All inFAMOUS Games in Order (And What Runs on PS5)

Sucker Punch made five inFAMOUS games between 2009 and 2014, and the split that decides what you can actually play is not the release order. It is the console generation. Three are PS3 titles, two are PS4 titles, and that line is the whole story for anyone holding a PS5 in 2026.

Play them in release order, because release order and story order barely differ. Below: a straight answer on the PS3 problem, what the two karma playthroughs cost you in hours, and the cheapest way to own the parts worth owning. Live prices and price history for every entry sit on the inFAMOUS series page.

inFAMOUS Games in Release Order

That is the complete list. Five games, no mobile spin-offs, no remaster of the PS3 trilogy. Sucker Punch moved on to Ghost of Tsushima after First Light and the series has been dormant since. Story lengths above are typical main-story times reported by players, not padded 100% runs.

The first two games follow Cole MacGrath in Empire City and New Marais. Second Son jumps forward seven years to a new protagonist, Delsin Rowe, in Seattle. First Light is a prequel focused on Abigail "Fetch" Walker, one of Second Son's supporting characters.

inFAMOUS Games in Chronological (Story) Order

Release order and story order are almost identical. There is exactly one swap.

1. inFAMOUS: Cole gains his powers in the Empire City blast.
2. inFAMOUS 2: direct continuation, New Marais, the Beast.
3. inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood: a side story told as a tall tale by Zeke, set during inFAMOUS 2 and explicitly non-canon. Slot it anywhere after you have finished inFAMOUS 2.
4. inFAMOUS First Light: Fetch's origin, set before Second Son.
5. inFAMOUS Second Son: Delsin's story, seven years after inFAMOUS 2.

So the only difference from release order is that First Light comes before Second Son in the story, even though it launched five months later. Both orders work and neither spoils the other badly. Second Son first makes Fetch's backstory land as a flashback with context; First Light first means you meet her already knowing what she went through.

The one order that genuinely matters is inFAMOUS before inFAMOUS 2. The sequel picks up Cole's story mid-sentence and its ending only carries weight if you played the first game.

Start With Second Son If You Only Want One

If you own a PS5 and you are only ever going to play one inFAMOUS game, play Second Son. Three reasons, in order of how much they matter:

1. It works today with no workarounds. It is a PS4 title, so it downloads and runs on a PS5 like any other game. Every other reason is secondary to that one.
2. It is a clean entry point by design. Second Son opens a new arc with a new protagonist seven years after inFAMOUS 2. Sucker Punch wrote it for people who had never touched a PS3, and it explains its own world from scratch.
3. It aged the best. It was one of the PS4's early showpieces and the smoke, neon and video traversal powers still look sharp. The first two games control like 2009 and 2011 games, because they are.

Second Son's karma writing is thinner than inFAMOUS 2's. That is a fair criticism and it still does not outweigh being able to press play.

Does the Story of 1 and 2 Matter Before Second Son?

No, not for following the plot. Second Son gives you everything it needs you to know in its opening hour: new character, new city, new antagonist, fresh conflict. What you lose without the PS3 games is texture, not comprehension.

• The world state. Second Son takes place after inFAMOUS 2's ending, and that ending was drastic. The reason superpowered people are hunted in Delsin's Seattle traces back to what Cole did. You will understand the setting either way, but the weight of it is inherited.
• A handful of nods. Cole and the first two games are referenced rather than revisited. If you have not played them, those references read as background lore and nothing more.
• The best version of the karma idea. inFAMOUS 2 pushed the good and evil split hardest, with two rival supporting characters pulling in opposite directions and an ending that commits.

Verdict: treat inFAMOUS 1 and 2 as optional prequels, not prerequisites. If you can play them, play them first. If you cannot, start Second Son and read a plot summary of inFAMOUS 2's ending afterwards if you get curious.

Which inFAMOUS Games Can You Play on PS5 in 2026?

Second Son and First Light: yes. They are PS4 titles, and PS5 runs PS4 games through backwards compatibility. Buy them digitally and they install and play with no extra steps.

inFAMOUS, inFAMOUS 2 and Festival of Blood: no, not natively. PS5 does not run PS3 discs or PS3 digital titles, and the trilogy was never remastered, so there is no PS4 or PS5 version to fall back on. Here are the actual routes and the trade-off of each.

On the streaming route: Premium is the tier that carries streamed PS3 titles, and inFAMOUS entries have appeared there. The catalogue rotates by design, so never buy a year of Premium assuming a specific PS3 game will be there. Check what is currently listed on the PS Plus Premium page, then use the PS Plus calculator to see whether the tier pays for itself against everything else you would buy anyway.

A PS5-only player realistically gets two of the five games. They happen to be the two best-looking ones.

The One Thing Buyers Get Wrong

Both "small" inFAMOUS games look like DLC and neither is. That single misunderstanding causes most of the wasted money in this series.

inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood is standalone. It was sold as a small download in 2011 and does not need inFAMOUS 2 to run, despite reusing New Marais as its map. It is a two-to-three hour vampire story set on Pyre Night, deliberately outside the canon.

inFAMOUS First Light is also standalone. You do not need Second Son to buy, install or finish it. It has its own trophy list, its own platinum, and a combat arena mode Second Son does not have.

The trap runs both ways. Some buyers skip First Light assuming it needs Second Son. Others buy a Second Son bundle for the "DLC" they already own. Read the SKU contents before you check out, because Second Son shipped as a plain edition, a Special Edition, and several bundles that fold in First Light. Bundles are not automatically cheaper. An old bundle SKU frequently sits above the combined price of the two games bought individually once both are discounted.

