PlayStation Plus: Free Games for April 2016

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PlayStation Plus: Free Games for April 2016

Hi everyone — we’re happy to announce the PS4 Plus games for April. Pilot a warship escaping from a dying star in Dead Star or survive a zombie-infested London in Zombi on PS4.

First up we have Dead Star, a team-based shooter with RPG influence that we are excited to have launch as a Plus game. Dreamed up by the folks at Armature Studio (Founded by key members of the Metroid Prime team!), Dead Star is the result of a “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” process that started with a space shooter foundation and includes elements of strategy and MOBA-like titles.

The result is a 20-player online experience that’s easy to pick up and play, but also offers a great deal of depth (skill trees, ship upgrades, team strategy, and more). Dead Star has been a big hit at shows like PlayStation Experience and PAX South where players are finding something really special.

The second PS4 game this month is Zombi, a first-person survival-horror experience. Zombi really was at the forefront of the resurgence we’ve seen in recent years of genuine survival-horror games. The London setting combined with well-paced gameplay sets Zombi apart from more action-oriented titles. Add in the extra challenge of permadeath and it’s easy to see why this game became a cult hit.

In the last several years we’ve seen a lot of experimentation with the blending of genres. This month’s PS4 titles are shining examples of the kinds of mashups that create a lot of rich and layered gaming experiences.

So, in addition to your opinions on this month’s PS Plus titles, I’d also like to hear about your thoughts on game genres, what you find appealing, and why.

Full Lineup:

  • A Virus Named Tom, PS Vita
  • Dead Star, PS4
  • I Am Alive, PS3
  • Savage Moon, PS3
  • Shutshimi, PS Vita
  • Zombi, PS4

See you in the comments section. Enjoy.

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  • Another month of meh zombi wasn’t that great on the Wii u and dead star doesn’t look interesting at all to me. Really starting to wonder what I’m paying for honestly glad people are enjoying the games but they just sit they’re in my library doing nothing bit of a waste

    • I think 90% of the community are not enjoying the games though. Where is the variety? This is just ridiculous.

  • hooray, PS3 & PS Vita get “balls” games for free!

  • Would be happy if I had a PS4.

    Only have a Vita and PS3…..so nothing for me. Maybe Shutsuimi….everything else is mediocre.

    Last 2 months….all standalone. Crossbuy has always been good for the Vita.

    I am alive free for 2 months….great for the people who did not pick it up in the error..

  • I cant judge these games, ive not played them. Good to see Zombi on there- it was one of those ‘I wanna try it but Im not sure its worth my money’ moments.

    Maybe a rating system on the games when we stop playing? Im sure people wont mind picking a star rating the first time we come out of a game- And it will enable sony to see how the games were received?

    • That’s actually a really good idea. How would they implement that, I’m not sure. Maybe ask for a rating when you delete off your PS4? Or ask for a rating once you’ve played a game for a set amount of time? Either way it would be a better way of gauging how well a game is received.

  • Sony, it’s obvious you don’t care about the quality of the IGC, while Microsoft has been busting their balls to give way better offerings than you do now. We can tell you don’t care, because you’re devoting less and less resources to the program. You used to give us a hosted video outlining all 6 games. Now you don’t even bother, and throw together a 30 second clip fest for the ps4 games only. You don’t care about giving us good games, because you’ve already hooked us with ps plus being necessary for online play on ps4. Microsoft is doing better than you in terms of customer support. They have been working to make every game backwards compatible and provide the EAorigin vault, while you turned it away because it would detract from your floundering psNow service. You’re letting XboxOne look like a more attractive console by your complacency, and will lose out on potential sales because of it. Great job.

  • Can’t wait to check out Dead Star!! ZombiiU was a great game and can’t wait to try it on the PS4. Keep up the good work Andy!

  • I just bought Zombi too. Sigh.

  • Awkward. Shadow of the Beast announcement was probably bigger news than April’s PSN Plus lineup. Don’t quite like it. Hopefully May has a better surprise in store. Cheers, XOXO.

  • 4th crappy month in a row…

    • I couldn’t agree more

    • Nobody should have their own opinion or complain because King Fenestrata won’t like it. Last I checked this is a service people pay for and this is America and people are entitled to their own opinion, view points and can say what they want. Just like you say no one is forcing us to keep the ps plus memebership no one is forcing you to read this thread.

