PS Plus: Free Games for April 2017

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PS Plus: Free Games for April 2017

Arena shooter Drawn to Death and couch co-op sensation Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime lead next month's lineup.

Happy springtime, PlayStation Nation! The PlayStation Plus lineup for April is here and we’re really excited for this special month of great multiplayer games. Whether you’re looking for couch co-op comradery or fierce online action, we’ve got great some great picks for you this month.

We couldn’t contain our excitement for Drawn To Death, so we let the news out early that this will be a launch title for PS Plus in April. From the acclaimed developer David Jaffe, Drawn To Death challenges the shooter genre with unconventional gameplay mechanics that bring this third-person shooter/brawler to life. The game takes place entirely inside the pages of a high school kid’s notebook where hand-drawn characters and levels come to life.

We’ve also got the excellent couch co-op title Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime. Pilot a neon battleship through a colorful galaxy by yourself or with up to three others. Through teamwork, triumph over the evil forces of Anti-Love, rescue kidnapped space-bunnies, and avoid a vacuumy demise. Protip: you can also play this game online with others through PS4’s Share Play feature.

Full lineup:

  • Drawn To Death, PS4
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, PS4
  • Invizimals: the Lost Kingdom, PS3
  • Alien Rage – Extended Edition, PS3
  • 10 Second Ninja, PS Vita (crossbuy with PS4)
  • Curses ‘n Chaos, PS Vita (crossbuy on PS4)

Enjoy April’s lineup, and we’ll see you online!

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  • Wow what a horrible offering this month. Too many useless Indie games, 99% of PS+ would rather have any “real” game from 2015-present over all this indie crap. Sony needs to take a cue from MS GWG and get back to giving out games people will actually enjoy or they will keep losing even more ps+ subs.

  • Guys dont panic! Im pretty sure this is an AF joke xD!… it gotta be!

  • Still nothing for the PSVR. What the hell I get one for?

    • PSVR is still relatively new. Not a lot of people still own the headset since a lot of retailers are out of stock. You’ll be seeing a lot more games coming soon for it, especially Farpoint coming out in May! Patience is a virtue my friend.

  • Yawn, another joke month.

    Thanks for increasing the price $10 a year. I am glad it is going to more terrible games every month.

  • God PSN free games are garbage these days.Gold kicks PSN’s ass tbh.

    Every since PSN became a paid subscription it’s gone downhill.

    I love my PS4 but might stop paying for the Network.Not been worth the money at all.

    • *Ever since

    • How many games have you bought on here using the Playstation Plus discounts? Me personally I have saved at least a thousand dollars in the past year so even though the free games arent always good (they do have some great games from time to time) the discounts alone are worth the price of admission

    • I’ve barely downloaded any of the free gmaes or discounted games on PSN.

      I’ve had my PS4 since day 1 and I’ve probably downloaded 3 games off PSN…….the free games are generally poor.

    • If your smart and look around you can get the PSN discounted games cheaper online or in stores.

  • When are we getting Killzone 2 on ps plus?

  • I don’t see anything worth downloading. It’s not like I have the spare storage space to waste on these anyways. And no, I shouldn’t have to upgrade to Pro just to have more memory.

  • Xbox Live Gold members will receive four new free games – two on Xbox One and two on Xbox 360 – as part of the Games with Gold program. You can play both Xbox 360 titles on your Xbox One with Backward Compatibility. On Xbox One, Xbox Live Gold members can download Ryse: Son of Rome for free during the month of April. The Walking Dead: Season 2 will be available as a free download from April 16th to May 15th. On Xbox 360, starting Saturday, April 1st, Darksiders will be free for Xbox Live Gold members through April 15th. Then on April 16th, Xbox Live Gold Members can download Assassin’s Creed Revelations for free through April 30th.

  • This looks just plain terrible compared to what asia region gets. Just this year they got Tales of Zestiria, God Of War, Until Dawn, Alienation for ps plus, and now for 12 month subscription you get FFXV, and if you have ps plus Disgaea 5 for free :D. I just have no idea why there is this big of a difference in regions.

  • Pretty good month. I’m still playing a ton of Disc Jam and we get another completely new get this month too? Pretty cool of PS Plus if you ask me. Thanks Sony, us people who work hard for our money won’t complain about free games you honestly don’t even have to give us, you could charge for an online subscription just to play online and people would be forced to buy it. So thank you for hooking us up every month!

