Key Takeaways
- Sony plans to return to releasing major single-player PlayStation games yearly.
- The corporate intends to resume this practice ranging from its next fiscal 12 months, which begins in April 2025.
- Ghost of Yotei will likely be the following big single-player PS5 exclusive from a PlayStation studio.
Sony intends to return to releasing major single-player PS5 games on an annual basis ranging from 2025, a senior company official has said. This promise is certain to be welcome news for PlayStation fans following the recent drought of single-player titles from the Japanese gaming giant.
Although the PS5 received a good variety of single-player console exclusives in 2024, none of them got here from Sony-owned studios. While The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered may very well be considered an exception, it wasn’t a brand new release.
This recent lack of huge first-party single-player exclusives for the PS5 is not here to remain. That is in keeping with Sony President and CFO Hiroki Totoki, who said as much during an early November Q&A session following the corporate’s latest financial earnings call. Specifically, the manager revealed that Sony intends to release “major single-player game titles yearly” ranging from its next fiscal 12 months, which is scheduled to kick off on April 1, 2025.
2 Big Single-Player PS5 Exclusives Are Already Confirmed for 2025
The primary wave of those titles already has one confirmed first-party game, the recently announced Ghost of Yotei, which is presently targeting a 2025 launch. Apart from Sucker Punch Productions’ Ghost of Tsushima sequel, Death Stranding 2 can be planned to hit the market sometime in 2025. Given Sony’s history of favoring longer marketing cycles for major single-player releases, it’s unlikely the corporate has more such titles planned for 2025, as they might plausibly have been announced by now.
All Upcoming Single-Player PS5 Console Exclusives (That Have Been Confirmed)
Game | Developer | Release Window |
|---|---|---|
Death Stranding 2 | Kojima Productions | 2025 |
Ghost of Yotei | Sucker Punch | 2025 |
Ballad of Antara | Tipsworks Studio | 2025 |
The Midnight Walk | MoonHood | 2025 |
Marvel’s Wolverine | Insomniac Games | TBD |
Horizon 3 | Guerrilla Games | TBD |
Sword of the Sea | Giant Squid | TBD |
Phantom Blade Zero | S-GAME | TBD |
Where Winds Meet | Everstone Studios | TBD |
While Phantom Blade Zero and Where Winds Meet will offer some multiplayer functionality, they’re primarily billed as single-player games.
First-party content aside, the PS5 currently has two more single-player console exclusives confirmed for 2025. Considered one of them is Ballad of Antara, a dark fantasy motion RPG from Shanghai, China-based studio TipsWorks. The opposite is a dark adventure game with horror elements called The Midnight Walk, which is presently within the works at Swedish developer MoonHood. Each Ballad of Antara and The Midnight Walk are also planned to be day-one PC releases.
Regarding unannounced first-party titles from Sony, Horizon Call of the Mountain developer Firesprite is currently known to be working on multiple projects, very similar to Naughty Dog. Meanwhile, Days Gone developer Bend Studio has a brand new open-world game within the pipeline, as suggested by a few of its recent job listings reviewed by Game Rant. Given Sony’s growing deal with live-service experiences, there is a likelihood that not all of those titles are going to be of the single-player variety. But the following two PlayStation live-service games are most probably going to be Bungie’s Marathon and Haven Studios’ Fairgames, each of which have already been announced.