    • more like first crappy month in a row
      grim fandango and hardware rivals were good
      nom nom galaxy was good
      and broforce was okay

  • I’m so sick of Sony apologists. We pay for the service and have every right to complain if we see fit. I don’t even get excited anymore for the ps plus announcement. The games have not been up to par with what Microsoft offers. I have been a customer since PS One and PS Day one. They are only giving us these offerings because they are ahead in the console war if they were behind we would be getting a better offering.

    • So this month there is a non-indie game with a BETTER metacritic score than Knack (a game with complainer incessantly cry for EVERY month for some reason…), and it’s not good enough. I saw the same complaints when we had ps plus months with games like Transistor as a free game. Transistor is an insanely good game–better than most AAA games–and yet we still got to watch the complainers cry.

      The funniest months are when people compare to Xbox giving away Tomb Raider. Yet Sony gave it away TWO YEARS EARLIER..

      Hey, look! Borderlands for xbox in January! Oh, Sony gave BOTH of them away YEARS…YEARS ago… Oh. WELL. “Xbox gets Dead Space!!!! Oh, Sony did it in 2014..” “Saints Row! Oh, Sony gave away 2 and 3 years ago. Hmm.” “But xbox and Sherlock Holmes! Oh, looks like Sony did that one as well.”

      Just once I’d like to read the thread below each month’s announcement and not have it be filled with whiners.

      Sooo.. yeah.

      -Apparent Sony apologist

    • which complainers*

    • Now if only that Borderlands or Dead Space or Saints Row that Sony gave ‘years ago’ would work on my PS4. Whats the point of already giving them away if they don’t work on your current console. All XBox 360 games on GWG since November 2016 are fully backwards compatible with XBox One. Now that’s how its done. Leard Sony, learn.

    • Correction: …since November 2015…

    • You guys just forget that this service that you pay for is actually for server and network support/online gaming. The games are only an incentive. Its cool having your own opinions on either side of the arguement but really if you only pay for ps+ for the games why dont you pay only during months that you like the games offered? Nobody is forcing you to subscribe every month. However if you use it for online gaming too and the sales, you are totally getting your moneys worth. Its only annoying to me because its a 5 dollar service and every month we are given games worth more in value. Honestly most ps+ I dont pay but I definitely cash in on the sales amd make my subscription well worth it.

  • It might be crazy, but I was hoping we’d get some Ratchet & Clank action with the movie coming out.

  • When you look at xbox line up for months now, They have atleast 1 fun game to play… Sony on the other hand have now had any fun games for months now you guys just need to STOP being so cheap! These games are not FUN & only game i can remember be worth my download was Rocket league! Pick it up! or let us go back to ps3 way… Don’t need ps+ to play online!

  • It’s gonna be a loooong year for PS3 and Vita users. I hope they put at least ONE game that is interesting. Please Sony, at least One.

    Or drop Vita and PS3 and show your real intention.

  • I KNEW if I waited long enough, I Am Alive would eventually hit plus.

    Greatness…Still waiting.

  • I always wanted to try zombi this is a good lineup but for my favorite genres of games I mainly like FPS games (ex. Battlefield 4 or anything like battlefield) and TPS games like The Division etc.

    • I always wanted to know the status of some of the free to play games still coming to ps4 there’s been no news of a couple of them

  • I’ll probably download Zombi & I Am Alive, I sick of this Indies game why not give us some old PS2 or PS1 games I rather have that than some of garbage lately

  • Once again another month rolls around, and I own pretty much ALL the games offered. :) Plus… I totally love Indie games but damn if PS+ is just shoveling them down our throats now.

  • Is there a way I can suspend my ps plus for a while ? Signed up for another year like a doylem, don’t bother downloading any of the crap ‘free’ games and I rarely play anything online anymore.

  • My Playstation Plus Subscription expires on April 3rd, I am NOT renewing , disappointed in the games that are being offered & NOT playing online currently.

  • Why don’t some of you drama queens just let you sub lapse and sell your PS4’s and get an Xbox then?