Cheapest Way to Own the Series

There is no complete-series bundle, so "the whole series" is three separate purchases: the PS4 pair, the PS3 pair, and Festival of Blood.

• Target the PS4 pair. Both fall hard in seasonal sales, and First Light is the cheaper of the two by a wide margin at list price. If a Second Son bundle including First Light is discounted below the two separate discounted prices, take it. Otherwise buy them separately and wait for the deeper individual cut.
• Buy in a sale. Decade-old first-party PS4 titles get cut repeatedly across the year: Spring Sale, Days of Play around June, the Mid-Year or Summer Sale, Halloween, Black Friday and the Festive Sale. Track them on PS Store sales and the PS5 games on sale feed.
• Check the all-time low first. A 50% cut looks good until you see the game hit 75% twice before. Every entry has full price history on the series page.
• Check other regions if your account allows it. PlatPrices tracks the PS Store across 70+ regions, and the global deals feed shows where a title is currently cheapest. Region rules and payment methods still apply.
• Do not buy a PS Plus tier just for the PS3 games. If the streamed entries are listed and working, treat them as a bonus on a subscription you already wanted.

The Karma System and What It Costs You in Trophies

inFAMOUS built its identity on the good and evil karma split. Every major choice pushes you toward Hero or Infamous, powers change with the side you commit to, and the two branches lock each other out within a single save.

For trophy hunters that means one thing: the platinums for inFAMOUS, inFAMOUS 2 and Second Son all need two full playthroughs, one good and one evil. There is no chapter select trick and no late save scum that fixes it. Karma-tier trophies exist on both sides, karma is a one-way commitment per save, and the tiers build gradually across the campaign rather than at a single choice point. Here is what that does to the time investment.

Read that table as a shape rather than a promise. The pattern is that each karma game costs you roughly double its story length plus collectible cleanup, which is how a ten-hour campaign becomes a twenty-five-hour platinum. Second Son is the fastest of the three because the city is smaller, traversal is quicker, and the second run flies once you know the mission flow.

The efficient route is well established. Run the good playthrough first on a low difficulty to learn the map and the missions, then do the evil playthrough on the hardest difficulty so any difficulty-based trophy falls in the same run. In Second Son that second run is Expert, and evil-on-Expert is the standard plan. Sweep collectibles on whichever run you enjoy more, since none carry a karma requirement.

The two outliers:

• First Light has no karma system. Its platinum is one playthrough plus the combat arena challenges, and difficulty gates nothing, so you can play the story on Easy. The arena is the real work: story and collectibles run around five hours, and the arena scoring challenges can add as much again depending on how quickly the tiers click.
• Festival of Blood has no platinum. It is a 14-trophy list with no platinum at the top, normal for a small standalone of that era. It is a completion, not a platinum, so it adds nothing to a platinum count.

None of these are brutal platinums. The doubled playthrough on the three karma games makes them time-gated rather than skill-gated. For faster completions to slot around them, the quick and easy platinum list filters for games where one run is enough.

The same breakdown exists for God of War games in order and The Last of Us games in order, both series where the remaster question is messier than it is here.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many inFAMOUS games are there?

There are five: inFAMOUS (2009), inFAMOUS 2 (2011), inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood (2011), inFAMOUS Second Son (2014) and inFAMOUS First Light (2014). The first three are PS3 titles, the last two are PS4. Festival of Blood and First Light are both standalone releases that do not require the game they spun off from.

What order should I play the inFAMOUS games in?

Release order works perfectly. Play inFAMOUS, then inFAMOUS 2, then Second Son. Festival of Blood is a non-canon Halloween side story you can slot in after inFAMOUS 2, and First Light is a prequel to Second Son that works either just before or just after it. The only genuine requirement is playing inFAMOUS before inFAMOUS 2, since the sequel continues Cole MacGrath's story directly.

Can you play inFAMOUS on PS5?

Partly. Second Son and First Light are PS4 games and run on PS5 through backwards compatibility. The three PS3 entries are not natively playable on PS5 and were never remastered, so your options are PS Plus Premium cloud streaming where it is offered, or original PS3 hardware. The streaming catalogue rotates, so check the live listing before subscribing for that reason alone.

Which inFAMOUS game should I start with if I only play one?

Second Son. It is a PS4 game, so it installs and runs on a PS5 with no workarounds, it opens a fresh story with a new protagonist rather than continuing Cole's, and it is the best-looking and best-controlling entry in the series. Nothing in it requires knowledge of the first two games.

Do I need Second Son to play inFAMOUS First Light?

No. First Light is fully standalone, with its own trophy list and its own platinum. It covers Fetch's backstory before the events of Second Son, and you can buy and finish it without ever owning Second Son.

Do inFAMOUS platinums need two playthroughs?

Yes, for inFAMOUS, inFAMOUS 2 and Second Son. All three have karma trophies on both the hero and infamous paths, and karma locks you into one branch per save. Budget roughly double each game's story length as a result. First Light has no karma system, so its platinum is a single run plus the arena challenges. Festival of Blood has no platinum at all.

Two of the five inFAMOUS games are a click away on a PS5 and the other three need a plan. Check the current prices and all-time lows for the whole series on the inFAMOUS series page before you buy, because Second Son and First Light both drop hard in the seasonal PS Store sales.