Shocker: 79% of the Most Impactful HDR Console Games Require Little or No Adjustment

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 dim 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

• Nine of the 19 recommended titles require no adjustment whatsoever. 
• Six titles require just one adjustment.
• Half of the games support console-level HDR calibration.

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).
• ✅ 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 HDR Brightness sliders at Mid.
• ⚙️ Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023). Leave Max Brightness (HDR) and Brightness (HDR) sliders at default.
• ✅ The Last of Us Part II Remastered (2024)
• ✅ Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024)
• ✅ Battlefield 6 (2025)
• ✅ Gran Turismo 7 (2022)

Quick Fix:

• ⚙️ Battlefield V (2018). Set HDR Brightness to 1,000. Leave Brightness slider in Basic tab at 50% (default)
• ⚙️ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019). Set HDR Brightness to 1.0000, HDR Black Point to 0.00, HDR White Point to 0.75.
• ✅ Days Gone: Remastered (2019). Decrease in-game brightness slider to 3.
• ✅ Ghost of Tsushima (2020). Increase in-game brightness slider to 60 or 70 to mitigate black crush. 
• ✅ Deathloop (2021). Reduce middle gray to 9 from 11 (default) for improved contrast. Leave other settings at default.
• ✅ The Outlast Trials (2024). Decrease paper white to zero from 22 (default). 

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. 
• ⚙️ Doom Eternal (2020, along with the campaign expansion packs Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods – Parts One and Two.  HDR Brightness 6.6, HDR Saturation 1.1, HDR Min Stops -8.0, HDR White Point 0.20, HDR Max Stops 10.0
• ⚙️ Gears of War: Reloaded (2025). Set Brightness to +130, Contrast to +70, HDR Brightness to +1,000.
• ⚙️ S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024). Contrast 75%, Brightness 46, Gamma 44, HDR Black Point -4, HDR White Point 1.000, HDR Saturation 50, HDR Brightness 40, HDR UI Brightness 40%, UI Opacity 50%. 

*The Outlast Trials was tested on Xbox Series X.