The Best Philosophical Games for Playstation 5

Update : Centum added at rank #1.
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Centum (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X PC Windows j Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One

Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.


  • psychological
  • point-and-click
  • horror
  • philosophical
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • dark
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • gore
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • exploration

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Manifold Garden (2019)

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Mac OS IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5

Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.


  • abstract
  • surreal
  • philosophical
  • nonlinear
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic
  • experimental
  • minimalist
  • multiple-endings
  • first-person
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • colourful
  • mystery

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Tux and Fanny (2021)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Linux Xbox One

A retro-inspired adventure puzzle game featuring multiple playable characters with interwoven storylines. Explore the natural (and unnatural) world for unique interactions and unlock items to aid you in your quest. There's nothing as simultaneously charming and strange as the world of Tux and Fanny.


  • soccer
  • philosophical
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • nature
  • retro
  • capitalism
  • colourful
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • psychedelic

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The Wreck (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Mac OS

In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.


  • narration
  • dynamic
  • drama
  • choices
  • conversation
  • philosophical
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • cinematic
  • point-and-click
  • emotional
  • story
  • stylized
  • psychological

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The Forest Quartet (2022)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows

The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.


  • music
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • puzzle
  • linear
  • relaxing
  • isometric
  • stylized
  • story
  • emotional
  • minimalist
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • colourful

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Manifold (2021)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Mac OS

The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.


  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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Dreaming Sarah (2015)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Linux Xbox One PC Windows

Dreaming Sarah is a surreal adventure platformer game with puzzle elements, an engaging environment, an incredibly diverse cast of characters, and of course, a young girl named Sarah. Sarah has been in an accident and is currently in a coma. It's up to you to help her wake up by exploring her dream world. Features: * Explore mysterious psychological areas * Collect, equip and use items * Interact with a vast cast of weird characters * Solve brain-teasing puzzles


  • surreal
  • philosophical
  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • abstract
  • supernatural
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • adventure

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Time Flies (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Android PC Windows Mac OS

A game about our limited time in this world.


  • life
  • philosophical
  • flight
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • simulation
  • pixel
  • adventure
  • manipulation
  • time
  • open-world
  • survival

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Sunshower (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 5 j Nintendo Switch

Sunshower is a colorful, casual arcade action game that follows a robot's survival in a rain storm! Use the plant installed on your head to reach for the sky as you achieve high scores, unlock secrets, and stop the rain from washing away the world.


  • attack
  • score
  • agriculture
  • steampunk
  • shoot-em-up
  • philosophical
  • hand-drawn
  • magic
  • nature
  • cartoony
  • arcade
  • bullet-hell
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • minimalist

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Back Then (2023)

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Back Then is a first-person narrative game taking place in the mind of Thomas Eilian, an elderly writer diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.


  • soundtrack
  • emotional
  • philosophical
  • story
  • short
  • walking-simulator
  • narration
  • first-person
  • cinematic
  • dark
  • abstract
  • psychological
  • exploration
  • drama
  • perspective

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