20 Awesome PS4 Exclusives You Need To Play Before PS5

19. Concrete Genie

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Concrete Genie is one of the most stunning games available on the PS4.

It's also one of the few to use the motion controls on the DualShock 4 quite effectively! In this case, you use the DualShock 4's motion to control the brush strokes of your character, a young boy called Ash (no, not that Ash).

Don't fear if you're rubbish at drawing - the game cleverly uses different selectable landscapes and images which appear as you paint (for example, you could select a tree and it'd paint a branch in the direction you move). Images pop to life with huge amounts of colour and vibrancy and before you know it, you've got something beautiful, very, very quickly.

The aim of the game is to give the titular concrete genies a new home through the art you paint; depending on what you do depends on how characters react with things, and it ultimately becomes a very serene, relaxing title with some unique, engaging mechanics.

As an added bonus, the developers also released a VR version where you can see your stunning paintings come to life before your very eyes.

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