Best PS5 Games Black Friday Deals 2026

Astro Bot is the PS5 game we would recommend to almost anyone who owns the console. It won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024, holds a Metacritic score of 94, and IGN put it in the same company as Super Mario Odyssey. It also does more with the DualSense controller than any other game on this list, which is the point of buying a PS5 in the first place. With an E10+ rating and no in-game purchases, it suits a family as well as an adult player.

Skip it if you want something to last all winter. Team Asobi's own estimate is 12 to 15 hours.

This is not a deal yet. At about $45 it costs a couple of dollars more than its 90-day average, and it sold for about $33 in February. We would wait for Black Friday week.

Clair Obscur won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2025 and took a record nine awards that night. It is the RPG we would pick for anyone who grew up on Final Fantasy: IGN described it as an ode to that series, and GamesRadar+ called it an outstanding visionary debut for Sandfall Interactive. The fights are turn-based, but you dodge and parry enemy attacks in real time, which keeps every battle active.

Push Square and Gfinity both note that the parry timing has a learning curve, and the game has no minimap, which some players will miss. It is rated M.

At about $50 it sits a few dollars above its 90-day average, so this is not a deal. It sold for $40 last December, which is the price to watch for.

Ghost of Yōtei is Sony's newest big exclusive and our open-world pick. Sucker Punch, the studio behind Ghost of Tsushima, tells a new story in 1600s Hokkaido, so you do not need to have played the first game. GameSpot gave it 9 out of 10 and Game Informer 9.3. IGN was cooler at 8 out of 10, finding the revenge story predictable, but agreed that the scenery and sword fights carry it.

If you have tired of open-world games built on map markers and side camps, this one will not change your mind; it refines the formula more than it reinvents it.

At about $54 it is a couple of dollars under its 90-day average, a small saving. It sold for $49 during Sony's Days of Play sale in late May.

Spider-Man 2 is the best superhero game on the console, and GamesRadar+ went further, calling it the quintessential one. Swinging across New York is fast enough to feel like a ride, IGN singled out how quickly it loads and fast-travels, and you switch between Peter Parker and Miles Morales as the story needs. Its T rating makes it the action game here we would buy for a teenager.

Kotaku and PC Gamer both found the Venom arc squeezed into too short a stretch near the end, and the story assumes you know the first game and Miles Morales.

Do not buy it at this price. At about $52 it costs about $4 more than its 90-day average, and Amazon sold it for $29 in late May. Discounts of that size have come around in several sales this year.

God of War Ragnarök matches Astro Bot's Metacritic 94, and IGN called it one of the easiest PS5 games to recommend. It continues the story of Kratos and his son Atreus from God of War (2018), with weightier combat and more of the Norse realms to explore. It suits anyone who wants a long, story-led action game and does not mind an M rating.

IGN noted that its quieter, slower sections drag for some players, and the story lands harder if you have played the 2018 game first.

This is one of two real discounts on the list. At about $38 it is roughly $10 under its 90-day average, though last year it fell under $20 on Amazon during Thanksgiving week, so it may get cheaper. Amazon showed a delayed ship date when we checked, so check the delivery estimate if it is a gift.

Resident Evil Requiem is the best-reviewed new release of 2026 so far and our horror pick. IGN gave it 9 out of 10 and Game Informer 9.75, and GamesRadar+ called it the most cinematic and emotional game in the series. GameSpot was less taken at 8 out of 10, saying the nods to older entries make parts of it feel like a remake.

Expect a short campaign, roughly 10 to 16 hours across reviews, and a second half that trades exploration for corridors and set pieces. It carries optional in-game purchases and an M rating.

This is the clearest saving here. At about $50 it is roughly $12 under its 90-day average and matches its lowest price of the past year. The Amazon edition is the standard game with a double-sided poster.

Split Fiction is the game to buy for two people on one couch. Hazelight's follow-up to It Takes Two was Metacritic's highest-rated game of early 2025, and reviewers rank it among the best two-player co-op games, because it keeps changing its settings and mechanics from one chapter to the next. For online play, one copy is enough: your partner downloads the free Friend's Pass, though online co-op needs PlayStation Plus.

It cannot be played alone, so skip it if you have no regular partner. Digital Trends also found the story muddled and the structure disjointed.

It is the cheapest Pick on the list, which earns it our budget badge, but it is only about a dollar under its 90-day average. Amazon sold it for $30 during Thanksgiving week last year.

Elden Ring shares the highest Metacritic score on PS5, 96, with Baldur's Gate 3. GamesRadar+ ranks it among the best open-world games of its era, and TechRadar points out that you need no experience of FromSoftware's earlier games to start. IGN called it a fine starting point for the genre. It suits patient players who enjoy learning a fight by losing it.

Everyone else should know that GamesRadar+ also called it exceptionally punishing, and the game rarely tells you where to go.

We wanted the Shadow of the Erdtree Edition, which adds the expansion, but Amazon was not selling it when we checked and third-party sellers wanted well over $100. The base game is about $40, a few dollars under its 90-day average. It fell to $15 during Thanksgiving week last year.