  • Never heard of any of these, not saying they shoukd release old AAA game every month, but could we at least gets recognizable games

  • I used to be in the frame of mind that I wanted to cancel because of all the lackluster free games they offer, which yes they are lackluster compared to what they used to give out when you didnt need Playstation Plus to play online for those that come on here month after month and praise them is just crazy, but the amount of value you get from all the discounts they offer on games throughout the year is what is the valuable piece of being a PS+ member. I have saved probably over a thousand dollars on all the discounts of sometimes up to 90% off this year alone.

    • Not much value with the ps plus member discounts in my country.

      This is the first month in the ps store that discounted games (Uncharted,Rachet & Clanck)
      are cheaper than in brick stores in my country.

      Normally PS Store is way overpriced

      Since PS4 release disc versions in stores where on average 10-20 euro’s cheaper
      than a digital version in the ps store (even with discounts or ps store sales)

      PS Store keeps games on the release price way to long………

      For example Battlefield 1 is still 70 euro in the ps store
      in brick stores the games is 48 euro for months now

  • There was a game on iOS like 4 years ago just like Curses and Chaos
    Lover is looks just like Nom Nom Galaxy

    I think they should give us a choice:

    1 AAA title 2 AA Titles or 3 Indies

    cause this is annoying at this point

  • I’ve had the Playstation for about a year now and i’ve subscribed to PS plus since the beginning. I subscribed not because i wanted the free games but because i wanted to play Online. That’s the main reason why there are subscriptions for Xbox and PS. The free games are just a way to promote it uknow like a way for them to say thank you for subscribing, here have some freebie. I bet you would still buy you PS plus to play games like Battlefield 1 or COD or Fifa(some of the main reasons why we buy PS+ is to play these types of multiplayer games). And for the 1 year i had the PS+ which i spent about $50 SGD, for one year, i got back more than what i wanted. I got to play online, i got games like Rocket League and Gravity Remastered and God Of War and Tales Of Zestiria and NBA 2K16 and not to even mention the fact that the PS+ discounts makes games like Plants vs Zombie Garden Warfare $9 SGD. $9 SGD for a game that is $15 SGD without the PS+ discount but with original discount. Thats amazing value to me. Im sure i’ve got more great titles like Destiny. All in all for the $50 SGD i spent for the whole year i’d say i got back more than what i deserved because what i deserved was just to play Online.

    • I also got Until Dawn and Alienation FOR FREE courtesy of PS+ and what makes it more better is that there was this deal where you get free games for renewing you ps+ for another year and i bought another 12Months amd got TITANFALL 2 FOR FREE. Same amount of money spent for PS+ yet i get all these amazing titles. I wonder why people still hate sony for..

  • More garbage. Thanks Sony, at least you’re consistent.

  • I rather not have any free games at all !!!!!

    It’ great to have free games, but i’m really tiered to see Indie Games every mouth for all of us that have a PS4.
    Like it was already sad here every mouth, that Sony doesn’t have to give anything, the free games is a marketing way to keep PS users subscriptions alive.

    If not for this you probably only get a subscription if you see a have that was on sale, or only get a subscription to play online until you got bored of that particular game, apart that you call always buy a game on media.

    If you look a the game list every mouth, you ill see that is better to have a PS3 with a PS+, than a PS4… lot’s of good games came out for the PS3, this mouth is another example of that. I’m getting a lot of good games that i din’t have on my PS3…. but i bought a PS4 for a reason.

    Whats really bothers me is the title release of Indie Games that i have on my Apple Store our Google Store, some of them for free.
    If i what to play Indie games i would buy and play them on my iPhone/iPad, not for a advanced console like PS4.

    In comparison with xBox Gold, Playstation have to step up is game….. not only on the mouth game release.

  • gabege agin alI ask is 1 game worth dowloding a month my opein theres only 6 out of 12 months a year that I get anthing woth downloading I don’t need AAA tidles I jest need decent games and like some I am not an indi fan and that’s most of what gets put out and yes I no I cant spell so don’t bother commenting on that

  • Honestly I don’t think it’s so as much being entitled as us really wanting the service to warrant the amount of money spent…we’re not saying we want AAA titles every month..but we are saying that the monthly installments are getting worse..and I put my entire PS library on that..it’s to the point where I don’t even look at the free games anymore just use the PSN for net coverage and the occasional sale..that’s sad when at launch this thing was pegged as some sort of community..you had your off months with PS3 but it was never this bad..if I wanted to play Coleco vision games..I’d go in my closet and blow the dust off the console..somewhere in this exchange Sony forgot the customer..that’s the real issue

  • I’ve played Drawn to Death when I was in the beta and it’s really fun! I love the art style and how you can use the kid’s ability against enemies online. Thank you Sony and thanks to David Jaffe and his team for this amazing and creative game.

