PlayStation exclusives on PC: which ports are worth it

For six years, the answer to "will this come to PC?" was "yes, eventually". That era is over. PlayStation exclusives on PC are now a closed set — a finite list of ports you can buy today, with almost nothing queued behind them.

Bloomberg reported the reversal in March 2026, and in May its Jason Schreier reported from a PlayStation Studios meeting that the policy applies to narrative single-player games specifically. Existing ports stay on sale. New ones, for the games most people were waiting on, are not coming. That turns this from a waiting list into a shopping list, and it changes which of these are actually worth your money.

Why the list of PlayStation exclusives on PC stopped growing

The carve-out is narrower than the headlines suggested. What is off the table is Sony's first-party story games: Ghost of Yotei, Saros and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet have all been named as staying on PlayStation hardware. What is not off the table is multiplayer. Schreier's reporting explicitly leaves room for co-op and live-service titles, which is why Helldivers 2 is on Steam and why more like it can follow.

Games from external studios that Sony merely publishes are also unaffected — Death Stranding 2: On the Beach reached PC in March 2026, from Kojima Productions rather than a Sony-owned team.

Sony has not issued a formal statement of the policy. What follows is what you can actually buy, and how well each one was converted.

The Nixxes tier sets the standard

Nixxes Software, which Sony bought in 2021, handled most of the best conversions, and the pattern is consistent enough to shop by. Its ports ship the full upscaler set — DLSS, FSR and XeSS, usually with DLAA — plus 21:9, 32:9 and 48:9 ultrawide, DualSense features over a cable, and NVIDIA Reflex.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT both sit at Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam as of today, which is the highest standing any of these ports hold. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 are all Very Positive.

Rift Apart was built around the PS5's SSD and is one of the few ports where PC hardware genuinely improves the trick. (Official Steam screenshot)

If you want the shortest possible rule: a Nixxes port is a safe purchase. The studio's PC feature lists are unusually thorough, and the Steam standings bear that out.

Where the ports get patchier

Two break the pattern. Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition is a Nixxes conversion with the full feature list, yet it sits at Mostly Positive — a clear notch below its stablemates. Returnal, converted by Climax Studios, is also Mostly Positive, and it is the most demanding game on this list relative to how it looks.

Neither is a bad game. Both are games where you should read recent reviews for your own hardware rather than assuming the port is as clean as the Spider-Man ones. On a mid-range machine, Returnal in particular is the one most likely to disappoint.

Forbidden West is the odd one out among the Nixxes conversions — same feature set, noticeably cooler reception. (Official Steam screenshot)

The Naughty Dog line

The Last of Us Part I arrived in March 2023 via Iron Galaxy and had a famously rough start. It has since been patched into a Very Positive standing, which is the useful fact: the version you would buy today is not the version people complained about.

The Last of Us Part II Remastered followed in April 2025 with Nixxes and Iron Galaxy both credited, and it launched in better shape. UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection is the third, and the thinnest technically — its PC feature list is short next to anything Nixxes shipped later — but it is still Very Positive and it is two complete Uncharted games.

The Part II Remastered PC launch trailer, from Naughty Dog's own channel rather than a mirror.

Part II Remastered also carries the No Return roguelike mode, which is the closest this list gets to a game you replay. (Official Steam screenshot)

Santa Monica's two

God of War came to PC in January 2022 and God of War Ragnarök in September 2024, both in partnership with Jetpack Interactive. The gap between them shows: the 2018 game's PC feature list is modest — DLSS and 21:9 — while Ragnarök ships DLSS, FSR, XeSS, ultrawide up to 32:9, DualSense support and Reflex, and bundles the Valhalla roguelite epilogue at no extra cost.

Both are Very Positive. If you are starting here, start with the 2018 game; we have written separately on whether God of War holds up on PC and on how it compares to The Last of Us if you only intend to play one Sony epic.

The Ragnarök PC launch trailer, from PlayStation's official channel.

The awkward ones

Days Gone was the first of these ports, back in May 2021, and it remains Very Positive despite a lukewarm console reception — PC is arguably where it found its audience. Until Dawn, rebuilt by Ballistic Moon and released in October 2024, is also Very Positive now. Sackboy: A Big Adventure is the outlier nobody talks about and a genuinely good local co-op platformer.

These three are where the value is. They are the oldest, the least fashionable, and the ones that discount hardest.

Days Gone opened the whole programme in 2021 and is still the cheapest way into it. (Official Steam screenshot)

The PSN account question, answered properly

Sony's requirement that PC players link a PlayStation Network account caused enough anger in 2024 that it is now widely assumed to apply to everything. It does not, and the difference is easy to check before you buy.

Steam flags it as a "Requires 3rd-Party Account" notice on the store page. As of today it appears on Helldivers 2, on Until Dawn, and on Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT — where it is scoped to online multiplayer, so Jin's single-player campaign is unaffected.

It does not appear on God of War Ragnarök, Spider-Man 2, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Horizon Forbidden West, Rift Apart, God of War or Days Gone. If your objection is to the account link rather than to the games, the single-player catalogue is almost entirely clear of it — and the notice is on the Steam page either way, so you never have to guess.

How to buy a closed set

A finished catalogue behaves differently from a live one. Nothing here is going to be made scarce, no publisher is protecting a launch window, and every one of these games is now old enough to hit a deep discount on a predictable cycle. The pressure to buy at full price has gone entirely.

So treat the whole list as a wishlist rather than a queue. Prices move week to week and we will not quote them here for that reason — open the game page for the live figure and the recent history. Our price-tracking guide covers the timing properly.

Spider-Man 2 is the most recent of the big Nixxes conversions and the last of its kind for the foreseeable future. (Official Steam screenshot)

The bottom line

Buy the Nixxes ports without hesitating — Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man Remastered are the two best-regarded conversions Sony has shipped, and Rift Apart, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and Spider-Man 2 are close behind. Take God of War and Ragnarök next; they are the strongest pair of games here even if the older port is technically plainer.

Approach Returnal and Horizon Forbidden West with a check of your own hardware first. And do not rush any of it. The one advantage of Sony closing the door is that nothing on this side of it is going anywhere — these are permanent, discountable, finished products, and patience costs you nothing. If you want a verdict on the newest and last of them, we looked at whether Ghost of Tsushima is worth it on PC in detail, and our single-player picks for 2026 cover what else deserves the same money.