The best battle royale games on PS4 and PS5

Naraka: Bladepoint

Join your friends in fast-paced melee fights, using personally customised heroes that can wall-run and zipline across the ever-shrinking battlefield.

• Create your own playstyle using a wide array of heroes and weaponry, and master combos, counters and parries on your way to victory.
• How you play is up to you – take your team into a range of competitive modes, fight solo through rich campaigns, and enjoy regularly updated seasonal content.
• Feel the excitement of close-quarters combat and free-flowing movement in the beautiful lands of Morus and Holoroth, environments inspired by Far Eastern legends.

Fall Guys

Jump into this party royale game where contestants compete in escalating rounds of absurd obstacle course chaos until one lucky victor remains.

• Tumble solo between competitive free-for-alls and cooperative challenges, or take on the Blunderdome with up to three friends.
• Compete with friends using cross-play, cross-platform parties and cross-progression via your Epic Games account.
• Customise your avatar with a multitude of colours, patterns, costumes and nameplates, and celebrate your wins with a range of emotes.

Fortnite

The most iconic of all battle royale experiences is exceptionally well supported and offers a vast array of gameplay modes to suit all moods and tastes.

• Be the last player standing in classic Battle Royale mode, building structures to gain an advantage over 99 other players and achieve a Victory Royale.
• Enter Zero Build to play a streamlined, combat-focused experience with building stripped out. This is all about accurate gunplay and speedy movement.
• Play with a wealth of skins from pop culture, covering movies, TV, anime, music and more. And Fortnite goes deeper still with LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, Fortnite Festival, and thousands of player-made islands ready to explore.

My Hero Ultra Rumble

Pick your favourite character from the hit anime series My Hero Academia and work in teams of three in this colourful and chaotic 24-player battle royale.

• Take control of heroes and villains alike, planning and executing strategies with your teammates to be the last trio standing.
• Pick from one of five character archetypes: Strike, Assault, Support, Rapid and Technical. Mix character types within your team to find the right balance.
• Utilise your Quirk, the superpower-like ability each character possesses, to turn the tide of battle, and watch for updates and additions for your loadouts with each new season.

Warface: Clutch

Formerly known as Warface, this team-based shooter represents an evolution of BR gameplay and remains popular over a decade after its debut.

• Pick from five unique classes - Rifleman, Medic, SED, Engineer and Sniper - each with a special action, such as resupplying ammunition or restoring armour.
• Play PvP and PvE across dozens of maps, ranging from fan favourites to new experiments, and take on an array of raids with your friends.
• Earn Warface Dollars in-game and increase your earnings by using boosters. Use this currency to buy weapons and armour, repair items, and access the premium Battle Pass. 

Super Animal Royale

This 64-player 2D battle royale takes a top-down look at armed-up animals shooting, scrapping and (checks notes) hamster balling to the finish.

• Pick your favourite cutesy critter and arm them to the teeth before diving into the action, either solo or in a squad of up to four players.
• Scavenge new weapons, armour and items while on the field to become the true apex predator.
• Customise your chosen breed of animal with thousands of fun cosmetics, with new outfits, weapons and creatures added with each seasonal update.

Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs

Eat your way through interconnected mazes in this online Pac-Man experience. Use Power Pellets and other items to defeat the Ghosts – and your opponent Pac-Man players – to be the last Pac standing.

• Enjoy the arcade-style Elimination Mode and the high-stakes Ranked Mode with friends using cross-platform play, personalising your Pac to suit your style.
• Power Items include increased speed and defensive shields but be careful about what you collect as some of these items help the Ghosts.
• Escape each maze before it collapses and eliminates you – when the walls start flashing, it’s time to munch your way out of there.

Realm Royale Reforged

Squad up for this team-based battle royale that offers a revived take on one of the genre’s more underrated entries, where magic meets might across a massive fantasy map.

• Work as a team to ultimately succeed, but don’t forget to keep yourself in the fight by picking up weapons, new magical abilities and game-changing items during each match.
• Save time and escape the closing wall of fog around you by summoning a mount and riding away from trouble – or, if you want to, straight into it.
• Defeat isn’t the end, as downed players are reincarnated as chickens. Evade enemies long enough while playing as a feathery fowl and you’ll reappear in your regular form to rejoin the fray.