  • look xbox one game 4 aaa game for 1 month

    We are not stupid Sony Drawn To Death was supposed to be free for everyone, but you’ve done with politics

    sorry for bad eng

  • Is this what we pay 60 USD in a year for? Really, Sony? Now that we can’t escape paying it, you throw us this kind of garbage? Not even some good PS3 older, full price games?

  • wow!!! another lineup of garbage games.

  • these games are bad

  • To me, PlayStation plus is a must for playing online with my friends, the free monthly games are just a plus;)
    There are months (yes, quite alot actually) when i do’nt even download any of the games.
    There are no good enough games to have and to hold, though there are plenty of indie jewels to choose from!
    Sometimes they think they were trying to give us pretty good games, but nothing i remember.
    But still i won’t complain about it cause i bought crap games also… One can only hope that they just might find a real gem in the
    midst of the sandstorms of crappy, boring or plain childish games. Yet this drawn to death thingy caught my eye, so i’ll get my controller next week and try to get my eye back;) Big shoutouts to all you players out there, game on!

  • Yeah, it’s 5 dollars a month, and yeah! Not many games you could get for 5 bucks. However counting this coming month, will Mark the third month where there wasn’t anything worth playing on ps4. So that’s 15 I wouldn’t have spent. And there’s usually some decent 15 dollar games on Sallie in the store, or used copies of games… plus, we can keep them without being bound to a subscription.

    If the games were yours even if you cancelled, then yea. I would agree that complaining is stupid. It would be like a loot crate. It’s a gamble. But considering that the games are linked to the service, and we are only getting to use them as long as we shovel money toward them(kinda like PlayStation now) it wouldn’t hurt to have good titles! Nobody would be happy with PlayStation now if it was just a collection of cheap Indie games.

  • This is even more abysmal than usual. One has to wonder just how high Sony’s horse has become.

    And no, for the record, crappy games have zero value whatsoever. Talk about not knowing a thing about value.

  • THIS IS NOT FAIR.

    I’m not gonna compare the lineup to XBOX, i know a lot of guys did, but different company, different strategies. I’m gonna compare US server to HK server on the Plus Line up.

    Here are some highlights of HK server line up:

    1. Jan Free games.
    God of war 3 remastered
    Goat simulator
    Alienation
    and the other 3 PS4 games.

    2. Feb Free games
    Until Dawn

    and the other 5 PS4 games.

    3. March Free games
    Resident Evil Umbrella Corp

    and the other 6 PS4 games.

    4. April Free games
    Life is strange

    and the other 3 PS4 games
    (Will probably add more free games in the mid of the month)

    So you probably can see the differences on the quality of free games. Do you wanna know the price they paid for the Plus membership? I don’t wanna give you an exact amount, because of different purchasing power. But do you know that how many times HK sever launch PLUS membership discount promotion? 30% off on the membership fee!!!!!

    Look at the pathetic US plus membership, do we have any improvements after the price increase? discounts? better free games?

    For those that reply to me “Just quit if you don’t like it”, trust me, I already did.

  • THIS IS NOT FAIR.
    I’m not gonna compare the lineup to XBOX, i know a lot of guys did, but different company, different strategies. I’m gonna compare US server to HK server on the Plus Line up.
    Here are some highlights of HK server line up:
    1. Jan Free games.
    God of war 3 remastered
    Goat simulator
    Alienation
    and the other 3 PS4 games.
    2. Feb Free games
    Until Dawn
    and the other 5 PS4 games.
    3. March Free games
    Resident Evil Umbrella Corp
    and the other 6 PS4 games.
    4. April Free games
    Life is strange
    and the other 3 PS4 games
    (Will probably add more free games in the mid of the month)
    So you probably can see the differences on the quality of free games. Do you wanna know the price they paid for the Plus membership? I don’t wanna give you an exact amount, because of different purchasing power. But do you know that how many times HK sever launch PLUS membership discount promotion? 30% off on the membership fee!!!!!
    Look at the pathetic US plus membership, do we have any improvements after the price increase? discounts? better free games?
    For those that reply to me “Just quit if you don’t like it”, trust me, I already did.

