Another collection of excellent games joins PlayStation Plus this May, and you’ve come to the right place for details!
Let’s begin with a fan-favorite game with a crazy colorful art style: Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition on PS4. Is that title a mouthful? Sure! A mouthful of delicious hand-to-hand combat! Bask in Guacamelee’s mix of platforming, puzzle solving, and exquisite video game humor.
Also up for grabs on PS4: Ether One. This new, first-person puzzle game tasks you with restoring the broken minds of the mentally ill through surreal puzzles. Can you unravel their tangled lives and also find answers to your own desperate questions?
Other games this month include the critically acclaimed indie project The Unfinished Swan, solar speed-demon Race the Sun, and the calmly explorative Hohokum, all of which are available on PS4, PS3, and PS Vita. As well as the oddly charming Murasaki Baby, available on PS Vita.
These games will be free for Plus members starting on May 5th. Would you like to know more? Hit the video below, and hear me rant about video games for a few minutes!
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition (PS4)
Free for PS Plus members
This 2D brawler/platformer hybrid is inspired by Mexican folklore and has a vivid art style to match. Explore a huge world, learn the robust fighting system, and enjoy some drop-in, drop-out co-op.
Ether One (PS4)
Free for PS Plus members
This haunting, first-person puzzler tasks you with restoring the minds of the mentally ill by solving complex puzzles and sewing together the frayed strands of the patient’s lives. Be warned: not everything is as it seems.
The Unfinished Swan (PS4 | PS3 | PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
Developer Giant Sparrow made big waves with this project thanks to its astounding art style and thought-provoking gameplay. Will you help find a fitting end to this fairy tale? Experience a breath-taking story filled with delightful twists.
Race the Sun (PS4 | PS3 | PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
This minimalist racing game forces you to compete against the setting sun in what is both a deeply calming and nail-biting session. That may sound like a contradiction, but it’s true!
Hohokum (PS4 | PS3 | PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
A supremely relaxing game that’s bursting at the seams with personality. Explore a crazy, colorful world, meet new friends, and just let go as you listen to the incredible soundtrack by a collection of talented artists.
Murasaki Baby (PS Vita)
Free for PS Plus members
A strange puzzle game with an eerie atmosphere. Players guide Baby through a nightmarish landscape in search of home. It’s cute, and also a little weird.
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I know this will probably in the minority of the comments, but as someone who has not purchased any of these games, I look forward to trying all of them (don’t have a vita, so almost all of them).
Great lineup this month.. was really hoping for Drive Club Plus Edition, but I am betting that will happen soon…
So now that PS Plus is required it looks like Sony feels they can just put small indie titles up and don’t have to work on getting former AAA stuff anymore. no need to show real value anymore when people essentially have to pay for the service anymore.
Guess it was foolish of me to expect better of Sony.
Wow, another collection of junk this month. My Plus sub has been expired for a good year or more now, and I’ve been looking for a reason to renew ever since and I haven’t seen a single reason to renew all this time!!
Will you ever start to include actual full AAA PS3-games anymore??! It’s about time for games like Last of Us, Beyond Two Souls, GoW Ascension and other GOOD games like that to make their way to Plus soon…
People wouldn’t complain as much about the non-retail games if the balance weren’t so lopsided. Of the 30 PS+ games for the first five months of 2015, there have been 6 retail games versus 24 indie/download-only games. The situation is even worse if you play games on PC, as many of these indie games have been available for months and for $1 or less. I realize it’s much easier to get the indie games on PS+, but a better balance would certainly be welcome.
WTF is a Hohokum? Is it a creature?
yawn
Damn, I already got most of these! Oh well… Can’t win ’em all.
Very disappointed sony I atleast expect 1 on disc game not made by some random indie person
bring better titles at least stuff ive heard of
the games r ok that u give us but they hardly last a week for me
Not a good month for me, I miss the days PS Plus give us games like Tomb Raider, Metro, Bioshock, etc. I didn’t renew my membership, instead got XBox Live Gold, they are giving Dark Souls. PS Plus need to step up.
