Best upcoming PS4 games to look forward to in 2021 and beyond

(Pocket-lint) - Time doesn't ever halt flying by, but that besides means that determination are plentifulness of caller games being announced each the time. Even if the PlayStation 5 is yet out, the PS4 inactive has a big of large games coming down the pike. 

Here, then, are the pick of the crop, with merchandise dates and trailers for each game. You'll find them listed successful chronological bid according to their merchandise date, truthful that you tin spot what to enactment connected your wishlist next.

• Also cheque retired our database of the precise champion PS4 games that you simply indispensable own 

Fry Cry 6

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• Release date: 7 October 2021
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected PS5, Xbox and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft

Far Cry is back, and this clip it looks similar it mightiness person its astir believable villain yet. You'll beryllium exploring the land federation of Yara and trying to escaped it from a dastardly dictator, utilizing a immense scope of cobbled-together weaponry to person an explosive bully time.

Battlefield 2042

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• Release date: 22 October 2021
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected PS5, Xbox and PC
• Publisher: EA

The adjacent Battlefield crippled looks similar it should beryllium perfectly superb fun, and adjacent if the PS4 volition lone beryllium capable to enactment 64-player maps, it should inactive beryllium different implicit playground of destruction. The bid is returning to modern weaponry, too, truthful we're looking guardant to plentifulness of helicopter, pitchy and tank-based action.

Call of Duty Vanguard

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• Release date: 5 November 2021
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected PS5, Xbox and PC
• Publisher: Activision

The adjacent Call of Duty is taking america backmost to World War II for an action-packed run on with the expected frenetic and fast-paced multiplayer action. It's besides going to bring a caller representation and weapons to Call of Duty: Warzone, truthful there's plentifulness to get excited for.

Dying Light 2

• Release date: 7 December 2021
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected PS5, Xbox and PC
• Publisher: Techland

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One of our favourite zombie games of the past decennary returns with much first-person parkour amusive and adjacent scarier nighttime runs. One of the different caller features is simply a dynamic crippled satellite that shifts and changes based connected your choices during cardinal missions. Your game, therefore, tin extremity up being precise antithetic from different player's.

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2

• Release date: 2021
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Paradox Interactive

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It's lone taken 15 years but a sequel to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is connected its way. It is an in-depth, first-person RPG, similar the original, but this clip connected consoles arsenic good arsenic PC. We can't wait.

Rainbow Six Extraction

• Release date: January 2022
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction is simply a three-player tactical co-op FPS, a spin-off from the Rainbow Six Siege Outbreak mode that made an quality successful 2018 - possibly adjacent a nonstop sequel. It's acceptable successful the adjacent aboriginal wherever a mutated alien parasite is infecting quality hosts and causing nary extremity of problems. Players indispensable squad up to conflict it retired against the situation and survive unpredictable missions. 

Elden Ring

• Release date: 21 January 2022
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: FromSoftware

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Elden Ring is simply a caller phantasy RPG that's bound to beryllium incredibly punishing and intriguing too. It's the effect of a collaboration betwixt George R. R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones) and the squad down Dark Souls. Expect a fantastic phantasy crippled with a full batch of decease and mayhem.

Horizon Forbidden West

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• Release date: 18 February 2022
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected PS5
• Publisher: Sony

Aloy is backmost for an adjacent bigger escapade aft Horizon Zero Dawn became 1 of the PS4's top sleeper hits. This clip she's exploring retired west, and from the gameplay we've seen truthful acold it looks perfectly great. You'll besides get a escaped upgrade to the PS5 mentation if you people a next-gen console down the line.

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

• Release date: Spring 2022
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox One, PC and Switch
• Publisher: Warner Bros.
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Love Star Wars and Lego? Then we've got bully news. This caller Lego-themed Star Wars crippled that's acceptable to fto you play done each 9 Star Wars films successful 1 monolithic adventure. One perchance awesome item volition beryllium the quality to question to immoderate planet, successful immoderate order, astatine immoderate time.

Away: The Survival Series

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected PC
• Publisher: Breaking Walls

Playing arsenic a Sugar Glider flying mammal, you person to debar predators and different unsafe beasts successful bid to past successful this third-person action-adventure game.

Kerbal Space Program 2

• Release date: 2022
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Private Division

You tin erstwhile again effort to nonstop Kerbals into abstraction with a bigger, affable sequel to 1 of the champion tongue-in-cheek simulation games of each time.

Skull & Bones

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft

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A classical illustration of wherefore not to amusement games astatine a large amusement excessively agelong earlier they are ready, Skull & Bones didn't adjacent marque a reappearance astatine E3 2019 oregon Gamescom successful the aforesaid year. That enactment its erstwhile "2019" vague merchandise day into the realms of unlikely. We mightiness spot it astatine successful 2021 instead, it is thought.

Beyond Good And Evil 2

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive? No, besides connected Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft

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Announced during E3 successful June 2017, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is agelong overdue, particularly considering the archetypal was released implicit 15 years ago, and we inactive person nary hint erstwhile it mightiness beryllium ready. The game's other-world mounting - wherever aggregate taxon pass and interact - is quirky, cheeky and stunning. Think The Fifth Element successful video crippled signifier and you're halfway there.

Writing by Rik Henderson and Adrian Willings. Editing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 5 December 2016.