Unlike the PS4 games, Sony has allowed backwards compatibility for the PlayStation 5. You can play your purchased PlayStation 4 games on your PS5, and both digital and physical content will work. Additionally, backwards compatibility is not the only surprise. Sony has also added some upgrades to quite a few of these PS4 games, which allows them to run so much better on the PS5. It essentially turns the PS4 port into a PS5 version with the application of a free patch download. Now, some games require you to purchase this upgrade, but there is a large catalogue of games that come with the free next-generation upgrade.
All PS4 Games With PS5 Upgrades
In simple terms, a PS5 upgrade patch mostly means higher frame rates and resolutions for a game. This allows players to play through their favourite PS4 games at an increased resolution and boosted FPS. Loading times also get reduced with such upgrade patches since the PS4 titles start utilising the PS5’s SSD.
Here’s a list of all the PS4 games that get a free upgrade patch on the PS5; alphabetically categorised:
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Atelier Ryza 2
- Battlefield 2042
- Biomutant
- Borderlands 3
- Brewmaster
- Bugsnax
- Bus Simulator 21
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Cities Skylines
- Cloudpunk
- Control: Ultimate Edition
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
- Cricket 22: The Official Game of the Ashes
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Dead By Daylight
- Demon’s Tier+
- Destiny 2
- Dirt 5
- Doom Eternal
- Elden Ring
- F1 2021
- Far Cry 6
- FIFA 21
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- For Honor
- Furi
- Ghostrunner
- Godfall
- GreedFall
- Guilty Gear Strive
- Hades
- Hellpoint
- Hitman 3
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Immortals Fenyx Rising
- Kena: Bridges of Spirits
- King Oddball
- Knockout City
- Kona
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Little Nightmares II
- Lost Judgment
- Madden NFL 21
- Maid of Sker
- Maneater
- Manifold Garden
- Marvel’s Avengers
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Metro Exodus
- Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
- Nioh 2
- NBA 2K21: Mamba Forever Edition
- Mortal Shell
- My Friend Peppa Pig
- Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate
- No Man’s Sky
- Nobody Saves the World
- Oddworld: Soulstorm
- Outriders
- Outward: The Brothers DLC
- Overcooked: All You Can Eat Edition
- Planet Coaster: Console Edition
- Port Royale 4
- Praey for the Gods
- Resident Evil 2
- Resident Evil 3
- Resident Evil 4
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Resident Evil Village
- Riddled Corpses EX
- Riders Republic
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure
- Saints Row: The Third Remastered
- Shakedown Hawaii
- Shantae
- Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
- Shantae and the Seven Sirens
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
- Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut
- Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
- Snowrunner
- Sonic Origins
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Subnautica
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania
- Tennis World Tour 2: Ace Edition
- Terminator: Resistance Enhanced
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Anniversary Edition
- The Pathless
- The Persistence
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2: Digital Deluxe Edition
- Train Sim World 2
- Transport Fever 2
- Watch Dogs Legion
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- World War Z: Aftermath
- WRC 9
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon
This is the current list of games that have a confirmed free upgrade from the PS4 version to the PS5 version.
