PS Plus: Free Games for January 2017

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PS Plus: Free Games for January 2017

A New Year and a new set of games coming to PlayStation Plus members! This month we have the excellent Day of the Tentacle Remastered and This War of Mine: The Little Ones.

First up, we have the zany Day of the Tentacle Remastered. This is a mind-bending, time traveling, puzzle adventure in which three unlikely friends work together to prevent an evil mutated purple tentacle from taking over the world. Originally released in 1993, this remastered game is a classic and not be missed.

Now, if you are looking for something a bit more serious, look no further than This War of Mine: The Little Ones. Play as a group of civilians trying to survive in a city under siege while struggling to collect food and medicine. Make life-and-death choices driven by your conscience, while dealing with the constant dangers of war.

Full lineup:

  • Day of The Tentacle Remastered, PS4 (Cross buy on PS Vita)
  • This War of Mine: The Little Ones, PS4
  • Blazerush, PS3
  • The Swindle, PS3 (Cross Buy on PS4 and PS Vita)
  • Azkend 2, PS Vita
  • Titan Souls, PS Vita (Cross Buy on PS4)

Enjoy the New Year and new games!

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  • Everyone has a right to express what they think of the monthly lineup. I personally don’t like it, but will try it out. But expressing your opinion so that Sony understands what it’s consumers like is a good idea. Don’t rip people for being honest. They may miss out on something good. So maybe take it easy and let ps plus members vent their frustrations or excitement of the available games.

    • I don’t think the issue is with people not liking the games and expressing their opinion. I think the issue is that people are stating their opinion as fact and then making stuff up to support their “facts”. I appreciate your understanding of that in the way you state your feelings on the issue.

  • when we ganna get rocket leuge

  • Dude,

    I started watching the youtube videos for these.

    Every one had me yawning…. LOL

    DAMN snoozefest on all of them

  • Oh what do you know, more terrible games. Truly disappointing how they treat their clients.

  • Sony just make a plan that is cheaper without these “FREE” games. You are able to increase the yearly price by giving us something we didn’t ask for. You have been a bad boy Sony, you owe your fans more.

  • Honestly I appreciate the games. My bigger problem is that I stopped buying indie games because they drop them to $3 on a flash sale in a month and then free in 3 months. Still plenty of value in my PS+ subscription but you’ve gotta be losing sales. I know you did from me.

  • I could care less about Ps+ IGC, I got a more important question that I hope someone from Sony will answer…. Are you guys going to keep selling broken games full price? I got 7 days to Die, BEYOND broken, now I got Ark and guess what? BROKEN too.. CONGRATULATIONS! KEEP THE AWESOME WORK!…

    • Maybe I missed something here, but how are these broken games an issue for Sony? Aren’t the developers the ones responsible for their broken games?

  • Yay! Day of the Tentacle! I haven’t played This War of Mine, but I’ve heard great things. Very happy with the PS4 offerings. Can’t say I know much of the PS3 and Vita titles, but I’ll give ’em a shot on a snowy NYC evening one of these nights.

  • Holy mackerel what a great beginning to the new year. This is just the start. This line up has a little something for everyone. You know it’s just great to be able to play so many different tittles. I’m here to tell you not every game is for everyone. And some games are for the mass. But we all don’t like the same things. That’s what makes you individuals all of us.Sony and the PlayStation Network strive every minute of every day to make your entertainment experience the world’s best so be prepared to be moved in the upcoming year with a PlayStation experience that will surely blow your minds. Like PSVR new apps new features hundreds of mind popping title’s to be enjoyed. And the most important the adventures and lifelong friendships and new PlayStation family members you will meet and enjoy all the entertainment Sony Entertainment International and PlayStation Entertainment International has to offer. Thank you again from your customer ambassador to the PlayStation Entertainment International/PSN PSN ID:bombbreath any questions or comments drop me a line on the PSN.

  • I’ve wanted This War of Mine for a while, thanks!

    I wish the Vita games didn’t consistently suck in diversity though. I haven’t downloaded one of these Vita games in at least 4 or 5 months

  • Another slap to the face of loyal subscribers. Sony does not care what you want. But they do want your money by subscribing to PS plus. The only reason i subscribed to PS Plus is for the mandatory requirement for online play on playstation 4. That’s IT! As long as you support ps plus, they will continue to dish out sub standard games.

  • Come on guys have you never heard of brutal legaend? Tim Shaffer made that game and a few other that are a lot of fun. Besides DotT the rest of the line up is bad.

  • This is actually a pretty cool line-up, in my opinion at least. I have tried none of these games and most of them are on my game list (all but the ps3 ones) so I’m really looking forward to adding them to my playlist this january :D

  • Nice, been wanting to get my hands on this war of mine

  • More indie Rubbish!

  • My Plus expires in a few months. Ciao.

  • more indie trash. what a way to start 2017! thanks $ony

  • For these of you who always have to cry about the free games, just watch this here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avWCE6V3Dck

    This is exactly my oppinion.

