There was a long period, when PlayStation were really defensive of their games, protecting their exclusives from the heathen hardware of Xbox and PC. Times, however, have changed, and while Xbox can only hope and dream to have certain titles, PC has received a fair few games previously deemed PS-only, and amazingly, they all turned out incredibly well. Many received substantial technical upgrades from their graphics and performance, while others got new options which, generally made great use of PC hardware’s higher power ceiling.
Why don’t we take a look at some of these impressive PS-to-PC ports?
Transformative success
First of all, comes the highly anticipated PC release for May 2024, Ghost of Tsushima. It’s the very first Sucker Punch Productions’… production to make the jump from PS. PC users have missed out on Infamous and the Sly Cooper games, so it’s nice that we do get to play the studio’s latest hit.
Ghost of Tsushima brings you back in time to the first Mongol invasion of Japan. You play the role of a survivor of the initial attempted invasion, who decides to wage a one-man war against the Mongols. Through the game, you’ll get to explore an absolutely stunning open world and engage in open combat as well as utilise underhanded tactics, all while enjoying a dramatic, satisfying story about honour, duty, and doing what must be done. But this only the latest in a great chain of fantastic PS games coming to PC.
The current era of high-profile, high-quality ports started in earnest thanks to Horizon Zero Dawn pioneering the PS to PC releases. HZD was already impressive on PS4, and when it came to PC, it somehow managed to look even better, delivering a stunning and interesting vision of a postapocalyptic Earth dominated by robotic versions of extinct animals. Unfortunately, a strange phenomenon is causing them to be aggressive. Aloy, a young hunter must find a way to neutralise this rising threat. It’s a great blend of open-world action, science fiction story, and excellent art design.
Another game styled after the less urbanized era of humanity is God of War, a series whose bulk sadly remains as PS exclusives. Fortunately, the PC crowd was still able to enjoy the first instalment for the soft reboot, originally released in 2018. It shifted the gameplay closer to third-person action, and now that Kratos lives in mythic Scandinavia instead of his Greek homeland, he’s armed with a frosty axe instead of his flaming chained blades from the original series. There’s also a stronger and more serious story to link tense combat encounters together.
Of course, the ports aren’t all removed from the modern world. Take, for example, Insomniac’s Spider-Man games, which later arrived to PC in 2022 after some time in PS exclusivity. They are easily among the finest superhero simulators on the market, doing for Spidey what Batman Arkham games did for the Caped Crusader. Web-slinging across Manhattan, fighting villains, and seeing how Peter’s and Miles’ private lives were on the verge of collapse because of their super heroics is as faithful to the source material as the Spider-Man gaming experience can get.
This list isn’t complete without Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection which, in a weird move, brought to PC the final instalment of this phenomenal action-adventure series and its spin-off, without the three games that came before. Despite this gap, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is easily one of the most thrilling adventure movies since 1999’s The Mummy, and it has the added benefit of also being an exceptionally amazing game, with fun puzzles, engaging level design, and spectacular action sequences.
Plenty more to hope for
There may be more PlayStation exclusives in the future, allowing us to hope that Bloodborne and Demon's Souls will also come to PC alongside their From Software counterparts. And when this future arrives, they’ll join the exclusives you can get right now on the G2A.COM marketplace.
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