That’s right! Provided (a) you’ve got a calibrated 1000-nit HDR display, (b) you’ve spent all of 30 seconds performing console-level HDR calibration and (c) you game in a controlled viewing environment, dialing in the picture of the very best HDR games could not be simpler. Half of the games listed are virtually plug-and-play.
Findings
- Half of the games support console-level HDR calibration.
- Eleven of the twenty recommended titles require no adjustment whatsoever.
- Six titles require just one adjustment.
Streamed content on platforms like Netflix seldom approaches the raw visual impact of a well-implemented HDR game on a current-gen console. The recommendations below are based on console play (PS5) and do not guarantee the same results on PC.
Legend
✅ System HDR – Uses console-level HDR calibration
⚙️ Manual – Ignores system HDR calibration
All settings assume HGiG is enabled on your display.
No adjustment necessary:
- ⚙️ Battlefield 1 (2016). Leave HDR Brightness at 1,000 and Brightness slider in the Basic tab at 50% (default).
- ⚙️ Battlefield V (2018). Leave HDR Brightness at 1,000 and Brightness slider in the Basic tab at 50% (default).
- ⚙️ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019). Leave HDR Brightness at 1.0000, HDR Black Point at 0.00, and HDR White Point at 0.75 (all default settings).
- ✅ Metro Exodus (2019, including The Two Colonels and Sam’s Story expansions).
Leave Gamma at middle (default). - ✅ Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
- ⚙️ Resident Evil Village (2021). Leave Max Brightness (HDR) and Brightness (HDR) sliders at Mid (default).
- ✅ Gran Turismo 7 (2022)
- ⚙️ Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023). Leave Max Brightness (HDR) and Brightness (HDR) sliders at Mid (default).
- ✅ The Last of Us Part II Remastered (2024)
- ✅ Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024)
- ✅ Battlefield 6 (2025). Leave default World Brightness setting at 50.
One adjustment:
- ✅ Days Gone: Remastered (2019). Decrease Brightness to 4 to improve contrast.
- ⚙️ Doom Eternal (2020, along with the campaign expansion packs Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods – Parts One and Two). Increase HDR White Point to 0.24 to improve contrast. Leave other settings at default.
- ✅ Ghost of Tsushima (2020). Increase in-game brightness slider to 70 to mitigate black crush.
- ✅ Deathloop (2021). Decrease Middle Gray to 9 from 11 to improve contrast. Leave Saturation, Brightness and Screen Luminance (300) at default settings.
- ⚙️ Dead Island 2 (2023). Leave White Point slider at 1000 (default) and Black Point slider at 0 (default). Reduce Brightness to 0 from 25 and UI Brightness to 0 from 54.
- ✅ The Outlast Trials (2024). Decrease paper white setting from 22 (default) to ≤ 5.
Need Tweaking:
- ⚙️ Mass Effect Legendary Edition. Mass Effect (2007) HDR Contrast +1, HDR Brightness 800, Mass Effect 2 (2010) HDR Contrast 0, HDR Brightness 900, and Mass Effect 3 (2012) HDR Contrast -5, HDR Brightness 700.
- ⚙️ S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024). Leave Contrast at 75%, set Brightness to 46%, leave Gamma at 44%, HDR Black Point at -4, HDR White Point at 1,000, decrease HDR Saturation from 60% to 50%, set HDR Brightness to 40, HDR Interface Brightness to 0% and UI Opacity to 50%.
- ⚙️ Gears of War: Reloaded (2025). Reduce Brightness to 130 from 140 (default), increase Contrast to 70 from 50 (default), and leave HDR Brightness at 1,000.
NOTE: All games were evaluated on a calibrated ASUS PA32UCDM (HDR_PQ BT.2020/PQ Clip) and edited in DaVinci Resolve Studio 21 on an M1 Max MacBook Pro.
Dead Island 2 Recommended HDR Settings
The Daejeon Chronicles 