With the recent release of the hit slash-em up Ghost of Tsushima, the final ever PlayStation 4 exclusive has come and gone. Though it’s the end of an era, there are a ton of PS5 exclusives to look forward to, and until then there are several exclusives that can keep you occupied all the way through to the new generation’s arrival in November.
Alternatively, there are some extremely short exclusives that players can zip through in an afternoon, and possibly even a lunch break! Here are the five longest PS4 exclusives, and the five shortest, that were released in this era of Sony video games.
10 Longest: Final Fantasy XV
It isn’t hard to believe that a Final Fantasy game is one of the longest games of the console’s generation. Though the series didn’t begin on PlayStation consoles, as the franchise dates backs to the 1980s, the Final Fantasy name is synonymous with the game console and is a staple of the PlayStation history timeline. The series is best known for being challenging, having complex RPG gameplay, and being really, really long. Final Fantasy 15 has one of the biggest open worlds in a game, there are so many encounters that players might not have found yet, and though the main story will rack up about 30 hours of gameplay, to 100% complete it could take up to 90 hours.
9 Shortest:Â Infamous: First Light
Though InFAMOUS: First Light is technically DLC of it’s predecessor, InFAMOUS: Second Son, it is a completely standalone game with a new protagonist and an almost totally unrelated story, and it even has it’s own subtitle. A full play through of First Light will only take around four hours, and there are few collectibles or any other reason to return to when completed. However, the game is more streamlined and focused than Second Son, and though that game was named one of the best of 2014, First Light is arguably better.
8 Longest: Bloodborne
Bloodborne is not only one of the longest PlayStation exclusives, but it is one of the longest action horror games of all time too. If players like being terrified for around 80 hours at a time, then Bloodborne is perfect. The game isn’t just an action horror, it is thought provoking, has a hauntingly beautiful score, and is so satisfying in its combat.
What makes Bloodborne maybe even longer than necessary is the game’s insufferable difficulty. The game has some of the hardest levels of any PlayStation exclusive title and the game is utterly unapologetic.
7 Shortest: Shadow Of The Beast
With the advancement of technology and the perpetual progress of gaming graphics, remakes have become increasingly popular this generation, and one of the most out-of-the-blue and under-the-radar remakes was Shadow of the Beast. As The original Shadow of the Beast, released on the Amiga in the late 80s andwas only around 40 minutes long to begin with, there wasn’t much to expand upon in the first place, but this remake clocks in at less than three hours long with only six levels.
6 Longest: Days Gone
Days Gone might just be the most stereotypical survival game there has ever been, as it takes place in a post-apocalyptic Oregon where NPC’s are turning into zombies and the protagonist is a denim clad Mad Max type biker. Oh, and his wife was mysteriously killed for good measure.
Fully completing Days Gone could take players up to 90 hours, and even a gamer who isn’t a completionist could spend an easy 40 hours on the game. Though it might be long in the tooth without much variety in gameplay, Days Gone is regarded as having one of the best video game stories in 2019.
5 Shortest: Erica
In Erica, players make there own decisions and every choice they make has consequences. It is immersive as hell and it looks like a movie, but with a play through of just two and half hours, it really is more like an interactive film than a video game. Though it’s short, there is a huge replay-ability factor with Erica because there are so many different decisions the player can make, which leads to severely different outcomes.
4 Longest: Nioh 2
Nioh 2 is another game that is unforgiving towards players, and the reason why it can take over 100 hours to 100% complete the game might have something to do with constantly dying. With similarities to Bloodborne not just in its gameplay and combat, Nioh 2 is another game that is a tough but satisfying play through. And there are tons of fun secrets and hidden details, many of which players still haven’t discovered yet.
3 Shortest: The Inpatient
Survival horror games have a tendency to be short, as overdoing the same horror trope over and over might saturate how scary the game is. VR games are also commonly shorter than the average video game, mostly to keep gamers from getting motion sickness. As The Inpatient is both a survival horror and a VR game, it almost makes sense that it clocks in at just three hours long, and it was also the reason why it was one of the most anticipated games of 2018. Being a prequel to the more popular Until Dawn, The Inpatient unsurprisingly packs in a lot of frights in its short play through time.
2 Longest: Gran Turismo Sport
Racing games can rack up dozens of hours of players’ due to being endlessly replayable, but the replay-ability doesn’t factor in to why gamers have spent hundreds of hours playing Gran Turismo Sport. Love it or hate it, Gran Turismo Sport is one of the most realistic racing games there is on the PlayStation, and in reality, racing isn’t easy. There almost aren’t enough hours in the day, days in the week, or weeks in the month to complete GTS, as it can take a casual gamer 200 hours!
1 Shortest: P.T.
P.T. was originally dubbed as a very long teaser for a new Silent Hill game that was a meeting of the minds between Hideo Kojima and the celebrated filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (known for Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy). However, the game was subsequently cancelled and P.T. is all that exists of what could have been a magnificent reboot of the Silent Hill franchise. P.T. Is now seen as a full game, and though it only lasts for two hours, it is extraordinary, terrifying, and fun all at the same time.
