Games In Order

The Atelier series has run for nearly 30 years and 25-plus games, but it is not one long story. It is a stack of self-contained trilogies, and knowing which one to start with is the whole trick.

There are five inFAMOUS games, and the split that matters is not release order. It is PS3 versus PS4. Here is the full list in order, which entries a PS5 owner can actually play today, and what the karma system does to the platinum trophies.

There are three Outlast games plus one story DLC. Release order and story order are not the same thing, and the Whistleblower DLC and The Outlast Trials both sit at very different points in the timeline than their release dates suggest.

Only two Last of Us games exist. They have shipped across seven different PlayStation releases, and buying the wrong one is the classic mistake. Here is the release order, the story order, and exactly which version a PS5 owner should pick.

Need for Speed has no story continuity, so "chronological order" really means "which era should I start with". Here is the full release-order list, the five eras that define the series, and the short list of NFS games you can still buy on PS4 and PS5 today.

Eight mainline Hitman games across 25 years, and one modern trilogy that quietly merged into a single package. Here is the full release order, the story order, and exactly which SKU to buy so you do not pay twice for levels you already own.

There are six mainline Life is Strange games plus two side stories, and because one of them is a prequel, release order and story order genuinely differ. Here is both lists, which one a first-timer should follow, and what each PS Store bundle actually contains.

Eleven God of War releases carry the Kratos story, and two of them are simply called "God of War". Here is the full run in release order and in story order, plus which version to buy and what runs on a PS5 today.