PS Plus: Free Games for January, 2016

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PS Plus: Free Games for January, 2016
Andy Lum Sony Computer Entertainment America

As we look forward to the New Year, we’re excited to share our January 2016 PlayStation Plus lineup with everyone. This month our PS4 games pay homage to a couple classic, fan-favorite titles, while updating the gameplay and graphics to PS4!

Hardware: Rivals makes its exclusive debut on PlayStation Plus. Get behind the wheel of a powerful tank or mobile attack jeep in this arcade-style, vehicle combat game. Inspired by the PS2 classic Hardware: Online Arena, Hardware: Rivals lets you challenge your friends or enter the online multiplayer arena on your own and experience epic vehicular mayhem with multiple maps, game modes, and special events.

If you need a breather from all the vehicle-on-vehicle combat, you can always turn to the twisted Mexican folklore of Grim Fandango Remastered. As Manny Calavera, travel agent for the Department of Death, you’ll guide poor souls to their eternal rest. Crime. Skeletons. Romance. You’ll experience it all in this update to the beloved adventure game.

These PS4 games are free for PlayStation Plus members starting on the first Tuesday of January, and you can find the full list of PlayStation Plus games below.

Full Lineup:

  • Dragon Age: Origins, PS3
  • Grim Fandango Remastered, PS4, PS Vita
  • Hardware: Rivals, PS4
  • Legends of War Patton, PS Vita
  • Medal of Honor Warfighter, PS3
  • Nihilumbra, PS Vita

Before you go, we want your feedback! Please leave us a comment below and tell us what you think of the lineup. Thank you for stopping by.

Until next time! Enjoy.

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1,405 Comments

  • DragonessHera
    December 30, 2015 at 9:51 am PST

    You would have to pay me, and pay me well over $100, to play Dragon Age Origins again. Even when EA gave it away for free on PC, I wouldn’t take it. Whatever, gotta pay for PS+ to play online, just another game I won’t add to my Library.

  • hrfuknstuf
    December 30, 2015 at 9:52 am PST

    After doing some online digging, the general consensus is not to download anything on this list that refers to war…

  • Andrew_Pan248
    December 30, 2015 at 9:53 am PST

    Oh sony come on now .. i’ve bought a ps4 in november and bought ps+ subscription for a year to play sw battlefront wich came with the console . I enjoyed the ps+ games of november especially magicka 2, then i had high expectation for december’s free tittles because of the holydays and all that, but no the games were a total dissappointment .. and now the january games are even worse .. what is wrong with you come on give us some good titles at first i was so excited about all this free games stuff because i didnt know abou it .. but if you are gonna give us this cheap and not cool games everytime better dont really

  • Shoryyuken
    December 30, 2015 at 9:54 am PST

    Really? This is what you show for January 2016? Hardware might be a decent game, I’ll reserve judgment on that. Grim Fandango unfortunately is too niche for most people, I even tried it myself & it’s too archaic to play. Dragon Age Origins is a masterpiece but it’s only on PS4.

    Like seriously Sony, you have all of these free games but only 2 of them I can really play. Why can’t I play the PS3 games on my PS4? Why not? I’m not going to sub to PS NOW unless you implement it into PS PLUS, otherwise it’s pointless. It’s far too expensive. What you guys are doing with games like Final Fantasy VII, Rogue Galaxy & San Andreas is a way better idea.

    Looking at this list, I’m going to try Hardware. That’s it. Everything else I’m either not able to play or won’t. Make your PS4 able to play PS3 games, it’s literally pointless at this point. We all have PS4’s, so make it all playable. If online didn’t require Plus, I doubt a lot of people would have it anymore.

    I love you Sony, I love the PS4 but these PS+ games have been nothing but complete trash for months now. Even December has been terrible. Change it or you’ll lose customers, just my thoughts.

  • TipoDLuffy
    December 30, 2015 at 9:54 am PST

    Ever since the PS4 came out, the only good game on PS+ has been Rocket League, no longer play that. Dragon Age: Origins arrives to the line up 3-4 years too late. PS+, if it wasn’t required to play online on PS4, I wouldn’t be paying for it.

  • matthew1836
    December 30, 2015 at 9:55 am PST

    I’ll download Grim Fandango, I had Medal of Honor Warfighter its garbage, we are not going to get any AAA Titles as long as PS Now is around

  • awesomeninja492
    December 30, 2015 at 9:57 am PST

    Do people not remember that it took YEARS for the PS3 to get a constant flow of AAA games to Plus? The PS4 simply isn’t old enough yet for third party companies to seriously consider putting their titles on Plus. Sure, Killzone or Infamous would be good I guess but I already own those games and they are TWO YEARS OLD. If you really don’t have them yet they’re dirt cheap right now. You can get Shadow Fall used at Gamestop for $10 and Infamous for $20.

