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Twenty pages in our PS5 catalogue carry Steam's Post-apocalyptic tag and have at least one live offer today, 10 September. All twenty are here. Beside each name you get the same two things: the Steam verdict of the PC version, as a raw count rather than a percentage, and what the PS5 page is asking at this moment.
Steam does not collect reviews from console releases. Every verdict below belongs to the PC version of the same game, never to the PlayStation one. I am saying that once, up here, so you do not have to wonder about it twenty times.
The second warning costs money. On PS5 the smallest figure on a page is hardly ever a copy of the game, and on all twenty of these pages the cheapest offer of the lot is a shared account. Somebody made a PlayStation account, bought the game inside it, and now rents you the login. Nothing lands in your profile, there is no code to redeem, and the day the owner changes the password there is nobody left to complain to. Twelve of the twenty also carry a real PSN code or a disc. The other eight carry nothing else whatsoever.
What you are actually looking at on a PS5 page
Four kinds of offer share the same price list here, and they are not interchangeable. The shared account is the login described above; Difmark and GamesPSN supply most of them. A PSN code is the one you redeem yourself, in your own account, and it behaves like any normal purchase, though you have to watch the region because a European account will not take an American code. A disc from Amazon, Media Markt, PCcomponentes or Fnac is yours, has no region to match and can be sold on when you are done with it. And then there is the PlayStation Store, which is usually Sony charging full retail and, on one page here, the cheapest thing available.
Prices are the ones our pages show with the discount already applied, and they move. If a figure below has slipped by a euro by the time you read it, the page is right and I am out of date.
Seven pages where the disc costs less than the download
The Last of Us Part 1 opens with the widest gap of the twenty in plain cash. Media Markt ES has the disc at €39.90 while the PlayStation Store still asks €79.99 for the download of the same remake. Forty euros, for a box you keep. Below both sits a GamesPSN shared account at €12.58, the cheapest number on the page and the least of a purchase. Very Positive on Steam, 55,350 of 65,118.
Death Stranding Director's Cut does the same thing more quietly: the Amazon DE disc is €27.96 against €49.99 in the PlayStation Store. Difmark's shared account is €8.14, which is the kind of price that makes people forget what they are buying. Very Positive, 45,566 of 49,528.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered repeats it: Amazon DE disc €29.60, PlayStation Store €49.99, GamesPSN shared account €16.36. Very Positive, 5,737 of 6,830, which is a modest sample next to the names around it, so read the verdict as a hint rather than a mandate.
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition keeps the pattern: PCcomponentes has the disc at €48.90 and Sony asks €69.99. The GamesPSN account is €29.21, and that is the most expensive shared account on the entire list, which tells you how little the borrowed-login market discounts a game people still actively want. Very Positive, 17,562 of 20,186.
Cronos: The New Dawn is the newest heavyweight here and the disc has already undercut the download: Amazon ES €29.16 against €59.99 in the PlayStation Store, under half price for the physical copy. The GamesPSN account is €24.34, five euros under the disc. Five euros is not enough to hand your access to a stranger. Very Positive, 6,686 of 7,685.
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead has the cheapest disc of the twenty, €17.99 on Amazon DE, against €29.99 in the PlayStation Store. Difmark's shared account is €8.31. Mostly Positive, 1,718 of 2,321, and I would treat two thousand reviews as a neighbourhood rather than a verdict.
Tides of Tomorrow is the one almost nobody has played: Very Positive with 447 of 520, which is barely a sample and not something to lean on. The Fnac ES disc is €21.95, the PlayStation Store €23.99 and Difmark's shared account €20.14. Under two euros between somebody else's password and a box in your hands.
Two games Sony does not sell, and one Deluxe that spoils the comparison
Dead Island 2 has no PlayStation Store entry at all. The official download is simply not on offer, so the page comes down to a G2A shared account at €7.68 and the PCcomponentes Day One disc at €62.14. Fifty-four euros between the two, and that distance is the size of the risk you are being asked to take. Mostly Positive, 17,872 of 23,210.
