Best Knight Games for PS5 & PS4

Why it's here: The best knight game on PlayStation, and the only one that makes knighthood feel earned rather than granted. You start as Henry, a blacksmith's son, and every skill from swordplay to reading is learned in a Bohemia that remembers how you behaved. The story is beautiful in its patience, letting a civil war unfold at the pace of a man walking between villages. The recurring complaint in PlayStation Store reviews is the directional combat and the save system, which punish carelessness hard. Worth it for anyone who wants to live the rank, not just wear the armour. 4.6 stars from 42,319 PlayStation reviews, ESRB Mature.

Why it's here: Best open world here, and the one knight fantasy that hands you the armour and then refuses to tell you where to go. Pick the Vagabond and you are a Tarnished knight in the Lands Between from the first minute, with a cathedral or catacomb in every direction and a boss waiting in most of them. The atmosphere carries the story; the lore has to be dug out of item descriptions. Steam reviews single out the exploration and build variety, and the recurring caveat is quest lines you can fail without ever knowing they existed. Keep a guide open. 4.7 stars from 174,869 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best combat on the list: faster and more aggressive than the earlier Souls games, with the stamina discipline intact and a boss roster FromSoftware sharpened to a point. The Knight starting class is the classic way in, shield up, learning each enemy's rhythm one death at a time through ash-choked cathedrals and a kingdom that has already fallen. Steam reviews praise the bosses and the lore almost without qualification; the one steady complaint from series veterans is a level path that runs more linear than the original's interlocking world. If the fights matter more than the wandering, start here. 4.8 stars from 93,087 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best PS5 exclusive, and the origin of everything the Souls games later became, rebuilt by Bluepoint from the ground up. Five realms branch from the Nexus, each darkening or lightening with how you behave in it, and the Knight class with its heavy shield remains the most forgiving way through. Critics received it as one of the PS5's strongest launch titles for the visual rebuild alone. The reservation, raised by longtime fans on the game's subreddit, is that the brighter lighting and rerecorded score trade the original's grimy dread for cleaner dark fantasy. On PS Plus Extra, so the cost of finding out is low. 4.3 stars from 34,820 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best story, if you let it breathe. The original Kingdom Come is rougher than its sequel in every technical sense, but Henry's rise from a burned village to a lord's service has a slower, more personal arc, and the ending earns the hours. Combat is learned the hard way here too, and the recurring complaint in Steam reviews is exactly that: a clunky, punishing swordplay system that only clicks after real practice, plus bugs the sequel mostly fixed. Play it first if you want the whole campaign in order; play the sequel first if patience is short. 4.1 stars from 32,000 PlayStation reviews, ESRB Mature.

Why it's here: Best multiplayer, and the closest a PlayStation game gets to the muddy chaos of a medieval battlefield: 64 players, siege ladders, severed limbs and a great deal of shouting. There is no story to speak of, which is unusual for me to forgive, but the atmosphere of a full team charging a gate does the work a script would. Steam reviews praise the combat feel and the community's role-play habits; the sharp caveat is cheaters and a thin update schedule, which is what drags the PS Store score below the rest of this list. On PS Plus Extra, so try it before you judge it. 3.8 stars from 15,187 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best duels, and the only game here built entirely around the one-on-one: block direction, feint, parry, punish, with knights, vikings and samurai each fighting by their own rules. Nearly a decade on it still has a player base, which says something about how good the core exchange is. The honest caveat is that Steam reviews currently run negative, and not about the swordplay: balance patches, matchmaking, server quality and microtransactions are the recurring complaints. Come for the dueling and treat the live-service layer as weather. On PS Plus Extra. 4.0 stars from 80,527 PlayStation reviews, ESRB Mature.

Why it's here: Best sandbox: nobody hands you a knighthood in Calradia. You assemble one from a handful of recruits, a first tournament win and a lord willing to take you on, and the campaign is whatever you make of it, from mercenary captain to kingmaker, with the battles putting you personally in the charge with a lance. Steam reviews praise the depth and the freedom above all; the recurring complaints are crashes, weak battle AI and a late game where kingdom management thins out. Console players also lose the mods the PC crowd leans on. Still the best way to earn a banner from nothing. 4.3 stars from 11,000 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best for a party, because the knight here never fights alone: the Fighter vocation gives you sword and shield, and the Pawn system fills the other three slots with an AI companion of your own design plus two borrowed from other players' worlds. You climb griffins mid-fight and the physics does the rest. The atmosphere of an unguided journey is the whole point, with fast travel scarce by design. Steam reviews are mixed, and the recurring complaints are a thin story, repeated enemy types and performance in towns; the exploration and combat get the praise. Worth it if the road matters more than the destination. 4.1 stars from 38,000 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best tactics, and the one game on this list where you command the Round Table rather than join it: you are Sir Mordred, returned to a rotting Avalon to put an undying Arthur down for good. Turn-based fights, a roster of knights with their own loyalties and a morality system that quietly decides who stays. The dark atmosphere is the best thing going for it. Steam reviews praise the combat depth and the setting, with repetitive mission structure and uneven voice acting as the recurring complaints. Rated Teen, so it is the least bloody door into Arthurian legend here. 4.5 stars from 733 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best Arthurian pick for anyone who wants Avalon as an open world rather than a tactics board: a first-person RPG in the Skyrim mould, set after the legend has curdled, where the Round Table is a memory and the land itself is sick. The story is the draw, told through a decaying kingdom and factions with no clean side. Steam reviews praise the atmosphere and the build freedom, and the recurring caveats are combat that gets too easy by mid-game and quest pacing that wanders. Worth it for readers who liked Kingdom Come's grounding but want their knights back inside a myth. 4.3 stars from 6,300 PlayStation reviews.

Why it's here: Best 2D, and the one knight on this list armed with a garden tool. Five campaigns in the Treasure Trove, each playable as a different knight of the Order of No Quarter, with a light-hearted medieval story that is warmer than it first looks. The pixel art and the soundtrack are beautiful, and the campaigns hold together as one long tale. Steam reviews are overwhelmingly positive; the recurring complaint is difficulty spikes and long death animations, and a minority find the Joustus card game an unnecessary detour. Rated Everyone, and the only entry here you can hand to a child. 4.8 stars from 14,276 PlayStation reviews.