15 PS5 games from last week's livestreams we're most excited about

Last week's gaming livestreams — Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Showcase, and others — dropped so many announcements that keeping up was genuinely exhausting. Push Square's editors cut through the noise and picked 15 PS5 games that actually got them excited.

The list spans wildly different genres. Alien Isolation 2 showed little in its trailer but the original game's decade-old reputation carries serious weight. Bancho the Chef, a prequel to Dave the Diver starring the series' most stylish character, landed as a genuine surprise — cooking minigames, genre-bending distractions, and a lot of personality. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 was the unlikely standout for at least one editor, specifically the DMZ extraction mode shown at the Xbox Showcase, which nailed the immersive multiplayer vibe that mainline CoD has lost. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's showing was hype enough to convert a self-described skeptic of the Remake trilogy, with promises of greater freedom and expanded gameplay systems. Gen Atlas, the newly named action-adventure from Fumito Ueda featuring giant robots, captivated with atmosphere alone despite scarce details — one editor is already braced for 27fps and loving it. God of War Laufey's 20-minute introduction raised more questions than it answered about Faye's afterlife, which is apparently exactly what the editors wanted. Gundam Rogue Orbit excited Gundam fans starved of a big-budget entry, even if the reveal trailer barely looked like Gundam at all. Marvel's Wolverine also made the cut, though the source was cut off before the full write-up appeared.

The editors note the list could easily have been three or four times longer — last week was that packed.