@204 yeah im shocked they haven’t gave us God Of War Ascension that game is atleast reasonable with the low cost it is now id expect them to say take its not making us money anyway
Stoked on the cross buys! Excited to check a few of these out that I wouldn’t have otherwise paid for. Thank you, sony
Good looking list. Have been interested in unfinished swan but wouldn’t pay for it even when it went on sale, but now I will have a chance to try it out.
Really excited for guacamelee!
Sad that all the games are indies, but sometimes the indies turn out to be great games in their own right (binding of Isaac, spelunky)
I’m also very happy with the number of cross platform/PS4 games as well as the many titles that will work on my brand spanking new Vita :)
It does mean I will be needing to upgrade my 8gb card now though :( bc it just isn’t going to be enough with these 4 new titles.
I don’t mind indies. but I do miss the PS3 days when PS Plus games actually held my attention and I got to play gems like Sleeping Dogs and Spec Ops: The Line, wish my PS4 would get love like that
We dont get one aaa?
Dont get me wrong i’m all for indies but cmon
usually atleast ps3 gets a real game
wow what a piece of ****… the fake leak was better with knack and need for speed
I can’t believe the comments pretending this is a good lineup. This is terrible. A handful of rinky dink indie games. Thanks for nothing. Not going to pay for ps plus again when they just release this crap with it lol, give me a break.
I recently re-instated my ps+ sub upon getting a PS4 and I am thrilled with the selections for May! These all look like outstanding games that I am legitimately excited to play! Keep it up, Sony. I, for one, am very satisfied!
What a load of ****. I like indie games but just for once it would be nice to see a AAA game included.
beyond!
What a load of ****. I like indie games but just for once it would be nice to see a AAA game included.
Stupid moderation or filtering system. If i want to swear or express my dissatisfaction in this manner i will.
Wait. So people would rather get “AAA” games like Knack than quality “indie” games? I honestly wish people would care less about the budget, size of development team, and marketing budget. What if we just downloaded the games, pressed start, and see what happens next?
Good lineup! But guys, we pay a yearly subscription for access to these games. They are most certainly NOT free!
Great month!!!!!!! Been waiting for Guac, Race, Hohokrum, and Unfinished! Whoo!
I love the fact about having 5 free PS4 titles. I’m tired of my current games, and this month I will have a lot of time to spend playing. Everyone should give a change to Indies. I have played really nice games over this releases on PS Plus.
C’mon sony this isn’t funny anymore ! At least give us some GOOD ps4 sales.
Five games for PS4? Awesome
Sony please, every line up every month creating disagreement and making players (Ps+ members) argue, fight and hate each other. Why you can’t give a good line up which will bring peace into this community and to our minds.
I think it’s time they give out Knack.
You guys should definitely up your AAA game since E3 is near.
See what I did there? I’ll see myself out.
On a serious note, good month for me. 4 games for the Vita. Woohoo!
@226 they are adding few more extra “waiit for it…” or even more making it much much much longer than needed.
Dear playstation:
Since the launch of the ps4 the Playstation plus lineup has been getting worse and worse.
Yes you like indies and etc, but we’ve only had a tripple A like once ?
I mean come on the xb is mimicking your service and they’re beating you at it at this point.
stop trying to push indie stuff so hard and look at your actual core gamer base, most people would like decent games and a indie, like for example:
Evolve (to new I know)
and as an indie (the binding of isaac)
By combining games like these you hit both spots of your base, because me and almost 10 friends of mine are dropping ps+ cause of its weak selection of games since the last year or so.
so please get back on your game.
This blog needs the upvote/downvote option like the EU ps blog, so I can downvote very comment that says,” thanks sony for this great lineup” and does not use /s at the end
When will this indie BS end? Please give us some real games
Look all indies can we get a triple A title already please! You see people I on here saying that Xbox gets one game and we get 6, but xbox’s game is triple A. Quality over Quantity, all I’m saying. Where is Killzone Shadow fall and knack, and can we get a good game for Vita, it’s been about 6 months since we have
Not implying these are bad games, but next month is We season so they’re probably saving the big guns for until then.
