I've Found the 10 Best Games for $20 or Less in the 2025 Black Friday Sales

Once again, somewhat overshadowed by Elden Ring (sorry, Guerilla Games). Horizon Forbidden West is different 100-hour positive crippled that is an implicit bargain for $19.99 connected PS5. Yes, it's besides connected PlayStation Plus if you're signed up. But bash you retrieve the feeling of owning games? Like existent carnal copies?

My advice? Pick this up for 20 bucks, and ne'er person to interest astir your PS Plus sub lapsing if you privation to replay it, oregon possibly walk much than a period getting done it (which is likely, this 1 is big). If you tin agelong to $30, the implicit variation is besides connected sale, and includes the games full DLC postulation arsenic well.

Star Wars Outlaws

Okay, here's 1 that mightiness instrumentality a small much convicing. But, spot me, adjacent a 7/10 crippled tin beryllium worthy $20.

It's different reasonably sizable introduction into this database arsenic well, and I truely deliberation there's a batch of amusive to beryllium had with Outlaws. Sure, it's got a atrocious rep, but for 20 large ones, you're really getting so much genuinely large Star Wars content, it's nary joke.

If anything, I truly deliberation it's worthy a spell for anyone who was ever connected the obstruction astir buying it. Dropping this down to conscionable $20 for some PS5 and Xbox is simply a large deal, and it's besides $39.99 for the implicit Gold Edition connected Switch 2 close present arsenic good (but again I'm breaking the rules by mentioning that, woops).

Resident Evil 2 + 3 + 7

Hey, look astatine me, cheating astatine my ain crippled again. Yeah it's expected to conscionable beryllium 10 games successful this list, but I'm having immoderate amusive with it, writer me.

Here's our archetypal picks that are hitting the "or less" portion of the article, and nary $19.99 doesn't count, that's conscionable $20, truthful don't commencement connected me.

Three superb Resident Evil games for conscionable $14.99 each, present that's hard to reason with. In my opinion, Resident Evil 2's remake connected PS5 is the champion of the bunch, but there's inactive a batch of fun to beryllium had with the RE3 remake, and Resi 7 arsenic well.

Armored Core 6

Okay here's wherever I've got to commencement admitting erstwhile I haven't played immoderate games. Armored Core 6: Fires of My Rubix Cube looks mighty cool, and it's conscionable $19.99 connected PS5, PS4, and Xbox close now.

To assistance maine merchantability it a bit, I'm going to notation to our useful IGN reviewer, Mitchell Saltzman, who awarded AC6 an 8, stating successful his review: "Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon’s stellar customization options provender into its fantabulous mecha combat, and the effect is challenging combat puzzles that kept my attraction each the mode done its 15-hour run and beyond. It’s fto down by a dull story, but lands nonstop hits wherever it counts."

Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade + Final Fantasy 16

Oh no, I haven't played these either. Again, cheating with the introduction treble ups, but it's Final Fantasy! What, americium I conscionable gonna dedicate 3 slots of Resident Evil, and 2 much to Final Fantasy, that's fractional the article? ... and I haven't adjacent played these 2 either.

Look, look, look, enactment the transportation forks away. I've ne'er been a Final Fantasy benignant of guy, and that's okay, I tin inactive spot successful the many, galore friends and collegues who archer maine these games rock. For $20 each for FF7 and FF16, I decidedly deliberation it's worthy it, adjacent for however small I know.

Red Dead Redemption 2 for $14.99

Hey, I've played this one! It's great, we each emotion Red Dead Redemption 2, adjacent if it is inactive stuck astatine 30fps. Another banger from Rockstar, and different crippled you tin driblet implicit 100 hours in, nary questions asked.

If you're looking for different superb crippled to descend your teeth into portion we hold for Grand Theft Auto 6 (which conscionable got delayed again, ouch), past this is simply a beauteous coagulated prime for conscionable $15. It's discounted astatine GameStop for a carnal copy, oregon some PlayStation and Xbox person it for the aforesaid terms digitally.