    • Reaper527_
      December 30, 2015 at 9:59 am PST

      ” The PS4 simply isn’t old enough yet for third party companies to seriously consider putting their titles on Plus.”

      then why is the x1 getting them?

    • awesomeninja492
      December 30, 2015 at 10:03 am PST

      +Reaper527_
      I don’t know what you are talking about. Xbox, apart from Black Flag, Thief, and Tomb Raider (which they got because of the exclusivity deal for Rise of the Tomb Raider) has been lacking as well. Yes they get Killer Instinct this month but that is a first party game.

    • Reaper527_
      December 30, 2015 at 11:18 am PST

      that’s 3 retail games in the last 6 months for the x1 (and their off months have had big digital only titles such as walking dead, ki, metal gear solid ground zeros). the ps4 got 0 retail games in the last 12 months.

      the “bad” months for the x1 in 2015 were on par with the “good” months for ps4.

  • carolsama1993
    December 30, 2015 at 9:58 am PST

    I’m kinda sad…
    I was expecting good games that i don’t have since i signed the PS+ 5 months ago… i think that the only one that i really enjoyed was FREEDOM WARS (and i don’t have just a Vita)

    At least i bought some games with great discount as a PS+ member… and that’s all :/

    Hope the next month we’ll have a good surprise

  • Reaper527_
    December 30, 2015 at 9:58 am PST

    disappointing start to the new year. grim fandango is great, but it doesn’t make up for the rest of the lineup being so lackluster. ps4 needed grim fandango AND a retail game.

    ps3 got an exceptionally weak lineup with a 6 year old game that has something around $40 worth of (not included) dlc and a generic shooter.

    vita… well, sony is continuing to make it very clear they don’t care about the vita.

    with lineups like this, it’s pretty funny that they said “ea access doesn’t present a good value for our customers”. access has put together a much better list of 2015 offerings than ps+ did, and if this is a sign of things to come, it looks like the same will hold true in 2016.

  • iREVOLTER
    December 30, 2015 at 9:59 am PST

    It was time then PS+ monthly games announcements were exciting, I even played lots of games from the sub alone. Didn’t bothered with purchase, even though I like higher discounts with PS+, I really don’t think its worth the subscription. Though PS4 multiplayer requires it, so if I want to play with friends on PS4 I need it.

    Sony can you make already better deals for monthly PS+ subscription games, its been months since I saw great titles worth playing them from the sub alone. Many titles even if I played them, are not from those “free” PS+ games.

  • Rusty_Paperclips
    December 30, 2015 at 10:01 am PST

    This is really a lame month. I picked up DA when it was five dollars on the store during it’s little “ghost sale” earlier this month when it was five dollars. Maybe I’ll get the urge to download MoH for a marathon session.

  • Lolicorn420Kush
    December 30, 2015 at 10:02 am PST

    Release Demon Souls for PS4 and make it the PS+ game and you’ll sell a million PS4s on that alone.

    These games on Plus now are not exciting, as many have said.

  • Defender4277
    December 30, 2015 at 10:03 am PST

    I just signed up for Playstation plus because a friend assured me that they had good games for free.. I’ve got the games for December, which are just OK.. And now I see this list.

    The PS4 games are a joke in my opinion. The only saving grace is that I don’t own either one, however I don’t think I would ever buy them anyway.

    The PS3 games… Well now. Where do I begin? We have one game on here that’s been out since 2009 and has already been free on PCs origin program.. Yes, I’m talking about Dragon Age.. But hey, it’s a classic and I’ll enjoy playing it again on the big screen. And then we have Medal of Honor? Really guys? What were you thinking? I guess since no one wants to buy this game, you thought it would be a good idea to just give away this slop of a game. The game has received horrible reviews since it came out and has never got better.

    My friend has really let me down on this one, but unfortunately it seems like Sony has let me down even more. Mostly because I expected much much better things from them.

    Hopefully over the next 11 months they will give me a couple of games that are worth my $50 a year for plus. Let hope…

    Defender

  • CaliKing86
    December 30, 2015 at 10:06 am PST

    No wonder they held off on announcing this mediocre ass offering. Pathetic, but I guess they can’t all be winners.

  • Fuhr31
    December 30, 2015 at 10:06 am PST

    I was actually expecting a better response from the PS community this month. I think this is a pretty decent month. But I guess in hindsight it’s not surprising that everyone is so negative. I’ve come to expect it here.

  • OMGmyFACE
    December 30, 2015 at 10:08 am PST

    Warfighter? Wow, I forgot that existed. DA:O and Grim Fandango are the only highlights and I’m sure the vast majority of us have played those already. For those of us who haven’t, I suppose it’s not that bad a month… The “free” games are starting to become not worth it, though.

  • Akmaljon
    December 30, 2015 at 10:09 am PST

    Santa isn’t coming! Happy new year Bastards.