  • Again PS you have failed with the game selection. I hate these indie games they are a pile sorry to say. Xbox has done us yet again. We need a petition for better games. This is not good enough I’m paying an annual subscription and getting ****.

  • I only bought the ps plus subscription for the online muliltplayer access. when i had xbox 360, before they started games with gold that was all it was for, and you paid $50 per year for xbox live to play multiplayer. It was as simple as that. then xbox live started games with gold to compete with the sony serivce that offered these free games each month. Frankly i could care less about the games since i bought it mostly for multiplayer, but the games are just a bonus. so i guess i dont understand the outrage. are people actually buying this service for the free games per month as a main selling point? if thats the case then okay i can understand your outrage in some of these game choices, but just realize that its hard to appeal to everyone with these games. for some it will be a great game for others trash. maybe the next month will be better, but when i look back each year on the number of games i actually add to my library and download, its usually 8-10. and those are games i most likely either would not have even known about or something that i was waiting to buy for a while but was playing other triple AAA games.

    • Most people that complain were also on PS3, when you werent forced to pay to play online. Ps plus was pretty much only the free games a month and some other additions. Once sony started forcing people to pay for online multiplayer and the quality of free games dropped, every long time ps plus subscriber has every right to complain. It’s a crooked business scheme.

  • I am extremely pleased to see This War of Mine. I have it on PC and have always wanted to play it on the PS4. Guess now I can!

  • Meh! I think the free games are getting worse. I’ve only heard of one of those games, and even that doesn’t interest me. I guess I’m just paying to play online, which I don’t do often. Huh! Who knows maybe I’ll actually enjoy one of these Indy games. So many get so much hype, like that Rapture one and then turn out to be boring lemons that had so much wasted potential by sucky storytelling or just outright pathetic stories.

    • There have been some months with nothing of interest but each year I probably get 8-10 that I spend some time with. These indies are great for time in between AAA releases or when I don’t have a lot of time to invest in a big game. Many of these are like original Nintendo games when it comes to graphics but if I would still play classic nes games if I had it because a good game is a good game.

      Furi was a fun surprise for this year. Also I already had a hard copy of NBA 2k16 so when it came out this summer on PS plus I was able to trade my old one in for $20 credit. Lords of the fallen. Dead star (dead now but put some time into the game so was good for free), Journey.

  • More than happy with these games.

  • Haven’t posted in a very long time. I give Indies a chance, most I don’t care for. I don’t use the cloud storage and most discounts aren’t worth it for me. So that leaves me with online which isn’t great and free games which aren’t free. My plus sub expires in 3 days and I won’t be renewing. I bought a X One for a bill, and I’ve been enjoying that more than PS4. Their servers are better than Sony. And their free games are actually free. All a matter of opinion I guess. I am unhappy with your service Sony so I’m moving on.

  • I don’t usually complain but why do you hate us?

  • Shame. Been awhile since I’ve been excited about the free games offering.

  • RDR2 deal is nice to hear but i’m not coming back to plus till SONY will do more to progress the following:
    (waiting for so long!!!)

    1. Old nice games like RDR and HITMAN Trilogy + Absolution must be available to purchase digitally for PS4 asap!
    2. Hopefully RDR2 pre-order including a digital copy which is the safest and the best option to buy a game!
    3. The Beats wireless headset is not yet supported – WTF? why we need to wait so long for a quick update like this?

    COME ON SONY! you can do better then provide “folder” support updates…

  • It’s not truly free though.

  • Honestly I just come here for the lolz at this point. 6 months of PS+ free, that’s a nice $30 to go towards a game I like instead of this monthly ****fest.

  • I remember when PS3 had PS PLUS as optional. They had quality ass games every few months. Yea I love playing cool indies every month, but this is ridiculous. I just came back from college and need to renew my plus but its not worth it. Im probably not touching my PS4 or renewing PLUS because they have not released any games that are worth it in the past year. The last PLUS game that was of quality was maybe inFAMOUS First Light (which i had already purchased. I play indies all the time because theyre actually fun but when you have indies EVERY DAMN MONTH since the beginning of the year with NO AAAs thats just ridiculous. NBA 2K16 isnt enough and I love NBA games but not everyone likes sports games. Thank God I dont have time to comment anymore because reading these comments makes my eyes hurt. You people are really blind if you think these games are going to keep you busy for an ENTIRE month, maybe a week max. What ever happened to games like Saints Row 2 and Crysis 3. Why does Xbox have better GOLD games and why is PLUS $60 if nothing has changed?

    • Well said, but you’re talking to a brick wall pal. Sony knew these people weren’t going to give up multiplayer and in fact they could take away these ‘free’ games entirely and the sheep would still pay.

  • OMG thank you Sony.( Even though your probably not listening.) I’ve always wanted to try out day of the tentacle ever since I found out about double fine. God bless your souls and happy new year to you

  • Seems dumb to not give us Gravity Rush what with Gracity Rush 2 coming out. Would totally get a bunch of new fans and promote sales of the sequel plus it’s a first party game so it would cost Sony nothing. :/

  • I’m very happy with This War of Mine, will be interested to see how it ports over from PC.

