The Last of Us keeps clicking up the most popular PS5, PS4 games chart

The Last of Us is currently dominating the PS5 and PS4's most popular games chart for yet another week as the HBO show continues to fuel the games. God of War is dropping off now, along with Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order on PS Plus.

Here we go again! The popularity of The Last of Us series continues as the HBO show dominates TV, while last month's most popular PS Plus game finally slips away. All of them deserve a spot in the best PS4 games, making this an incredibly high-quality week of gaming for most players.

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At the very top, where you can see Call of Duty, Fortnite, and GTA, things are very static right now. We imagine it won't be broken too heavily, though Hogwarts Legacy seems set to shuffle the big boys away from the top for a bit. So instead of our leading story this week, let's return to the interesting continued rise of The Last of Us. After Episode 4 of the HBO show, we are seeing engagement numbers for both games rise as audience size grows week-on-week. For the combined PS4 and PS5 versions of the first game that you see in the chart as Part 1, we have seen a rise by one place to 13th with a massive 21% rise in the week-on-week player count.

The Last of Us Part I is the PS5 version and individually it would place 45th — outside of the range of our chart. The Last of Us Remastered on PS4 would place at 19th if placed individually — a fantastic finish. The PS4 version has a player count advantage of 3:1 on PS5. Don't make the mistake of thinking that that means the PS5 version is performing poorly. That release is still being sold at a relatively high price, whereas the PS4 version is included in the PS Plus Essential Games Collection until June this year. The PS4 version is much more accessible, but Part 1 is shaping up well.

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Our other mildly big story is that Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order has slipped away four places to 21st. Interestingly, it hasn't actually lost players. It has pretty much dead on the exact same player count as last week, it's just that the games that have overtaken it really went hard last week: Madden, Dead by Daylight, and Fall Guys. As a PS Plus game reaching the end of its time as part of the Essential monthly games, this is a fantastic performance.

Two small bits of news elsewhere — the first bit of is that Forspoken rests in 11th, up 16 places from last week. This massive increase is almost surprising given the tepid critical response. Since last week, it has had a 192% increase in player count, launching it up the chart into 11th. That is a massive haul of players it has managed to attract over the course of a week — especially for a PS5-only game.

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Place that in contrast to Dead Space, which has slipped eight spots to 41st position. It's not looking great for the critically well-received remaster of the PS3 horror classic, but we think this might have legs. It's just not that it has been well received and will have a bit of word of mouth, it's that prices will fall and now everyone will want to pick it up at some point. A strange week for these two games, then!

That wraps up the analysis for the week. Here are the most popular PS5 and PS4 games for the week ending February 5th, 2023.

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

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.