  • GramDemolition
    December 30, 2015 at 10:12 am PST

    Wow, I never saw a post with this super low rating in this blog ever.

    Lucky for ps3 users, decent titles are offered at least.

  • Kharmeister
    December 30, 2015 at 10:15 am PST

    I guess I’ll take Grim Fandango and Dragon Age: Origins…the rest of the list is pretty underwhelming. But Banner Saga’s finally coming out next month, so I will survive! A Happy New Year to all of you!

    • Mollarom
      December 30, 2015 at 10:26 am PST

      Right, Banner Saga would have been a MUCH better choice for a PS Plus game.

      Hey, there was a team that arranged for Rocket League as a PS Plus game. Can we have that team in charge of picking the PS Plus games forever?

  • Big_Dog_Golfer
    December 30, 2015 at 10:15 am PST

    Honestly, if it were not required to play online, I would be dropping the PS+. Ever since the launch of the PS4 we are getting less and less retail games. There have been some excellent releases such as Resogun and Rocket League but those are not actual retail first games. How is it possible that after more than two years since lauch we are yet to see Killzone or Knack as a monthly game? I can understand holding off on third party games but those are Sony Properties. Also, this situation has made me stop supporting indie games since they are eventually put on this release program. Why pay if in a few months it will be free (I’m looking at you Grim Fandango). PS+ is not the great value as when I joined in 2013.

  • Maverick6146
    December 30, 2015 at 10:15 am PST

    I personally feel this month is an improvement comparing to previous few months. And I don’t mind these remastered titles occupying the IGC list, better they do than some no-name “creative” indies do.

    Also, people do complain on everything, LOL.

  • Cancerebro
    December 30, 2015 at 10:16 am PST

    I’m trying to beat all the AAA PS3 games piled up in years in a hurry. I have only three months left and as soon as I’m done, I’m done. I won’t subscribe to PS+ even if I get a PS4. I don’t play online anyway and with these crappy “free” games, I sure won’t miss out much.

  • jonathan9nfld
    December 30, 2015 at 10:18 am PST

    O look more free indie games for the PS4! *Yawn*

  • Crab_Battle_GO
    December 30, 2015 at 10:20 am PST

    This is really not what I’d call a great line-up for the new year. I’m usually very positive about what we get but lately PS+ seems like a cop-out. As someone who has been paying for it since before the whole Playstation Security Scandal and has stuck with it through requiring to own it, I’m feeling somewhat let down by what we’ve been getting lately. I guess now they are just seen as a bonus due to PS4 owners being required to have it but it still just feels kinda half-assed sometimes.

    I already have a subscription for quite a while so it’s not like I’ll just cancel it, but I do want to say I am somewhat disappointed. This is not a very exciting collection of games to start a huge amount of people who just got PS4s and PS3s and Vitas for the Holidays. I just really wish Plus felt as good to be a part of as it used to. Now between being required and just feeling like we’re actually getting less through it is just a real bummer. Knowing way more people have Plus now due to the PS4, it feels like there’s sort of no excuse for the games being lackluster, as Sony has been getting way more money from Plus than in the past.

  • abraves1221
    December 30, 2015 at 10:20 am PST

    awesome PS3 choices (insert sarcasm here) a game I best 6 years ago and the game that single handidly killed the Medal Of Honor franchise

  • EEEASE
    December 30, 2015 at 10:20 am PST

    I never complain about the PS Plus free games lineup. This month provides a solid variety of genres. Looking forward to checking out DA: O and maybe even Legends of War: Patton, which seems like a very capable strategy game.

    Hardware: Rivals looks fun!

  • Kharmeister
    December 30, 2015 at 10:21 am PST

    Oh, Hardware looks good too, I don’t know much about it but I will gladly try it out. Honestly I picked up too many games during the VERY GOOD Flash Sale as well as the current Xbox LIve sale, so I can’t really complain about lackluster Plus and GwG lineups anymore. Way too much to play, 1st World Problems. I’m just going to take some time this holiday to enjoy all the things I have (including a @#% of games on my backlog, a new Star Wars movie, my health, friends and family, and of course a roof over my head and a job to pay for all these games), and not worry so much about these minor things. Once again, all the best to every one of you in the new year!

  • ElektroDragon
    December 30, 2015 at 10:22 am PST

    LAME. Where are the AAA games? Hardware should have basically been F2P from the demo I played, and Grim Fandango was an already discounted game most of us bought.

    I will repeat: LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME LAME

  • Khaoz76
    December 30, 2015 at 10:25 am PST

    That’s the most disappointing lineup I’ve seen in awhile. I definitely won’t be resubbing and that’s not a great way to start 2016.

    How did it even seem like a good idea to include a 5-year-old game, a remaster of a 16-year-old game, another old PSP game, and more indies when so many people complain about too many indies on the PS+ lineup? Try including more games that aren’t an indie or 5+ years old next time.

