Gris Review (PS5) – When Gris launched back in 2018, players and critics alike immediately identified it as an excellent expression of trauma and how we deal with the most troubling times in our life through a game.

Now, after over a million copies sold on multiple platforms, Gris has made its way onto PS5, and while you may have already played Gris through time and again, it’s worth at least one more playthrough on Sony’s latest console.

Not just from a visual standpoint, but in the many ways Gris is able to utilize the PS5’s feature set, I believe Gris on PS5 to be the definitive version to play of this beloved indie.

Gris Review (PS5) – The Definitive Version Of A Beloved Indie

Restoring What Was Broken

Despite Gris having been out since 2018, and on PlayStation since it came to PS4 in 2019, I’ve never played it until this review. Not for any particular reason, only that it has been one of those games I’d always meant to play but for one reason or another, never did.

Thankfully, just as I had unintentionally avoided playing Gris until now, I’d also avoided any actual spoilers, something that I was incredibly happy for only 20 minutes into my first playthrough.

Gris wastes no time pulling you into its world, as it opens to your playable character resting on a stone hand, who seconds later you watch fall a great length as the stone breaks and crumbles.

From there, your journey begins, and you slowly begin to uncover what exactly it is you’re meant to do. Gris…