  • I don’t get the ‘the games are more than the price of Plus combined, so you should be happy’ mentality. If you pay for Plus for the games, okay, but if you’re just paying for Plus for the online multiplayer (which should’ve never required a paid subscription in the first place and is why I never owned a 360), why should you be happy that you’re getting games you’ll never play in exchange for being forced to buy something that should be free?

    I wouldn’t care what the Plus games were if online multiplayer was still free, but since I’m forced to pay for that, of course I’ll be unhappy if I don’t get anything out of it. I don’t expect big, AAA titles every month, but Xbox One has been great with their Gold games recently, while Plus has given me maybe two or three already-cheap games that I’ve enjoyed in the past year.

    And no, Rapturesassassin, I wasn’t excited for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime when it was free on Gold for Xbox users. Just adding that now, so you don’t feel the need to reply to me, like you did to everyone else who had anything negative to say about Plus or this lineup.

    • Hmm funny…if you’re paying for Plus just to be able to play online then you shouldn’t care about the games at all moreover it really gives you lil to no reason to complain about the games cuz if you’re paying ONLY for the online then the games are simply a bonus for you.

      The majority of whiners are people who don’t wanna buy games and expect the next AAA launch title to be on Plus which is laughable.

  • meh. i enjoy this month. again. entitled gamers everywhere these days and then when you disagree with them you get called a fanboy. modern gamers are awful pathetic people.

    • Yeah, they are, because far too many of them will pay any price for anything, if it’s spoonfed to them well enough. Those would be the same gamers who commonly have no idea what the concept of self entitlement actually is.

  • I’ve had ps+ since nearly the beginning and I’m not going to cancel anytime soon because I still have a lot of ps+ in my backlog I want to play but it’s been like a year since there’s been a game I’m excited about, I mean there’s a lot of little games that look enjoyable that I’ll hopefully get to eventually but month after month I’m just getting this game looks okay vibe at best, asia is even getting some good games lately, throw us some Japanese stuff already where are the jrpgs.

  • Wow Lovers in a Dangerous Space Time looks crazy good…I don’t remember it so I guess I never heard of it,really glad to see it on Plus or I may had missed it.

  • Please please start doing some research on what games Playstation plus members want or do the gaming poll again because this is getting ridiculous. Every month it’s the same old boring indie games or games with an irritating experimental art style. It’s not the end of the world for me because I buy many games and always have something to play but I’m paying for a service that has way to many issues. Online play should be perfect for the subscription price but it is no better than PS3. The so called ‘FREE’ games you offer I have no interest in so why am I paying for a subscription? Maybe separate the subscription and charge a cheaper price for people who have no interest in the free indie games and full price for those who want to support them?

  • What ever happened to getting real games for the PlayStation for free in the past we had games like border lands one and two for free and we even got the DMC remake for free why can’t we get full PS4 games or at least ps3 games for free on my ps3 I still get full games from ps plus but on PS4 we get this kind of stuff

  • Change the title!!!
    PS Plus: Free Indie Games for April 2017
    By the way, do that on May, July, etc….
    Give us some old games for free, but stop give us indie games every month!
    I’m not complain of how much I spend on subscription vs how much those games worth, I’m complain about all those indies every month!

  • Meh, again!

  • And again the cheapest rich people on the planet. Sony could care less about its customers.. so i will care less about ps4… I will get a psvr Used…I will never buy another sony product NEW again…ALL LITTLE KID GAMES THAT SUCK…ALWAYS…XBOX would have been a better choice….

  • Another month with mediocre games. Instead of six games, they could just give you ONE good game. But no, it’s month after month of bad games. After almost a year with PS Plus, there’s only two games that I kept installed on my PS4, NBA 2k16 and Resident Evil Remake.

  • Only interested in “Alien Rage” this month. I tried the demo a while ago on PS3 and I must say it’s a great game but way too hard for me. I’d like to watch someone else play it, though. Sad things is, I was getting destroyed while playing on Easy Mode. ;)

  • Has anyone else noticed that Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom isn’t even available in NA? I sincerely hope we’ll get a different game since we’ll otherwise get the short end of the stick…:/

  • Why aren’t we told ahead of time what’s coming to PS Now like we are the PS+ games? I hate waiting until the day they actually show up.

