10 Best PS4 Box Art

A big hand-lettered title sits above a row of small cartoon animals on a white box, with a few autumn leaves drifting past. Mae, the cat in the middle, has dropped out of college and gone home, and the box captures that slightly awkward, slightly cosy mood.

Cuphead and Mugman grin out of a flat yellow box under a warning not to deal with the devil, drawn like an old cartoon title card. The art style is heavily based on the rubber hose animation of the 1930s, and the box nails it.

Amaterasu runs out of a burst of red and orange, with the whole cast arranged around her like a festival banner. It is busier than the original box, but every inch is painted in the same brushstroke style as the game.

A crowd of students in school uniforms stands in front of a pale sky, with the silhouettes of giant robots looming behind them. The game follows thirteen high school students in a fictionalized 1980s Japan, and the box makes them look like the cast of a film you want to see.

The little Knight, with its white mask and two horns, stands in a glow of blue light under a delicate silver logo. That is all, and it is perfect for a game set in subterranean locations full of insects.

A boy stands next to an enormous feathered creature in a misty ruin, both looking out into the distance. The creature is Trico, and the game was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, so the box has the same quiet, faded beauty as his earlier games.

A samurai stands in a field of grass blowing in the wind, sword at his side, with the logo in thin white letters across the middle. The team was inspired by samurai cinema, especially Akira Kurosawa's films, and the box looks like a still from one.

The cast bursts out of a jagged red and black collage, with the hero front and centre in his school uniform and a masked figure looming above. It is loud and stylish, which suits a story about students who become secret vigilantes called the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

Norman Reedus stares out of a dark blue box in a hooded coat, with a glass pod holding a baby strapped to his chest. Strange and calm, it tells you very little except that this is not a normal game. It was the first game from Kojima Productions after the split from Konami.

The American box shows a hunter standing alone in a dark, gothic street, weapons hanging at his sides. Europe's box, by contrast, is a pale, misty close-up of the hunter in his tattered coat. Both catch the decrepit Gothic, Victorian-inspired city of Yharnam perfectly.