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The best PS4 and PS5 games for kids & families

Explore a rundown of some of the best family-friendly titles playable now on PS4 and PS5. Best of all, the majority support multiple players on one console.

Family friendly sports and racing games

Be a good sport

Build your ultimate fantasy team, race high-performance cars or pull-off gravity-defying skateboard tricks.

EA Sports™ FC 24

With thousands of licensed players and hundreds of teams, EA Sports FC delivers realistic soccer action to your PlayStation 5.

  • Play as your favorite countries and clubs or create your own squad of superstars across a range of game modes including Ultimate Team.
  • The game’s HyperMotionV technology uses data from real matches to create lifelike player movement, and the Frostbite Engine delivers incredible matchday detail.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-22 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Gameplay reveal trailer
Announce trailer

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2

Drop back into the most iconic skateboarding games of all time, rebuilt in crisp HD and featuring all the skaters, levels, tricks and tunes from the original PS1 releases.

  • These fully rebuilt versions of Pro Skater and Pro Skater 2 include all original game modes, head-to-head local multiplayer and competitive online options.
  • Expanded tricks improve your combo possibilities as you skate to classic tracks from the likes of Goldfinger and Rage Against the Machine. 

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 12 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Warehouse stunt trailer

Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turbocharged

Put a new spin on toy-to-life gaming with this arcade racer that lets you drive familiar Hot Wheels motors on a series of absurd and amazing tracks.

  • Unlock over 130 Hot Wheels vehicles, each with its own racing style, and upgrade them to become unbeatable.
  • Race around a back yard, a mini-golf course, a Wild West-themed village and more – and then create your own courses in Track Editor.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-12 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Gameplay trailer

Gran Turismo 7

The Real Driving Simulator has something for everyone, whether you’re a committed and competitive racer or a casual driver looking for easy-going thrills.

  • Pick from several game modes, including Arcade, GT Campaign, Simulation and Driving School. 
  • Collect over 420 cars and race them in solo play, local two-player competition, or against online rivals.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-20 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Announcement trailer
State of Play deep dive

LEGO® games

Big adventures with style

Enjoy cinematic thrills, open-world racing and survival adventures, recreated in LEGO's inimitable style.

LEGO® 2K Drive

Race over streets, seas and sand in dream rides made entirely from LEGO bricks in this colorful open world of quirky characters and bizarre challenges.

  • Build your own vehicles – for road, water and offroad – in the Garage, using easy-to-follow tutorials or by freestyling your brick creation however your imagination sees fit.
  • Explore and race solo, in local multiplayer or online with cross-platform play that supports up to five other minifigure friends.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-6 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Season 2 trailer

LEGO®  Fortnite

This free-to-play game, featuring Fortnite-themed LEGO minifigures, allows you to play in two very different ways.

  • Collect materials in the daytime to build a home base and survive against nighttime challenges – or play purely creatively with no threats.
  • Team up with friends to explore hidden areas in pursuit of rare resources and recruit non-player villagers to help you.

  • 1 player offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Gameplay trailer
Cinematic trailer

LEGO® Builder's Journey

This relaxing puzzler puts you in control of LEGO bricks to solve a series of beautifully presented challenges.

  • Experiment with pieces to find solutions to puzzles that form a surprisingly sweet story mode full of ups and downs.
  • Use Creative Mode to construct your own LEGO models - and then use Photo Mode to share them online.

  • 1 player offline

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Launch trailer

LEGO® Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Action from all nine Skywalker Saga films is presented in humorous LEGO brick fashion in this 3D puzzle-platformer that has a split-screen local two-player mode.

  • Play as a Jedi, Sith, Rebel, bounty hunter, droid or any one of hundreds of Star Wars characters drawn from across the galaxy.
  • Use brick-built versions of vehicles seen in the movies, and travel to locations taken straight from the big screen.

  • 1-2 players offline

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Family friendly action adventure games

Magic, mayhem and mischief

Take on grand adventures into lands unknown, discover colourful characters and foil evil villains, alone or with friends.

Sonic Superstars

Sonic finds himself far away from Green Hill Zone as this new platforming adventure takes him (and friends) to the mystical Northstar Islands.

  • Play the game’s entire campaign in co-op, with up to four players supported on split-screen. Choose to play as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles or Amy.
  • Battle Mode offers a selection of competitive minigames, ranging from a classic race to the shoot ‘em up-styled Zap Scrap.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
LEGO announcement trailer

Untitled Goose Game

This slapstick puzzle adventure sees players assume the role of a horrible goose causing havoc around an unsuspecting village.