I loved my clip with it, and was adjacent considering a cheeky replay implicit the holidays arsenic well. IGN's Luke Reilly besides awarded it a 10 successful his reappraisal from 2018... 7 years ago! Oh no, I'm getting old.

Mortal Kombat 1

Okay, truthful I've played some Mortal Kombat 1, I didn't decorativeness it, but I enjoyed my clip with it.

Not arsenic overmuch arsenic the erstwhile 2 games, if I'm being honest, but it's inactive a bully time, particularly if you person a fewer mates you tin ace a fewer beers with and conscionable messiness astir with each truthful often. At $20, that sounds beauteous large to me.

Look, not each crippled successful this nonfiction has to beryllium certified 10/10 banger similar RDR2 oregon Elden Ring, sometimes it's besides bully to walk a tenable debased magnitude of wealth connected games that are conscionable plain, simple, fun. And Mortal Kombat 1 is precisely that: fun!

Shin Megami Tensei V

I truly should've enactment much games successful that I've really played. What is that, similar 4 now? Yeesh, that's kinda rough. Okay, truthful astatine slightest ign.com's 7/10 reappraisal squad tin backmost maine up again with this one.

Leana Hafer reviewed this one, and awarded it a precise respectable 8 successful her reappraisal backmost successful 2022, stating: "Shin Megami Tensei V's fantabulous JRPG combat and profoundly rewarding customization radiance bright, adjacent erstwhile it sometimes feels similar Persona without the heart."

Sounds beauteous bully to me, possibly I should really commencement checking retired immoderate much JRPGs. In immoderate case, this is down to conscionable $17.99 astatine Amazon for PS5, Xbox, and Switch, and that's a certifiably large deal.

Tekken 8

Final crippled that's worthy picking up for $20 oregon less! It's Tekken 8! No, I haven't played this one, either! Yes, I've heard it's very, precise good! Listen, I walk mode excessively overmuch clip conscionable playing Darkest Dungeon connected my Steam Deck, and possibly I should find much clip to play warring games. Okay look, I committedness I'll bargain it and springiness it a spell implicit Christmas. Happy?

Ronny Barrier reviewed this 1 for IGN, awarding it a fantastic 9/10, and stated: "Tekken 8 is an unthinkable improvement for the series, with tons of azygous subordinate content, an fantabulous suite of grooming tools, a large online experience, and breathtaking caller mechanics that marque Tekken much dynamic than ever."

Honorable Mentions

Some speedy honorable mentions for nether $20 bangers earlier I commencement badgering connected astir immoderate much spenny games: LEGO 2K Drive is conscionable $15, and truthful is Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and the Mario + Rabbids Dual Pack for Switch.

But, anyway, similar I said adjacent the commencement of the article, there's really loads more large games successful the sales, and plentifulness I couldn't see (even with maine already breaking the rules a fewer times).

If you're fund is much successful the $30-$40 range, past I tin urge plentifulness of different apical titles, similar 1 of my favorites of the year, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 for $30, oregon 2024's Game of the Year winner, Astro Bot, for $39.99.

One of my different apical picks from 2024 is besides conscionable $25 successful the sales, for some PS5 and Switch 2, Sonic X Shadow Generations. This is good worthy it simply for the caller Shadow levels alone.

Otherwise, immoderate of the champion Nintendo Switch games are besides down to conscionable $30 close present arsenic well, specified arsenic the each clip great, Super Mario Odyssey.

That's each she wrote! Well, isolated from this bit. And past this spot arsenic well... and the remainder of everything I'm going to constitute now.

Good occupation getting to the extremity of this nonfiction and my non-sensicle ramblings astir 13 inexpensive games I whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person played (also successful an nonfiction that's meant to beryllium constricted to conscionable 10).

Right, that's maine really done now, if you prime up thing bully implicit Black Friday, oregon conscionable privation to archer maine however overmuch of a fool I am, fto maine cognize successful the comments ASAP. Have a large Thanksgiving, and spot you adjacent time.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.

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Nov 24, 2025 4:30 pm