Remnant 2 is in the same position and handles it far better. Sony does not list it either, Difmark's shared account is €6.88, and PCcomponentes has the disc at €29.10. Twenty-nine euros for a copy that stays yours, on a game with 37,878 Very Positive reviews out of 46,193. Of the pages with no official download, this is the easy one.
Pacific Drive needs an asterisk. The Amazon DE disc is €35.08 and the PlayStation Store is €29.99, so the box looks beaten, except the disc is the Deluxe and the download is the standard game. Two different products, so those five euros mean nothing by themselves. Difmark's shared account is €16.79. Very Positive, 17,835 of 21,488.
The only two resale codes in the article, and only one is worth having
Stellar Blade holds the best code of the twenty by a distance: a Gamivo PSN code at €31.72 against €79.99 in the PlayStation Store. You redeem it yourself, it lands in your account, the game is yours. GamesPSN's shared account is €16.77, fifteen euros cheaper and a completely different product. Very Positive, 56,829 of 61,106.
Gears of War Reloaded shows the other face of resale. Kinguin's PSN code asks €53.10 while the PlayStation Store sells the same game for €19.99, so the reseller wants thirty-three euros more than Sony for the identical thing. The GamesPSN account is €14.93. Mixed on Steam, 2,385 of 3,910, the weakest verdict on this list, and it is a cover shooter that the tag has plainly stretched to reach.
Seven pages where a borrowed login is all there is
No code, no disc, and an official price sitting well above the account. On these the honest answer is the PlayStation Store or nothing.
Dying Light: The Beast is the freshest of them and the gap is enormous: a GamesPSN shared account at €24.43 against €69.99 in the PlayStation Store, with nothing in between. Very Positive, 51,494 of 59,188, and with a sample that size the verdict actually means something.
Atomfall runs a Difmark account at €16.78 against €59.99 in the PlayStation Store. Mostly Positive, 3,416 of 4,495.
7 Days to Die carries the biggest review count in the article: Very Positive, 237,828 of 273,366. G2A's shared account is €6.40 and the PlayStation Store €21.99. Twenty-two euros is not much to pay for owning it outright.
This War of Mine is the oldest name here and the most convincingly reviewed of the small pages: Very Positive, 76,026 of 81,748. Difmark's shared account is €8.82 and the PlayStation Store asks €19.99 for the Final Cut. Eleven euros between a stranger's password and something on your own account.
Metro Awakening: Difmark shared account €18.47, PlayStation Store €29.99, eleven euros apart. Mostly Positive, 2,197 of 3,009, another small sample.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl Enhanced Edition is one of only two Mixed verdicts on the list, 4,209 of 6,576, so the PC crowd is split on the enhanced version. Difmark's account is €12.59 and the PlayStation Store €19.99. Seven euros and change. Take the store.
The Last Stand: Aftermath closes the group: Difmark shared account €16.79, PlayStation Store €24.99, Very Positive with 4,921 of 6,075. Eight euros apart, and only one of the two is a purchase.
The one page where the official store is the cheapest way in
DOOM Eternal is the eighth page with no code and no disc, and the only one where that costs you nothing. The PlayStation Store sells it for €9.89. That is cheaper than every resale code in this article and less than six euros above Difmark's shared account at €3.94, which is the lowest figure of the twenty. For a gap that small, renting a stranger's login stops being a saving. Very Positive, 170,531 of 187,397, the second largest sample here. It is also a shooter first and a post-apocalyptic game second, which is what happens when players write the tags.
If one page deserves the click today it is that one: buy DOOM Eternal key.
Three names to take away. DOOM Eternal at €9.89 in the PlayStation Store is the cheapest honest way into this list by a distance. The Last of Us Part 1 on disc at €39.90 is half of what Sony wants for the download of the same remake. Stellar Blade as a Gamivo PSN code at €31.72 is the only resale code here that beats the official price, and it beats it by forty-eight euros.
For the other seventeen, one habit does the job: read what the offer is before you read what it costs. On all twenty of these pages the cheapest figure is a shared account, and on eight of them it is the only figure under the official price. That is not the same as a bargain.
I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for the last 14 years I have been making life easier for other gamers. CEO and co-founder of Gocdkeys.
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