  • Play solo or alongside a friend to upset the locals in chaotic co-op mode, planning pranks as a pair.
  • Ruin peoples’ days, make a terrible mess, and use the dedicated ‘honk’ button just because it’s there.

  • 1-2 players offline

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Anniversary trailer
Co-op trailer

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

PlayStation hero Sackboy takes center stage for this 3D platform adventure in which the land of Craftworld is threatened by the dastardly Vex, who aims to turn Sackboy’s home into a nightmarish eyesore.

  • Play with up to three other friends locally as Sackboy and his Knitted Knight allies in a frantic race against time.
  • Enjoy the whole adventure in local multiplayer, travelling across incredibly varied environments from snowy scenes to outer space, and take on dedicated co-op levels where only teamwork can win the day.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-4 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Accolades trailer
Story trailer

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Jump between dimensions and realities in this action-packed 3D platformer starring the spacefaring Lombax Ratchet, his robotic pal Clank and new playable character Rivet.

  • Use an outrageous arsenal of quirky weapons to bring a halt to an evil robotic emperor’s nefarious plans.
  • Zip over cityscapes, boost into combat and slip through rifts between dimensions using new physics-defying gadgets.

  • 1 player offline

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Extended gameplay demo

Creative games for kids

If you can imagine it, you can play it

Build, shape, collaborate and share in original game worlds where getting creative is the whole point.

Dragon Quest Builders 2

This block-building Japanese RPG features a charming single-player campaign and plenty of online multiplayer possibilities.

  • Create your own customizable builder and set off to revive a forsaken world alongside the mysterious Malroth.
  • Play with friends online to create amazing structures with unlimited building combinations.

  • 1 player offline, 2-4 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Co-op trailer

Minecraft

Build a world where the only limit is your own imagination, playing purely creatively or choose to survive against many dangers.

  • Explore mysterious lands unique to your own experience, collecting resources to protect yourself from monsters.
  • Play with friends online to share your adventures, or to build collaborative creations on a grand scale.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Disney Worlds of Adventure launch trailer

Chicory: A Colourful Tale

Paint a black-and-white world back into color in this charming adventure that uses gentle puzzles and exploration to move its story onward.

  • Paint to open new areas and solve puzzles using a magical brush that turns the world around you into a colorful canvas.
  • A second player can control a brush of their own, allowing for collaborative painting as the story unfolds. 

  • 1-2 players offline

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Launch trailer
Color the World trailer

Dreams

Made by the creators of LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway, Dreams is a remarkable digital playground of user-created experiences.

  • Create your own games using intuitive tools or enjoy many existing experiences, including the wooden train playset puzzler Tren, created by an imaginative community.
  • Go beyond games to craft animations, sculptures, movies, music and more - and then share your work online.

  • 1-4 players offline

  • Suitable for 12 year olds and over

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Release date trailer
Tren trailer

Family friendly party games

Get together for good times

Gather friends and family around the PlayStation for chaotic cook-offs, reimagined classics and to cut shapes to your favorite songs.

Gang Beasts

This exceptionally silly party game lets players loose on the streets (and rooftops, factories, skies and more) of Beef City, where they must fight to be the last one standing.

  • Grapple opponents using deliberately unusual controls, tossing gelatinous characters around the stages while avoiding hazards.
  • Customize your character and take them online to prove yourself as this meaty city’s most stubborn survivor.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Gameplay trailer
PlayStation Experience trailer

Overcooked! All You Can Eat

Dig into as much Overcooked as you like in this madcap cooking game that contains all levels from the first title, its sequel and DLC packs.

  • Work together to fulfil kitchen orders in environments where fires will break out, bits of your kitchen will come apart, and sometimes the floor will float away.
  • Assist mode allows players to slow timers and skip levels, to make sure fun never gives way to frustration.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-4 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Announcement trailer
Launch trailer

Monopoly Madness

Inspired by but quite unlike the classic boardgame, Monopoly Madness pits players against each other in an all-new way.

  • Roam the streets of Monopoly Town freely, collecting money, water and electricity, and gaining power-ups from the Community Chests.
  • Pick from 20 playable characters and explore four unique environments, each with their own levels and layouts.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-6 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Announcement trailer

Just Dance 2024 Edition

The classic dancing series continues to entertain (and exercise) fans with a new tracklist featuring BLACKPINK and Miley Cyrus, new universes and new characters to enjoy.

  • Dance along to 40 new songs from many different eras and genres – or subscribe to Just Dance+ to access 100s of tracks.
  • Take on Challenge mode to go head-to-head with friends and strangers alike on online leaderboards.

  • 1-6 offline players, 2-6 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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