The Top PlayStation Trends Of 2022: From Cats And Surreal Sports To Asymmetrical Horror

Sony SONY’s PlayStation, one of the world’s most popular video game brands, has revealed a list of the top trends of 2022.

With this year coming to an end, and with a lot of anticipation for 2023 releases, it's always good to revisit the best that the console has given us these past 12 months.

PlayStation And Accessibility

During 2022, games like “God of War: Ragnarok” and the “The Last of Us Part I” included accessibility options such as audie cues, cinematic audio descriptions, auto-platformig, navigational assistance, high contrast mode, and more.

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Thus, these exciting titles were inclusive and open to wider audiences, and all gamers could enjoy the thrilling experience of playing these video games.

Cat Power

Our feline friends had main character energy during 2022. For example, “Stray” is a videogame that follows a stray cat who falls into a walled city populated by robots, machines, and mutant bacteria, and sets out to return to the surface with the help of a drone companion.

Moreover, games starring cats released this year include “Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series,” “Sonic Frontiers,” “Ghostwire Tokyo,” and “Persona 5 Royal.” All these titles had kittens helping out and accompanying the hero’s journey. Will cats be humankind's best friends at last?

We Are Family

How many times have we heard the phrase “family is the most important thing”? Well, this affirmation does come true in some of PlayStation’s releases of 2022.
For instance, “A Plague Tale: Requiem” depicts two siblings, Amicia and Hugo, supporting one another against all odds, while “God of War: Ragnarok” has Kratos growing a lot as a father.

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But family also is what you make it to be: that’s why we loved games like “Persona 5: Royal” and its family of misfits and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge,” with our lovable turtle family.

Surreal Sports?

2022 saw some videogames that pushed sports beyond reality: that’s the case of “Windjammers 2,” a hyper-real game of frisbee, “OlliOlli World,” a cartoony 2D skateboarding game, “Cursed to Golf,” a golf game set in purgatory itself, and “Rollerdrome,” where players must perform roller-skating tricks while fighting against deadly robotic enemies.

Fulfill all of your extreme sports fantasies with any of these amazing titles.

Asymmetrical Horror

The horror genre now offers a new possibility: you can now battle the terrors along with your friends, thanks to asymmetrical horror.

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Titles like “Dead by Daylight,” “Evil Dead: The Game,” “Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed,” Back 4 Blood,” and “Resident Evil Re: Verse” are exponents of this brand-new genre.