# The 14 Best PlayStation 3 Games of All Time

> The generation that made games look cinematic, plus a few odd ones that ignored the memo.

*By YPB Team · Published August 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-14-best-playstation-3-games-of-all-time*

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1. **The Last of Us** — score 1000/1000
   Naughty Dog's 2013 survival story, the console's defining send-off.
2. **Red Dead Redemption** — score 831/1000
   The 2010 western that turned Rockstar's open world into something mournful.
3. **Demon's Souls** — score 516/1000
   FromSoftware's 2009 cult hit, the game that started the Souls genre.
4. **Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch** — score 516/1000
   A Level-5 JRPG animated in collaboration with Studio Ghibli.
5. **LittleBigPlanet** — score 461/1000
   Media Molecule's handmade platformer built around player-made levels.
6. **Metal Gear Solid 4** — score 400/1000
   Kojima's PS3-exclusive send-off for Solid Snake.
7. **God of War III** — score 330/1000
   Kratos's brutal, spectacle-driven assault on Olympus.
8. **Uncharted 2: Among Thieves** — score 329/1000
   The set-piece adventure that set the template for cinematic action games.
9. **Dark Souls** — score 329/1000
   The interlocking world and punishing combat that made the formula famous.
10. **The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim** — score 329/1000
   Bethesda's 2011 open world, re-released on nearly everything since.
11. **Journey** — score 248/1000
   Thatgamecompany's wordless desert pilgrimage with anonymous co-op.
12. **BioShock** — score 248/1000
   The 2007 shooter set in the drowned objectivist city of Rapture.
13. **Mass Effect 2** — score 154/1000
   BioWare's suicide-mission RPG, still the series' high point for many players.
14. **Grand Theft Auto IV** — score 42/1000
   Rockstar's grim Liberty City reboot and one of the highest-rated games ever released.

Tags: games, consoles, playstation, 2010s