    • Genuinely considering it to be honest

    • Exactly. I think it may be because they’re not allowed to. I mean, it Mmust be SOMETHING stopping them. It’s the only logical thing to do when they’re SO enraged month after month. But then, we’d be applying logic to the thoughts of the complainers. And they don’t do logic.

      Here is a fun experiment for all you complainers. Go look up all of the games Microsoft has been giving away and then compare them to this list of ones Sony has given away:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Instant_Game_Collection_games_(North_America)

      Try to ignore the other couple hundred that Sony has given away. I think you’ll be surprised how many matching games Sony has given away years before Microsoft ever did.

      Enjoy!

    • The problem is not the PS4 itself. It is Sony, the cheapest and lamest.

      I’d rather spend $49.99 on a retail PS4 game than cough it up again for PS Plus, which is, no doubt, the biggest waste of money in videogaming of all-time.

      I’m convinced PS Plus is now being run by a 19-year-old intern fresh out of high school.

    • Or you could stop being a fanboy and actually realize you are in an abusive relationship with Playstation Plus.

    • Cruel_Elijah Then why are you in such a abusive relationship as well with your PLUS membership Icon on your Avatar ?

  • At least Zombi is a AAA game. I’ll give it a shot. Dead Star is growing on me. The more I look at it the more I’m interested.

    I have stuck up for PS Plus many times, but last month and this month, Xbox has been much better. I’m jealous of Lords of the Fallen and Sunset Overdrive. I don’t have a lot of money for games, so old AAA’s would excite me. Ah well, I still have a bunch of plus ps3 games to play to hold me over until next month.

  • Seriously, what the heck is with these Vita games. Just stop giving us Vita free games if you’re going to keep giving us trash month after month. It will give me a good reason to cancel my PS+ subscription. Honestly, I’m a bit fed up, I don’t understand how people keep championing this service as “the best value in gaming.” It’s getting to the point where I’d much rather save my 50$ and cherry pick games I actually want when they go on sale than to have my inbox crammed with trash I spend less than an hour with month after month. I’ve got a PC for multiplayer games, I guess. Even new release sales are only 10% off. Wow a savings of 2$! What a deal! At least amazon gives 20% off new releases and pre-orders.

  • I don’t know what to think of this months offerings. the only thing decent is zombie. I want aaa games but not ones that are 10 years old that are very cheap and everyone has already played by now.

    • Then go buy them.

    • I don’t know why Sony doesn’t give us Killzone or something like that. They own killzone and it would cost nothing. The plus games are such a joke.

    • I don’t understand.
      Go BUY the games then.
      It’s not that hard.
      Stop wanting everything for free.
      Not everything in life is a hand-out.

    • @SensualPancake

      You really dont understand.
      He is paying for games. (PS Plus is a game sub service, that now includes online functions, you know the exact opposite of XBL.
      It’s not that hard.
      Paying for a sub service ($50 per yr) is the exact opposite of free.
      Just because your mom pays for your sub, doesn’t mean its free, now go clean your room.

  • Cool, ws gonna buy zombi other day, lucky didnt. Im quite happy with ps+ the discounts ive used on dlc for games and reduced games alone has paid for the small amount of £39 a year.

  • another month of garbage, thx

  • Too little too late

  • I like zombi it was a pc game before it came to console and I played it then but the other game Doesn’t look too interesting if I was sony I would bring back the fan favourite rocket leage for the people that missed it last year or the new people (I missed it) anyways this is a decent choice

  • R.I.P Vita. What a ****** month for vita owners. This is an insult.

  • IS I AM ALIVE CROSSBUY AND PLAYABLE ON PS4?

  • Dead Star and Zombi look right up my alley! Great choices on the PS4 front!

    The vita could use some love, don’t want that bad boy collecting too much dust.

  • Is this some kind of a joke because it’s April ?
    Ps3 already got I am Alive for free on march.
    I don’t know if it was a mistake or something but, I’ve downloaded it for free previous month.