  • Para cuando un buen juego, dios! No pido un uncharted 4 o un gta v, simplemente pido un ac black flag, un battlfield 4, o un watch dog, no es mucho lo que pido. Y si van a regalar un indie regalen uno de verdad como firewatch o unravel

  • WHATEVER…Sony should’ve gave us something better for the new year, after upping the cost. They could’ve gave us something they already put out like imfamous for PS3, injustice for ps4, uncharted golden abyss for VITA…like personally I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on saints row 4 for ps4 or even throw in a couple of ps2 titles…but bottom line and my opinion they just want more money for the problems that they have with hackers…it seems to me that Xbox has their stuff in order

  • Also when I signed up back in 2013 with my PS3 there were so many AAA titles like tomb raider, uncharted 3, prototype 2, metro, payday2, yakuza 4, etc…just saying they lowered their own bar with the **** they been dealing for the last year and a half

  • Stop calling these “free”.

  • Yet another month that fails to catch my interests.
    Welp
    Looks like Im not paying ten bucks a month for the games theyre giving every year.
    PS+ is literrally just a cash grab that offers “free” games as a way to distract you from Sony reaching into your back pocket and stealing your money each month

  • I bought This War of Mine on Steam before the dlc came out, my pc has died so I’m very pleased to see that it will be free in January.

  • The annoying pat of ps plus experience soo far for me is, just because South east Asia is Asia we cannot speak or read Chinese so stop giving us free game with Chinese language as the only language available!!!!

  • Funny every time I read these announcements the whiners in the comment section always have the PS Plus symbol beside their name.

    If you don’t like it, don’t subscribe; multiplayer alone is not worth the price.

  • Every month there’s at least one game in the free list I play for a few weeks making the $5 a month totally worth it in addition to the other features ps+ gives you. “I don’t like it so I must whine in the comments!” You people are like the kid in the toy store kicking the floor and yelling because you aren’t getting what you want.

  • ეს დედამოტყნული, ნუ შეგვეცით ამ ინდი ყლეობებით, არავის რომ არ უნდა, რამე დიდი დადეთ ვაააააა

  • Finally a good line up I’ve been longing for. Please keep it up in the new year.

  • It isn’t so much the bad games they have had for free in the last couple years, but the fact that the two **** games don’t even add up to the value of one used AAA title. It’s bad enough they charge for more than a game for a yearly sub, to get two games a month that add up to about 35 usd. It’s not like the PS4 doesn’t have an extensive enough library to be able to give out a couple outdated AAA titles, instead of trying to give old indie titles attention. Indies get boring fast and have very little depth. I expect a little more than games that should be on retro consoles.

  • Another great feature of psn, I love how I pay for ps plus, and when I check my connection speeds I run at around 100mbps yet when I download something they throttle my download speeds at around 8mbps. What is that? So im paying for their service that limits my speeds?

  • tbh i understand the fact that free games are made to get u to play the games u didnt think u would play and try new things u never trieds b4 or never thought u would enjoy
    but it would be nice if we can get some good titles once in a while
    we are not asking for AAA games its more of something like furi – stryder – never alone, games that you didnt know but feel like they would be fun
    i dont think am gona be playing that “Day of the Tentacle Remastered” i dont feel like its gona be that fun ill give it a try but my expectations are low as for ” the war of mine” i was looking at it in the store and thought it would be nice if we had that as a free game and my thought got to sony :D
    hope we get furi or -klaus next month
    and better games in total

  • Saddest part is half these people complaining about the $5 a month sub that comes with free games are probably the same people who happily give $5 a month to some big-busted fake-gamer female on twitch just so they’ll say hi to them once a month on stream.

    • Lol, I never understood people who pay to watch a gameplay. What’s point?

    • Lol, too true. But I guess watching Twitch beats working, if you’re stuck sitting at a desk all day. I’ll never understand it though.

    • So you guys are saying you’ve never sat and watched a game of football, baseball, hockey, a car race, or anything else you might enjoy and possibly do yourself? It’s the same thing. Some people enjoy video games that way too.
      There’s also the fact that some people like to see actual gameplay of a game before purchasing it, and live streams give you a much better representation of the product that some highly edited trailer or youtube video can.
      Some people like watching highly skilled players play a game they enjoy which again brings me back to the first sentence. I enjoy the Souls series of games and I have a few streamers I fully enjoy watching do speedruns and special types of runs like “X weapon only” or something of that nature.
      Then there’s some people I watch like Aris who are just funny as hell and entertaining to listen to while they play.
      It all comes down to what entertains you. Not certain why that’s so hard to understand at all.

  • In the 90s we called titles like this ‘baragin bin titles’ that sold for almost nothing. You up’d the cost of ps plus and give us less then what Xbox Live is doing right now.

    Sony makes it hard to play modded games so they restrict what can be modded on titles like Skyrim and fallout. I think I am just going to get an Xbox One.

    I was gonna get the PS4 PRO but thank god I waited

  • Aww Great At The Start Of 2017 We Get More Indie **** Games. Is This What Sony Calls “Greatness Awaits”? Don’t Make Me Laugh.

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