  • pretty disappointing line up this month even ps3 doesn’t really have much going for it don’t get me wrong I’m not expecting tons of AAA titles i understand they cant just give games away all the time it would destroy their profits but how about some of the older hd remakes? for instance destroy all humans! or the older gta remakes or warriors, theres also the original uncharted games dont put all of them up for grabs just like uncharted 1 or something. otherwise I usually don’t complain since they are free and the ps4 doesn’t have a massive library yet due to limited game releases so indie titles are easier to give away but i also feel like we get a lot of the same indie titles, like bro force was awesome it was different and enjoyable but then after that we just got the same rinse and repeat top down shooters or rpgs it gets boring reeeeeeal fast.

  • Welp this sucks. Atleast some fps fans will be pleased and anyone who likes crappy indie games. It’s seriously lackluster against the xbox gold lineup. Seriously, who in their right mind would use that game as a counter argument agianst someone disliking the ps+ lineup and saying that the xbox gold lineup was better? Also bear in mind, THESE GAMES AREN’T EXACTLY FREE! We get forced to pay this if we want to access online modes in games. I would definitely get a much cheaper version without the games instead of games I don’t like every month.

  • @nvchad2 and @atherworld I gotta say I agree with these 2 and others that say the similar sort of thing, I pay £40 ($53approx) for my plus and yes it would be nice for AAA titles every month but it’s just not realistic, it cost me around $4.50 per month for 6 games as I use all 3 machine, some months the games are crap some are great. The simple answer is give up playstation and go to Xbox. Ps+ is good value for money and in games I get discount on and dlc’s I save more than I pay anyway making my games free, can’t get a better price than that.

    • Say speaking of discounts, I sure do remember when Plus actually did give you extra discounts on everything in a sale, instead of maybe​a third of what’s on sale during a week. Yeah, that extra cost sure is worth it alright….

  • These games are a joke. I’m 35 and I don’t appreciate games for kids in my PS+ subscription. Drawn to death however isn’t a game for kids – too much blood. Who is it for then? Not for me. My PS+ membership ends on 7 April and I will NOT renew it. Also, I recently had a chance to play PES17 on PS4 and then on PC. Not only PS4 consumes more power (100W more per hour than PC), it looks and plays much worse and I’m not only talking about 30FPS vs 60FPS. There are too few PS4 exclusives to play – I almost played through all of them. This is why I’m selling my PS4.
    Frag you Sony, frag U!

  • Keep ’em. The small amount of bandwidth it takes to download these games is more valuable to me than these games.

  • Sigh. Yet another wasted month. Here’s hoping for something worthwhile next month.

  • I really never care for the free games, I got enough last year to be happy though. I really only keep ps plus for the amazing deals and of course the online play of my games. If i get a game I like then thats cool, if not well oh well who cares. Not going tonlie though, I would think it would be pretty cool to get some old favorites ported to the ps4 and given out.

  • Not a fantastic month but far from the worst month we have ever had.

    Would I prefer more good AAA games, especially on the now irrelevant PS3 which you would think theyd be able to give more AAA games from since those games have pretty much already sold all they are going to sell? Absolutely and I’d be lying if I said that some months didn’t really disappoint me but this month is just fine by me.

    A brand new fun looking game in Drawn to Death is more than enough to interest me this month, but I am also looking forward to trying Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime with my friends :) again not the best month we have ever gotten but far from the worst and its okay to be excited or disappointed depending on your tastes but don’t be a **** about it. Don’t forget that you aren’t the only Plus member in the world and not every month can appeal to you especially if you have limited tastes (which judging by some of the complaints is a fair bit of people).

  • Lately the Plus games have been indie trash for real. Last month sucked horribly I’m sorry. This month I’m been excited for Drawn to Death the rest not so much. I’m not asking for new AAA games however a good racing or RPG would be great. I don’t expect to be given new games still on market but something by a great developer like Square Enix or Capcom would be a great change as opposed to getting all these indie titles or the crap that is LBP 3. Worst game of thay series. I have a XBONE and they do give way better games on GWG. That’s the only thing that Sony lacks. Other than that the PS4 is amazing. Just done like Sony starting PS Plus with amazing AAA and AA games with the promise it only gets better to getting games that I won’t even download because they suck. Hell give me a indie game like Limbo or Journey even and I’d be happy. They just give us what nobody is paying for.

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