  • this is just utter garbage Greatness awaits no one is happy with this bull crap people want a decent AAA game an exclusive ffs not an Wii U Crap
    You might have more sales then xbox but xbox are still giving the players what they deserve stop giving us indie crap and give us an exclusive xbox got Sunset overdrive, Wolf among us, Dead space and saints row iv ps plus gives 6 compared to 4 but those 4 are way beyond compare to the 6
    We all want an AAA game not an indie trash
    Step up your game ps plus because soon pretty much everyone will agree your gonna lose subscribers and xbox will take em and to prevent this stop giving us absolute stinking trash

  • Can I please get my money back for the unused months of my year long PS plus subscription? I’m just so tired of these lame games… I don’t even really play multiplayer games, so it’s not like I need PS Plus. I made a horrible mistake when I wasted my money on it.

    Refund, please.

    • Sony don’t give us decent games and rips us off
      so do you think they will refund
      they are selfish people who treat us as absolute dirt no matter what they won’t

    • You’re not alone, i also wasted my money on this horrible service. Fortunately it expires on 25 of april.

    • After many attempts and long hours with Sony “support” I can tell you that you won’t get a refund or any sort of compensation for the remainder of your subscription. What you WILL get is rudeness, condescending remarks, and ****** attitude.

    • Do you use the online game save feature? That’s a PS+ feature. Have you purchased anything using the PS+ deals or exclusive discounts? Taken part in any of the PS+ exclusive demos? This is just a reminder that PS+ is a WHOLE LOT MORE than just the ICG.

  • I could’ve sworn I Am Alive was with the March lineup….. Anyway, I would love if you guys have NBA 2K15 or baseball available for a free game

    • I Am Alive was up for one day last month – it was a mistake. It was replaced by Super Stardust HD. So, some people did get it last month but it wasn’t meant to be the offering last month.

  • So, something needs to be done.

    I’ve sat through many months of mediocre games and haven’t said anything, I just can’t do it anymore. Zombi is a 4 yr old Wii U launch title, right? And all of these twin stick shooters are bland and not very fun to play. I know some people will say not to complain about the free games we are getting because they are free, but in all fairness, I’m spending $50 a year with the promise of good games every month. The competition is doing much better.

    The only other use I have for PS Plus is the online features and the only game I’m utilizing that for now is Street Fighter V, which has been a trainwreck so far – so I’m relying on these PS Plus games to convince me that my $50 investment in the program isn’t just another waste of money.

    I’d really appreciate a reply from someone at PlayStation, to me, a consumer with concerns, because these back-to-back months of dull game line-ups is making me regret renewing my membership. If you can amend this month’s line-up, please do it. PS Plus used to be a great program, well worth the up-front costs, now it just seems like you’re handing out whatever games you can get your hands on for a cheap buck to keep us happy.

    • Tariguana….very well said.

      The thing is….PS Plus USED to be a great service. The games were much better, more varied, and you could always count on one or two very decent titles per month. And even if there were a couple of subpar months, Sony usually compensated by having a terrific month loaded with great titles.

      Not sure when this exactly happened, but it is VERY noticeable that Sony has scaled back PS Plus and the IGC for awhile now, to the point where garbage is the NORM, not the exception.

      I’m just glad other gamers are noticing and letting their subs lapse, like I did.

      GARBAGE AWAITS.

    • A few more PS1 and PS2 classics would be good!!

    • Very well said mate

  • Boy oh boy I am going to buy plus now! … bazinga!

  • More AAA games please! At least a good one every two months! I believe any of these games would be cool
    Skyrim, the witness, firewatch, Far cry 4, bloodborne, FO New Vegas, Any COD. But the best best thing you could do:
    Novembee 2016 for PS+
    RISE OF THE TOMB RIDER

    That would be soooooo epic!!

    • Please no on Rise of the Tomb Raider. I would rather see the first one free on PS+ again as it was free on PS3. I sold the Xbox One version of that game. Just could not get into it.

    • WHY would Square Enix agree to give away Rise of the Tomb Raider. There is no way Sony would pay over 10 million dollars to Square Enix to make that happen…

      Rise of the Tomb Raider sold over a million copies in the first month on Xbox One. Even if the PS4 version didn’t outsell that it would mean giving away at least 40 million dollars in gross profits. And that’s if Sony gave Square 10 million to do it… SERIOUSLY.

      People do want something for nothing. Wow.

