9 Funniest PS4 Games, Ranked

Highlights

• Comedy games thrive when their main goal is to make players laugh, regardless of the size or experience of the development team.
• Niche genres like dating sims, platformers, and simulation games can still be hilarious and provide a great laugh.
• Games like
  Goat Simulator
  and
  Gang Beasts
  are excellent choices for multiplayer parties, as their silly gameplay and ragdoll physics guarantee lots of laughter.

The PlayStation 4 saw its catalog of games completely boom as developers were hard at work to make some of the biggest and coolest games that players had ever gotten their hands on. In that hustle, many were hard at work to make sure that “funny” was the main descriptor for a lot of those projects.

Some games can be developed by just a handful of devs in a small apartment, or by a team of hundreds in a well established studio; But if the end goal is to create a product that makes the player laugh, it can mean the difference between a hit and a flop.

9 Jay And Silent Bob: Mall Brawl

Snooch To The Nooch All Through The Mall

• Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC
• Released: 2020
• Genres: Beat ’em Up

Kevin Smith has always been a director that people either love or hate, with no room in between. Most of the films he has released since his debut with Clerks in 1999 have been panned critically. Despite this, he has garnered a cult following that is frankly unparalleled in the world of cinema.

It’s that cult following that Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl was made for. It’s some serviceable beat ’em up-style butt kicking surrounded by a host of references to the View Askewniverse at large. Unfortunately, as funny as it is, if players are not already a fan of the niche moviemaker, it’s definitely not going to move the needle.

8 Hatoful Boyfriend

Get To Know A Flock Of Handsome Birds

• Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PC, OS X, Linus, iOS, Android
• Released: July 31, 2011
• Genres: Dating Sim

There was a period in the mid to late 2010s where the dating sim thrived with interesting premises and even jokes about the genre. Hatoful Boyfriend lead that charge with its romance story between a human and a harem of birds. That’s birds, with wings.

While the main comedic draw to this game is the love story and dating sim gameplay, it’s wrapped up in some surprisingly well thought-out – but no less silly – explanations involving sentient birds and a war between them and humans. The dating sim is an understandably niche genre, but Hatoful Boyfriend is great for a laugh if it’s what the heart wants.

7 I Am Bread

I Am Vengeance. I Am The Night. I Am Bread.

• Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, OS X, iOS, Android
• Released: April 9, 2015
• Genres: Platforming

Platinum hunters know I Am Bread well, as it’s a fairly popular game in which to shoot for 100% completion. The game is just about as simple as it sounds, with players taking control of a slice of bread trying to wiggle its way to the toaster.

Where it can get a bit tricky is in its controls. Each corner is assigned a button for movement, not unlike Octodad, or the browser-based game QWOP. Bread can also get surprisingly dirty, so players have to watch out for the edibility bar that will fill up the more times they find themselves on the floor, or in a pile of ants.

6 Goat Simulator

Rain Chaos As A Goat

The popularity of goat scream compilations on YouTube is a phenomenon that is truly unmatched in our modern society. It’s also, no doubt, what led to the creation of one of the wildest physics-based games there is: Goat Simulator. Oh, the game build is broken? Think again.

The havoc that ensues in Goat Simulator from its built-in bugs is the price of admission, while pulling off tricks to earn points as the world falls apart is all the fun. Players will definitely struggle to complete objectives in between fits of glee.

5 Gang Beasts

8 Can Enter, One Will Leave

Games like Fall Guys and Party Animals apply their frustratingly fun brand of character movement to objective-based gameplay. Conversely, Gang Beasts keeps things simple by having the main game mode simply be to knock opponents off the stage.

Gang Beasts has secured its spot as one of the premier party games for sharing some hearty laughs with friends. Its brand of ragdoll physics-based player movement is silly enough for players to give a go, regardless of skill-level or general video game prowess.

4 Trover Saves The Universe

Definition Of An Armchair Expert

There is no denying the cultural impact that Justin Roland and Rick and Morty have had on today’s comedy. So when it was announced that Squanch Games would be created to develop games in Rolland’s design, the hype train seemed to leave the station immediately, heading straight for the PlayStation VR.

This adventure can also be enjoyed without being held down by a VR headset, though. In the game, players work to find their stolen dogs with the help of the Trover, who they have to guide them through obstacles. The game is chock-full of colorful characters that would fit right into Roiland’s previous works.

3 Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

Stop Bickering Long Enough To Save The Galaxy

It’s a common thought that superhero movie fans have: “That was incredible, if they just made a game like that movie, it’d be soooo good.” Well, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, developed by Eidos Montreal, flips the script, taking the irreverent personalities of a lot of the team that was established by the movies and transplanting them into a game.

Every moment of runtime is filled with quippy line deliveries and fun choices that change entire mission structures. Frankly, at times, it’s hard to believe that our heroes are working to save the galaxy from an imminent threat, when they themselves are laughing just as much as the player is at all of it.

2 Psychonauts 2

Hop Back Into Some Wacky Minds

Psychonauts 2 continues the story of Raz on his journey to become a Psychonaut, while also trying to find out the origins of his family and his psychic abilities. It also continues with the off-kilter humor that made the first entry such a cult classic.

It seems like a hard task for each new game in a series to live up to the last. But in the case of Psychonauts 2, it succeeds in retaining the distinct Double Fine humor, while also widening the story’s scope.

1 Borderlands 3

How Many Vaults Is It Now?

Borderlands is an example of a series that found its lane and stuck with it, and surprise surprise, Borderlands 3 has players select between a new set of vault hunters in the midst of another power grab by the villains of the story.

The game features many characters from the previous games for players that have stuck around since the beginning. That shouldn’t stop a newcomer from jumping in, though, even if they never played the previous games, as the comedy is often less about story context and more shaped by all the characters’ eccentricities.