Sweet!!! these are all the downloadables i been starring at but just haven’t had the time to play. Win!!!
Dreadful…I’ve been a devout Sony gamer since the PS1. I’ve had every console you’ve released including the handhelds. I use a Sony headset and a Sony tv. Since the release of the PS4 I’ve watched this company start turning into just another greedy cash grabber.
Those of you saying I should be grateful for the free games, for the record, they aren’t free. I pay $50 a year for this only to have these cheap games shoved in my face. We shouldn’t just accept it and call anyone who disagrees a hater. As the consumer, we need to tell Sony that we don’t want these cheap games, that’s not what we signed on for.
Great month!
I don’t know why there’s so much hate for indies. Not all indies are created equal, just like not all AAA games are created equal. Guacamelee, for example, is amazing with high production values that rival many AAA games.
Soooo many awesome games this months!
I’m sorry Sony this is the weakest month you’ve ever put together. I feel like these are just free smart phone titles. No AAA in the list. Indie certainly doesn’t mean these games are bad, but for all 3 consoles to not have one descent retail, and just digital releases is nearly laughable. Hope june is better. This makes my soon expiring Plus membership a hard sell for me to renew. Try next time y’all
very bad ps3 games lol…
+ Spacerac on April 29th, 2015 at 6:00 pm said:
Not implying these are bad games, but next month is E3 season so they are probably saving the big guns for until then.
Daggum autocorrect.
Great month. I can’t wait to try Hokum.
Seriously Sony, THERE IS a reason for complaining. Yes, we like cross-buy, but I think it’s time for an AAA in ps4 already. I mean, even ps3 did not get any AAA? Why is the PS Plus quality decreasing so much? This is the first month I really complain. Last months were not great but at least had better games. Come on, give us something, make the ps plus worth as it was in 2013 for ps3 and start giving some better games on PS4 as well, please, I ask as a ps2, ps3, ps4 and ps vita owner.
Garbage garbage garbage. Plus has merely become a place for sony to dump crappy indie games down our throats. I am beginning to think they truly do not give a crap that people are sick of indie games. The reason I have yet to get a ps4 is because all it has is indie crap and a handful of good games for it. I will be letting my plus expire this coming month. I
plus has gotten worse and worse since the ps4 came out. Because they no longer had to offer good games since they followed xbox and required people to have it to play online. Years ago they said they would not require such. Sad that money means more to them than keeping they loyal customers some what content. I may need to look into xbox1 since xbox followed what sony use to do and offers free games now with their service. Plus I think you get to keep the games not just a rental like plus is. Shame on you sony.
These games don’t even look interesting to me Im never a big fan of these kinds of games especially puzzle or 2D games looks like I won’t be downloading anything from this lineup I’ll only download wolfenstein old blood sorry Sony I really wished this month included a AAA game I hope next month will actually bring at least 2 AAA games and this month you should’ve bring in wolfenstein the new order cause the old blood comes out on the 5th I may get hate on this comment but that’s just my opinion no harm towards Sony intended
Reading most of these post made me realize something. That being no one from sony reads these. If they did they would see that most people don’t want any more indie crap. Even the people who loke indie games are tired of it. Only a few vita scrubs care about indie games. Wake the flock up sony.
Too much indie games :/
HAHAHA…I guess even Social Media Specialist, Ryan Clements who posted this info is ashamed of what SONY is doing with PS+ line up that he stopped responding to either good or bad comments. I feel you Ryan but it is not your fault. Greedy Sony!
When sony was sued and lost the case in which i fell bad for sony. we were allowed to get games by filling out some papers, but I didnt do that for I dont need stuff that doesnt belong to me or i didnt pay. but for ps+ i did pay for i deserve better treatment. But i didnt know sony was such a greedy.
@202 Rox – Why don’t u just buy Driveclub outright? The game is phenomenal now that weather is added and they worked out all the kinks. You also get a ton of free dlc with a ton of extra trophies. If reviewers re-reviewed Driveclub in it’s current condition it would get a terrific score. The Lambo and China dlc look tasty, I might bite on the season pass. Europeans know racing.