    • Woah. You clearly don’t understand how business works. You must be a stupid little kid lol. “Any COD”…yeah definitely a child.
      The Witness? Firewatch? Would you want to give away your game for free that just came out a couple of months ago?

      As the person above said: “People do want something for nothing. Wow.” Too true.

      Not everything in life is free.

  • Beginning to wonder why I sprung for the 3 month membership. So tired of the indie games. The PS4 has been out long enough to release more mainstream games

  • “A Virus Named Tom”? REALLY?

    I doubt anyone is rushing to their wallet to subscribe for “A Virus Named Tom”. I certainly won’t be resubscribing.

    “A Game Called Junk”…..that’s what the IGC should be called from now on.

  • This month is sad :( because we can see great games for the other company and for ps4 is nothing compared to other the console Please listen your users we want better games like assassin’s creed or the order Saints Row anything that had a good review or sale percentage .Thanks !

    • sony are those type of people if you say give us assassins creed they will give assassins creed chronicles and is only for the ps3 not ps4 they think giving games only for the ps3 catches our attention even tho everyone wants free AAA games for the ps4 not for ps3 and if they are giving ps3 games atleast make it backwards compatibility xbox has it.

  • Looking forward to Zombi! Haven’t heard of the two Vita games so I’ll be giving those a shot as well. Been very satisfied with PS+. $40 a year (I get it on sale) well spent.

  • these ****** vita games everytime

  • yet another month I’m glad i didn’t waste $50 on this service. keep up the crapy job sony!!!!

  • This is an extremely dissatisfing and disappointing line up, the quality of ps+ has greatly decilne.

    Please reconsider the future line ups

  • I have a serious question for those calling these games “trash” or “garbage”. Have you played these games? If so, then you have every right to those opinions. On the other hand, if you haven’t played them, which I’m assuming the majority of you haven’t, you have absolutely no grounds to call these games “garbage” or “trash” because you have never even experienced them in the first place, so just stop. Saying you’re not interested would be more accurate. These games may indeed be “garbage” or “trash”, but at least actually play them before coming to that conclusion.

    Throughout the year, if you’re able to find a handful of games (3-4) offered through PS+ IGC that you actually enjoyed and like, it’s worth it for the service. I resubscribe every year regardless of some of the stinkers we get mainly because I get to try out games I normally wouldn’t try. And if I end up liking it, it’s a bonus for me.

    • Have you played any of the games they’ve given us? Like for real? Are you serious? Zombi got bad reviews so IE it is TRASH. Dead star is the same kind of game as GalakZ and that was last month, if you didn’t like that, you probably won’t like this. IE TRASH. Like are you seriously trying to justify this when Xbox gets wolf among us, Sunset overdrive, dead space, and saints row 4. Like seriously? Come on man. Try not to ride Sony too hard. This is ridiculous. 99% of us want variety. So clearly some variety should be given.

    • i agree on Cruel_Elijah
      All these games we have got is as bad has a dogs droppings
      xbox cares for players and gives them what they deserve and sony all they care about is selling and giving indie rubbish

    • @Cruel_Elijah Yes. I absolutely play every single game at least a little bit. If I don’t care for it, it gets deleted. But I definitely don’t judge a game without even at least trying it because that would be unfair to the developer who put a lot of work into making the game. And I certainly don’t call it trash. Because here’s the deal: Just because I didn’t like it, doesn’t mean someone else won’t. I would more appropriately say the game was not my thing. At least that’s being honest as well as more accurate in describing the quality of a game.

      Judging a game based on a different game that may be similar is just dumb. What if this new game being offered has a different mechanic that actually makes it more enjoyable than that other game that you thought was trash? Oh, but you wouldn’t even know about that because you didn’t even bother to try the game out. Whatever.

  • This lineup isn’t bad at all. Although gold members get sunset overdrive, Wolf among us, and one of the dead space games, so… Get your **** together, Sony!

  • Vita’s are trash. Go figure. At least PS4 is passable this month. Though still doesn’t hold a candle to XBO’s 4 games. I’m just glad to be getting something I’m interested in on PS4 for once

  • Come on Sony… This is what you have to offer… Someone shoot me!

  • Hey! as long as they have platinum trophy! I’m in ! thanks Sony. :)

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