Dead Space and Forspoken debut on most played PS5, PS4 games chart

Dead Space and Forspoken are making their PS5 debut on the most popular PlayStation games chart, while TLOU continues to rise. Meanwhile, Call of Duty, Fortnite, and FIFA continue to dominate the top video games.

Dead Space and Forspoken are now out and making enough positive waves for us to think about putting it on our best PS5 games list. While they haven't rocked to stratospheric levels yet, with only a few days on the market each there is no need to be scared of the results quite yet.

Since the original publication, we have compiled player numbers for Forspoken. The error was due to various conflating demo and product SKUs.

Dead Space makes it's debut on PS5 with scary position

The Dead Space PS5 reviews are in and glowing about everything except the new voice work — but EA's remake only debuts at 33rd on our chart. Let's start out by saying it has only had three days on the market before the chart was compiled, so the number should shoot up next week. However, that 32nd isn't secure as it finished with 0.9% more than Dragon Ball FighterZ in 33rd. Above it in 31st rests Horizon Forbidden West with 14% more players — that is a significant margin from a debut remaster of a horror classic compared to a 9-month-old game. We'll have to check again next week before we can really draw conclusions.

Forspoken, given its timid critical reception even in our more positive Forspoken review, has probably achieved higher results than expected. Sitting six places above Dead Space in 27th, Square Enix's latest RPG is perhaps picking up more traffic than expected over its few days on the market. However, it is important to be aware that we have untangled the demo players from the 'real game' players for this final position — our devs are reporting that more people are playing the demo version than the actual game.

This means you should take this number and position as people who are playing a purchased, full version of Forspoken and we will bring you more comprehensive numbers next week. However, our initial raw stats indicate that the demo alone would rank at fourth on the chart if it was included. That's right, fourth — did you just see that with your freaking eyes?

The Last of Us Part 1

Then we have our high-flying The Last of Us Part I rising one place to 14th. Let's all say the reason it's doing so well together now: "The Last of Us on HBO!" That's right. As we covered last week, pretty much anything with the IP name in is flying thanks to a surge of interest generated by the show, just look at The Last of Us Part II rising to 28th.

However, it's really important to clarify two things. Firstly, active player numbers are down across the board this week, so The Last of Us has seen a week-on-week player count decrease of 18.7%. Secondly, this is a combined number for TLOU P1 on PS5 and TLOU Remastered. This is just to help us gauge general TLOU interest, but individually the PS4 version would place in 20th — between Dead by Daylight and Back 4 Blood — while the PS5 game would place between Warframe and Brawlhalla in 35th.

Forspoken enters the chart

The rest of the chart is otherwise fairly uneventful until you take a look at the re-entering trio of titles. Warframe is back again with a 36th place finish with Battlefield 2048 hunting it down in 38th. We have Cyberpunk 2077 just behind in 39th.These are the kind of games that have real low-grade sticking power, for better or worse.

That wraps up our analysis of the gaming world on PlayStation. Did you expect a higher debut for Dead Space? Watching The Last of Us on HBO? Let us know in the comments and here is the chart of the most popular games on PS5 and PS4 for the week ending January 29th, 2023.

Most popular PlayStation games (for the week ending January 29th, 2023)

Position	Game	Publisher	Last week
1	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II	Activision	1
2	Fortnite	Epic Games	2
3	FIFA 23	Electronic Arts	3
4	Grand Theft Auto V	Rockstar Games	4
5	Rocket League	Psyonix	5
6	Overwatch 2	Blizzard Entertainment	6
7	Apex Legends	Electronic Arts	9
8	God of War Ragnarök	Sony Interactive Entertainment	8
9	Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition	Mojang Studios	7
10	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Ubisoft	10
11	NBA 2K23	2K Sports	11
12	Genshin Impact	Cognosphere	13
13	Destiny 2	Bungie	12
14	The Last of Us Part I	Sony Interactive Entertainment	15
15	Elden Ring	Bandai Namco Entertainment	14
16	FIFA 22	Electronic Arts	17
17	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Electronic Arts	16
18	Fall Guys	Epic Games	18
19	Madden NFL 23	Electronic Arts	20
20	Dead by Daylight	Behaviour Interactive	22
21	Back 4 Blood	Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment	19
22	Red Dead Redemption 2	Rockstar Games	21
23	WWE 2K22	2K Games	25
24	Gran Turismo 7	Sony Interactive Entertainment	23
25	Ghost of Tsushima	Sony Interactive Entertainment	26
26	Fallout 76	Bethesda Softworks	27
27	Forspoken	Square Enix	-
28	Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition	Capcom Entertainment	24
29	The Last of Us Part II	Sony Interactive Entertainment	29
30	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Activision	28
31	EA SPORTS UFC 4	Electronic Arts	30
32	Horizon Forbidden West	Sony Interactive Entertainment	32
33	Dead Space	Electronic Arts	-
34	Dragon Ball FighterZ	Bandai Namco Entertainment	31
35	Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales	Sony Interactive Entertainment	33
36	Warframe	Digital Extremes	RE
37	Brawlhalla	Blue Mammoth Games	38
38	Battlefield 2042	Electronic Arts	RE
39	Cyberpunk 2077	CD Projekt	RE
40	Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War	Activision	37

Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 3 million active PlayStation accounts. Chart information is copyright GameInsights.

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Written by Kes Eylers-Stephenson

Editor Kes is our resident expert in PlayStation and other gaming news. He writes about exclusives like The Last of Us and Horizon, PS Plus news, and his favourite games — The Witcher, Assassin’s Creed, and God of War — before an evening swim.