Square Enix's Retro RPG Elliot Dominates PS5 Community Votes for June's Best Game

Square Enix's charming retro RPG, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, has been crowned the best PlayStation 5 game of June 2026 by Push Square readers, securing more votes in the public poll than all competing titles combined. The result was announced in an update posted on Monday, July 6th, 2026, capping off what the publication acknowledged was a notably quiet month for PS5 releases. Despite the thin competition, those running the vote were quick to emphasize that the win should not be dismissed as a soft victory — the margin of dominance was simply that decisive.

The Adventures of Elliot is a classics-inspired action RPG developed and published by Square Enix, drawing heavily from retro aesthetics while weaving in a fast-paced combat system and a narrative built around time-hopping across different historical periods. The game arrived during a stretch where the PS5 release calendar offered little in the way of major competition, yet the title still managed to generate genuine enthusiasm rather than winning by default. Players who invested time in the title have responded warmly to its energy, its visual style, and its storytelling ambition.

Push Square's official review awarded The Adventures of Elliot a score of 8 out of 10, placing it firmly in the 'great' category. The reviewer concluded that the game is "often just a delight to play through," highlighting its accessible yet engaging moment-to-moment experience. High review scores combined with strong community engagement painted a consistent picture of a game that landed well across both critical and player audiences.

Square Enix has had a complicated few years navigating player expectations for both its flagship franchises and its smaller-scale releases. The Adventures of Elliot appears to represent a successful swing toward a more approachable, nostalgia-inflected style of RPG, a direction that has proven resonant with audiences fatigued by overly complex or bloated open-world experiences. The fact that it topped community polls so convincingly suggests that appetite for tightly crafted, retro-adjacent games on PS5 remains strong.

The full top five PS5 games of June 2026 according to Push Square readers was published alongside the announcement, though Elliot's margin over the runners-up underscored just how thoroughly it captured the community's attention this month. Whether Square Enix follows up on this particular sub-brand or treats it as a standalone experiment remains to be seen, but the commercial and critical reception gives the publisher plenty of reason to revisit the concept.