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Best games on the PlayStation

By:Robert Edwards
Published: 15:29, 20 December 2016
Updated: 15:32, 20 December 2016
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What are the best games on the PlayStation? Well, we're going to tell you right here and now - all facts are 100% organically grown by us

Altchar eats dispute for breakfast, contention for lunch and dissent for dinner. So we're not afraid of getting in the ring and telling the world what the best games on the PS4 are. Our man SubReal was an octopus trainer in an underwater circus before he started making videos for Altchar - so he's no sucker. But do you agree with him? And does he care?

 

 

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