The end of the year has rolled around, which means it’s time to sum up 2017 with the Game of the Year Awards. PlayStation LifeStyle is doing our year-end awards slightly different from previous years. We wanted to put more importance on the nomination for each award, so we limited each category to five games. That’s not many, especially in a year stacked with great titles. It took a lot of careful deliberation to come up with each list.
For best PlayStation exclusive, we wanted to keep the category truly exclusive to the console. This meant that it wasn’t just console exclusives, but to appear on this list, games also couldn’t be released on PC. Games like NieR: Automata were disqualified from this list for that reason. We found, however, that there were plenty of amazing PS4 exclusive games that you have to own Sony’s console to play. Persona 5 and its incredibly stylish attitude, Yakuza 0 with its occasionally bizarre, but altogether engrossing world, and the epic Horizon Zero Dawn were just a few that were up for consideration. Last week, we announced PlayStation LifeStyle’s nominees for the Best PlayStation Exclusive of 2017. Here’s a reminder of what got nominated:

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