(Pocket-lint) – Time doesn’t ever stop flying by, but that also means that there are plenty of new games being announced all the time. Even if the PlayStation 5 is finally out, the PS4 still has a host of great games coming down the pike. 

We’re expecting to see plenty more in 2021 and beyond. There’s a lot to get excited about! 

Here, then, are the cream of the crop, with release dates and trailers for each game. You’ll find them listed in chronological order according to their release date, so that you can see what to put on your wishlist next.

• Also check out our list of the very best PS4 games that you simply must own 

Biomutant

• Release date: 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also PC and Xbox
• Publisher: THQ Nordic

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Biomutant is a brilliant looking open-world action RPG that will allow players to combine mutant powers and a wealth of weaponry to customise their characters into the ultimate hero or villain. The fate of the world is in your hands.   

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2

• Release date: 2021
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Paradox Interactive

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It’s only taken 15 years but a sequel to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is on its way. It is an in-depth, first-person RPG, like the original, but this time on consoles as well as PC. We can’t wait.

Kerbal Space Program 2

• Release date: 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Private Division

You can once again attempt to send Kerbals into space with a bigger, friendly sequel to one of the best tongue-in-cheek simulation games of all time.

Psychonauts 2

• Release date: 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Double Fine
• See the official site

Double Fine studios is finally returning to one of its game franchises that people remember most fondly. Hurrah!

Rainbow Six Quarantine

• Release date: 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft
• See the official site

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Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Quarantine is a three-player tactical co-op FPS coming in 2020. It appears to be a spin-off from the Rainbow Six Siege Outbreak mode that made an appearance in 2018 – maybe even a direct sequel. It’s set in the near future where a mutated alien parasite is infecting human hosts and causing no end of problems. Players must team up to battle it out against the environment and survive unpredictable missions. 

Away: The Survival Series

• Release date: 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on PC
• Publisher: Breaking Walls

Playing as a Sugar Glider flying mammal, you have to avoid predators and other dangerous beasts in order to survive in this third-person action-adventure game.

Outriders

• Release date: September 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Square Enix
• See the official site

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Outriders is a new co-op shooter created by the same team that worked on Gears of War Judgement and Bulletstorm. It’s a drop-in-drop-out affair with a dark and desperate sci-fi vibe. We don’t have much to go on at the moment, but it certainly looks intriguing and a whole lot of fun to play with friends. 

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

• Release date: 2021
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One, PC and Switch
• Publisher: Warner Bros.
• See the official site

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Love Star Wars and Lego? Then we’ve got good news. This new Lego-themed Star Wars game that’s set to let you play through all nine Star Wars films in one massive adventure. One potentially awesome highlight will be the ability to travel to any planet, in any order, at any time.

Elden Ring

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: FromSoftware

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Elden Ring is a new fantasy RPG that’s bound to be incredibly punishing and intriguing too. It’s the result of a collaboration between George R. R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones) and the team behind Dark Souls. Expect a wonderful fantasy game with a whole lot of death and mayhem.

Skull & Bones

• Release date: 2021
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft

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A classic example of why not to show games at a major show too long before they are ready, Skull & Bones didn’t even make a reappearance at E3 2019 or Gamescom in the same year. That put its previous “2019” vague release date into the realms of unlikely. We might see it at in 2021 instead, it is thought.

Beyond Good And Evil 2

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Ubisoft

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Announced during E3 in June 2017, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is long overdue, especially considering the first was released over 15 years ago, and we still have no clue when it might be ready. The game’s other-world setting – where multiple species communicate and interact – is quirky, cheeky and stunning. Think The Fifth Element in video game form and you’re halfway there.

Starfield

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Bethesda

We know nothing about Starfield apart from the fact that it will be the first all-new IP from Bethesda Softworks for 25 years. Some are suggesting that it will be a sci-fi epic RPG: Skyrim in Space, basically.

The Elder Scrolls VI

• Release date: TBC
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC (probably)
• Publisher: Bethesda

Never has a logo created so much excitement. The sequel to Skyrim might not even be for this generation of consoles, but we’re still tingling with anticipation nonetheless.

Dying Light 2

• Release date: 2020
• PS4 exclusive: No, also on Xbox One and PC
• Publisher: Techland

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One of our favourite zombie games of the last decade returns with more first-person parkour fun and even scarier nighttime runs. One of the other new features is a dynamic game world that shifts and changes based on your choices during key missions. Your game, therefore, can end up being very different from another player’s.

Writing by Rik Henderson and Adrian Willings. Editing by Britta O’Boyle.