Update: The January 2017 PS+ titles are now live in North America and Europe.
Original Story: If you haven’t grabbed them yet, today’s your last chance to get the December 2016 PlayStation Plus free games before the January 2017 titles enter the Instant Game Collection.
As a reminder, here’s the games expiring on January 3, which you can still grab through the PlayStation Store in North America and Europe:
- Invisible, Inc (PS4)
- Stories: The Path of Destinies (PS4)
- Hyper Void (PS4, PS3)
- Tiny Troopers Joint Ops (PS4, PS3, PS Vita)
- Color Guardians (PS4, PS Vita)
- VVVVVV (PS Vita)
Unless they’ve adjusted the schedule, Sony will rotate the PS+ games early in the morning in Europe and at 8am PT/11am ET in Noth America.
Here’s what’s being added to the PlayStation Plus Instant Game Collection tomorrow, January 3, complete with their download size according to the PlayStation Store, which doesn’t include the size of post-launch updates:
- Azkend 2: The World Beneath (PS4, PS Vita) – 94MB, 153MB
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered (PS4, PS Vita) – 1.7GB, 2.7GB
- The Swindle (PS4, PS3, PS Vita) – 229MB, 1.1GB, 1.1GB
- This War of Mine: The Little Ones (PS4) – 1.1GB
- Titan Souls (PS4, PS Vita) – 323MB, 594MB
- BlazeRush (PS3) – 326MB
Which January PS+ title will you play first?
Best of 2016 Game Awards - PlayStation Plus Game
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Best of 2016 Game Awards - PlayStation Plus Game
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Helldivers
Helldivers brings a fun and intensity to cooperative play that I have not had in a long time. Single players may want to skip this one, but if you have some friends to sit down with, either on the couch or via the PSN, I highly recommend getting your squad ready to defend Super Earth from impending doom. Just watch out for that turret.
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Gone Home
This PC game almost didn't make it to consoles, but thankfully, it did! It's a different beat from the 8-bit indie games that people are used to, but that's a good thing.
Gone Home's story is second to none and rewards those patient gamers out there.
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Siren: Blood Curse
This 2008 title saw a re-release on PS+ this year much to the delight of horror fans everywhere. While some of its gameplay mechanics might feel outdated compared to more recent games in the genre, there's no denying that the atmosphere, tension and just scare factor is still as frightening now as it was back then.
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Journey
Journey is minimalist to allow you to fill in those gaps with your own emotion and experience — to apply your personal situation and make the story your own. It’s a simple beauty, but one that shines brightly and now has the opportunity to be played by millions more thanks to its stunning upgrade to PS4, with beautiful lighting and environments that impress. Whether you’ve played Journey before, or never had the opportunity, do yourself a favor and make your way to the top of the mountain on PS4. You may find more on the way to the peak than you expected at the outset.
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Resident Evil Remastered
If you want some good, classic scares, then pick up this great Resident Evil remaster as soon as you can. $20 might sound like a lot for what is really an old game with shiny new “packaging,” but with multiple endings, the best visuals possible, and that iconic mansion setting, you’re always going to want to come back for more. Whether you want to relive the nightmares of your youth or experience a classic for the first time, this version of Resident Evil is an easy recommendation to real survival horror fans.
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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
You already know if you want to buy in on this experience. If you’re looking for a gory, bloody, violent apocalypse, well, there are already a myriad of other titles to choose from. But if you’re looking for an interesting method of storytelling full of drama, then you will want to check out Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture. This is a video game as a piece of literature. Some may call it art, but I like to think gaming has evolved beyond such a contemporary definition. The Chinese Room had a story to tell, and they have done so in such a unique fashion that I eagerly await their next adventure.
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Grim Fandango: Remastered
Like watching a classic old movie, Grim Fandango Remastered feels like a hearkening back to the golden days of gaming, when PC adventure games ruled and games didn’t have difficulty settings so easy that it seems like the game is playing itself. This is as much a history lesson as it is entertainment, lest we forget the roots of great gaming. Sure, the backgrounds and cutscenes are untouched, but remember the fit everyone threw when they edited the original Star Wars trilogy too much (Han shot first…)? Grim Fandango Remastered has been put together with care as a passion project from Tim Schafer, and is sure to delight both players new to the game and long time players of Grim Fandango and the LucasArts graphic puzzle adventure genre. Perhaps most important to this release will be the potential effects that bringing this game back into the limelight will have on the future development of adventure titles, and the thought of a merging of great classics and new technology really excites me.
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And the winner is...
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Winner - Journey
Journey is minimalist to allow you to fill in those gaps with your own emotion and experience — to apply your personal situation and make the story your own. It’s a simple beauty, but one that shines brightly and now has the opportunity to be played by millions more thanks to its stunning upgrade to PS4, with beautiful lighting and environments that impress. Whether you’ve played Journey before, or never had the opportunity, do yourself a favor and make your way to the top of the mountain on PS4. You may find more on the way to the peak than you expected at the outset.
