Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur came out of nowhere and landed with enough weight to make several top-10 conversations look incomplete. The art direction is striking, the turn-based combat has a timing-based action layer that keeps fights from feeling passive, and the tone is genuinely dramatic without tipping into self-parody. It sits here rather than in the main ten because the list above it is dense with games that have longer track records and broader audiences. But this is one of the most interesting RPGs on PS5 right now, and if the aesthetic pulls you in, the substance is there to back it up.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the most exciting new RPG of 2025 and it probably belongs on a future version of this list at a higher rank once the community has spent more time with it on Deck. The turn-based combat has a real identity, the art direction is striking, and the party progression rewards the kind of long-session investment that suits an RPG. It sits here rather than in the top ten because it is a heavier production that works the hardware harder and the Deck playability is not quite as frictionless as the established picks. Give it time. This one is going to age well on the platform.