearance in this action-forward trailer backed by a heart-pumping song that feels like a perfect backdrop to the melee beatings going down in this very pretty brawler.

15. Solar Ash

From the creators of Hiperlight Drifter comes a grander-looking adventure with a very similar (but elevated) art style. We don’t get much in this trailer but if it’s anything like the team’s previous game, expect some fast-paced action.

16. Hitman 3

The Agent is back for more missions in Hitman 3 where it looks like we’ll be getting more of the same kind of stealth-based action from the series, which is just perfect because the series is fantastic and sticking to what you do best is just what a game like Hitman should do. 

17. Astro’s Playroom

It appears that PlayStation now has its own 3D Mario-esque platformer, but instead of a chubby Italian plumber, this game stars the little PSVR bots as it jumps around colorful worlds and collects little items.

18. Little Devil Inside

This gorgeous adventure of a game has a very heavy, kind of muted style to it and a juxtaposition between some tense moments of combat and adventure, and a hoighty-toity looking guy. What’s up with that guy?  

19. NBA 2K21

If you miss basketball as much as I do, this trailer really hits home. Zion Williams looks great in this, and if it’s more of the same from the NBA 2K series, this will be hugely satisfying for anyone craving sports. 

20. Bugsnax

From the creators of Octodad is an adorable game about bug snacks. Are they snacks? Yes. Are they bugs? Absolutely. Bugsnax! It brings up memories of Viva Pinata but with a foodie tilt and a more humorous approach.

21. Demon’s Souls

Did you want a new Dark Souls game? Maybe a Bloodborne 2 or Sekiro 2? Well how about going back to the game that started it all with a remaster of Demon’s Souls, a game that most people who love Dark Souls and Bloodborne probably haven’t touched. 

22. Deathloop

A group of assassins. One target being hunted. A time loop. Deathloop, which first was teased in 2019, looks like it’s full of all kinds of creative ways to kill and be killed on this weird island where time seems to be repeating itself.

23. Resident Evil 8: Village

This trailer came with a shocking twist. This horror-filled game, which looks like it may be in first-person similarly to Resident Evil 7, doesn’t really nod to the Resident Evil series very clearly, outside of terrifying villagers that want to kill you for some reason. And it looks like there are werewolves now. Great.

24. Pragmata

This vaguely unsettling game really doesn’t give us much to work with. It looks like an apocalypse happened with the emptiness of Times Square and the astronaut person taking a girl to the moon seems to suggest a finality to the planet. What kind of game is it? Don’t know.

25. Horizon: Forbidden West

Aloy is back for a new, beautiful adventure filled with all kind of mechanical beasts, nods at an apocalypse, and stunning environments. While there’s plenty of cool, somewhat relaxing new stuff to look at in Forbidden West, there are big new threats too, including a group of people with big metal mammoths.