Sony has announced its January PlayStation Plus lineup for those of us in its Extra and Premium tiers.
Subscribers will soon be able to get their hands on the following games:
- God of War Ragnarök (PS4, PS5)
- Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS4, PS5)
- Fallen Atlas: Sand Reign (PS5)
- SD Gundam Battle Alliance (PS4, PS5)
- Sayonara Wild Hearts (PS4)
- ANNO: Mutation (PS4, PS5)
- Orcs Must Die 3 (PS4, PS5)
- Sleeping Citizen (PS4, PS5)
- Poker Club (PS4)
The above games will be available to download starting January 21 for all PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members. Meanwhile, those on the Premium tier of the service will also be able to play the following games as part of their subscription.
- Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings (PS4, PS5)
- Medieval 2 (PS4, PS5)
So what about the games themselves? We really liked the sequel God of War Ragnarök.
“Like its heroes, God of War: Ragnarök learns to love itself for what it really is: gigantic, excessive and wonderfully absurd,” our Chris wrote in Eurogamer's God of War: Ragnarök review.
Another highlight is Citizen Sleeper. “The true magic of Citizen Sleeper, which occasionally turns subtext into text, lies in the boundless warmth of its characters and the humanity of its own design,” reads our 2022 Citizen Sleeper review.
To find out more, our Bertie recently spoke to the game's creator, Gareth Damian Martin, about the pressure of success and the upcoming sequel Citizen Sleeper 2.
Then we have Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, perhaps something to enjoy before Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. We praised Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name's “absolutely fantastic combat system” upon its release, however, we were left wondering if this was a story that really needed to be told.
“This is another entertaining, idiosyncratic, action-packed game for the Yakuza series, but it feels like Like a Dragon Gaiden needs to do more to justify its undermining of Kiryu's perfect send-off in Yakuza 6,” our three-star review reads. .
As for Premium, it may not be Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but there's the Staff of Kings to tide you over before Bethesda's latest version of the fedora-wearing professor arrives on PlayStation 5 later this year.
“The Staff of Kings certainly has all the ingredients for a great action adventure, but somewhere along the line the team ended up making possibly the most forgettable Indiana Jones game to date,” reads our 2009 review.
So, is there anything that catches your attention?
For a full list of games available on Sony's subscription service, be sure to check out our PlayStation Plus guide here.