Best Multiplayer RPG PS5 Games

Final Fantasy XIV is the closest thing I have found to the RuneScape rush that hooked me on RPGs at fourteen, just with voice chat and raid mechanics that actually reward coordination. The free trial runs deep enough to test with a friend before anyone commits to a subscription. I still remember rounding up three people just to clear our first eight-man raid together, and the job system, where one character eventually learns every role, means nobody gets stuck healing forever. Subscription fatigue is real. Paying monthly on top of a console you already own is a genuine ask. Even so, this remains the definitive multiplayer RPG home on PS5, not just the biggest one.

Monster Hunter Wilds is one of my friend group's favorite games right now, and I get why. There is no traditional leveling bar here. Progression comes through the gear you craft off the monsters you just fought, and that simplicity is the whole hook: kill a thing, build better armor from its parts, hunt something bigger. Four players can drop into a hunt with four different weapon types, so the session changes shape depending on who shows up. Fair warning, the first few hunts are humbling while you learn a weapon's timing. Once it clicks, this is one of the cleanest co-op loops on PS5. No subscription, no live-service calendar, just hunts.

I have played every Baldur's Gate game going back to the original two, and this is the best by a wide margin. Co-op actually improves on the solo campaign, because splitting party members between real people means dialogue choices contradict each other mid-conversation in ways AI companions never would. My group ran this over several months, one or two sessions a week. Worth it, every time. It ranks third and not first for one honest reason: this is not a drop-in game. You need three friends willing to commit to a hundred-hour campaign, and matching four adult schedules is its own boss fight. If you have that group, nothing else here touches it for role-playing depth.

I have played every Diablo game, and for me this series has always been a multiplayer one first. Back in university a friend in my building and I hacked through Diablo III most weekends, usually with a couple of beers involved. That habit carried into Diablo IV. I did not finish the campaign solo. I bounced off it around Act 3 and only went back once a friend asked to run it together, and the story suddenly clicked with someone else there to share it. Five classes give every player something to compare after a session, and seasons keep giving you a reason to log back in. It runs cleanly on PS5 and never fights the controller.

Path of Exile 2 asks more of you than anything else on this list, and it does not apologize for it. The passive skill tree looks like a subway map for a city that does not exist. Free to play, genuinely so. No paywalled power, just cosmetics, worth noting given how many live-service RPGs stack the deck. Playing with a party online, someone always ends up the de facto expert explaining the trading economy to everyone else, and that person becomes essential fast. I do not have the hours some of my friends put into this game, and it shows every time we compare gear. If your group has one person willing to do the theorycrafting, this is one of the deepest loot chases on PS5.

Elder Scrolls Online is the MMO I recommend to people who bounced off Final Fantasy XIV's subscription wall but still want that guild-driven, quest-heavy sprawl. Buy the base game once and there is a genuinely free path through most of it, DLC aside. Wander into a side quest and it usually pays off with actual writing instead of filler text, which matters to me since fantasy worlds live or die on whether the lore feels earned. Combat trails a step behind FFXIV's job system. It shows its age in places. A guild of five people can still spend a year here without running out of things to do together.

Remnant II is what I point to when someone wants co-op RPG without the MMO commitment. Three players, distinct archetypes, procedurally shuffled worlds so a repeat run through the same area never feels identical to the last one. My group ran this with headsets on, calling out add spawns during boss fights the same way we do in Helldivers 2, and that coordination habit transferred straight over. Builds come from archetype combos rather than a sprawling skill tree, which makes it easy to onboard a friend who has never touched an RPG with real character progression. The bosses are the real test. A few of them will wreck an uncoordinated team fast.

Nioh 2 is brutal, and punishing difficulty for its own sake usually loses me fast. This one is different because co-op missions let a stronger player carry a weaker one through fights that would otherwise end a solo run in frustration. The loot system is dense even by soulslike standards, full gear sets with rolled stats stacked on top of weapon variety, and building a character here takes real investment. I played a handful of missions with a friend who had never touched a Souls game, and the gap between his solo attempts and our co-op runs was night and day. Not a pick-up-and-play RPG. Give it a few sessions before deciding if the systems are for you.

Warframe has been free to play for over a decade and keeps adding systems instead of running out of ideas. I went in wary, the way I go into most live-service games, and came out surprised at how much RPG sits under the sci-fi surface: frame builds, mod slots, a skill tree wide enough to lose an evening in. Squad runs of four move fast. Missions rarely run past twenty minutes, which fits a weeknight far better than most MMOs on this list. The currency and system overload at the start is real, and it took a more experienced friend explaining things before it clicked for me. Once it does, this is one of the most replayable co-op grinds on PS5, live-service baggage and all.

Elden Ring is a masterpiece, and I mean that in the way I rarely mean it here. The open world is the best argument for the genre I have played since Horizon, quiet ruins and terrifying things over the next hill, and two people running different loadouts will approach the same boss in completely different ways. The multiplayer is the weak link here. You place a summon sign, wait for someone to read it, hope your connection holds. Compare that to sitting down with a friend in Remnant II and pressing start together, and the gap is obvious. It ranks tenth for exactly that reason: incredible RPG, frustrating multiplayer. If your group is patient with the friction, the payoff still lands.