  • Kishnabe
    December 30, 2015 at 10:25 am PST

    Thanks for a ****** PSP game again. Invizanimals and now this.

    At least MHPortable and God Eater Burst was good offerings.

    I thought we were getting Legends of War Patton Vita version….not the PSP version.

    Vita deserves better…..this would have been a good month had it not been for PSP game.

    Just subbed till 2017 January……because of Cloud, and sales. Also expect 2016 to be decent but you guys started off with poorly.

    I expect more from a Vita and PS4/

    PS4 has no had a triple A game since January 2015…..at least offer 1 AAA PS4 game each 6 months.

    Vita…no PSP games unless they are well renowned( Syphon Filter, Metal Gear, Persona). Suikoden PS1…even. Legend of Dragoon, Breath of FIRE PSP games.

    Probably nobody played Invizanimals….and many trophy hunters would have liked Patton Vita for easy plat.

    This is the first month I won’t play anything from the line up.

  • Kishnabe
    December 30, 2015 at 10:27 am PST

    2015….at lot of people would be fresh to join PS+…and many did because that month was amazing.

    Potential for plenty of signups in 2016…..you dropped the ball.

  • z11po
    December 30, 2015 at 10:27 am PST

    I wish it was possible to disable ps+ until I had a game I wanted to play online, or the ps+ lineup was worth anything. I originally subscribed specifically because of the free games value. Right now my money is just being wasted. Too many months of lackluster titles.

  • sir_arbalest
    December 30, 2015 at 10:29 am PST

    Realmente me siento estafado con lo que nos han estado presentando últimamente a todos los que estamos subscritos, me parece que no toman en cuenta los comentarios ni las tendencias, hacen ver que la comunidad los prefiere pero ustedes no los toman en cuenta, sino vean lo que Xbox ha entregado
    Atentamente un usuario decepcionado

  • dragonsandlasers
    December 30, 2015 at 10:31 am PST

    Another month of crap on PS4. =/

  • Louis_Hamelin
    December 30, 2015 at 10:35 am PST

    Too much point and click games….
    grim fandago
    walking dead
    king quest
    broken age
    ether one

  • bladedragon03
    December 30, 2015 at 10:36 am PST

    I’m sorry but the past few months have been really bad line ups. None of these games say o yeah my money for ps plus was worth. I’m not an Xbox fan at all but at least their members get good free games with their members ship. Each month I am met with disappointment and I’ve talked two of my friends into buys playstation 4’s. I don’t know why you are excited to bring us the line up that just keep disappointing us.

  • floormat
    December 30, 2015 at 10:38 am PST

    It gets kind of old listening to people whine about the free games. All they all perfect? No but at the very least you usually get 4-6 really good games a year in almost anyone’s opinion. In my opinion its more like 12-16. Do you realize that this free game program forced Microsoft to offer the same? If not for Sony we would all be paying the 50-60 for online play with no free games. Thank you Sony for this offer. I have enjoyed dozens of great games over the last few years and will enjoy many to come I am sure.

    My request for some weekly or monthly deal would be dead space 3 the awakening expansion on some kind of PlayStation plus deal or hey if it can be free why not =P Also bios shock infinite expansion’s or or the season pass on deal. Thank you Sony for all you do.

    • Lolicorn420Kush
      December 30, 2015 at 10:46 am PST

      They may have made Microsoft do free games also, but I don’t know why that matters. They are competing with PC that has deeply discounted games that look and perform much better. In some cases with extensive mods that significantly improve the games also. All that with free multiplayer, as it should be.

      Good exclusives and value from PS Plus are what they need.

    • saab01
      December 30, 2015 at 10:47 am PST

      What are you talking about the whole ps4 online pay system through plus was to get more users to subscribe to the service. Just look back at plus users before the ps4 and we didn’t that many I remember out of my 63 friends on my friend list only me and one other friend subbed to the service. When I would ask others why they didn’t want to the reason I got was lack of good games. We had some good ones in the past like

      Tomb raider
      Spec ops the line
      Remember me
      Metro
      Devil may cry
      Bioshock infinite

      After those span of games not much has come from the service that was so worthwhile in my eyes.

    • ShadowHawkZen22
      December 30, 2015 at 10:48 am PST

      It also gets old to be disappointed. I’m all for a vareity of games but the amount indies has been to high as of late. One would have expected Sony to deliver a title game to start 2016, sadly that was not case.

    • floormat
      December 30, 2015 at 6:09 pm PST

      Dragon age origins and medal of honor warfighter were both fairly good games. I paid full price for DO origins and got around 150 hours of gameplay in before my ps3 got the yellow light of death. That’s the only sour point. I was down to the final expansion and saves were not transferable and since it was a choice based game there was really nothing I could do to finish the game completely. warfighter was a great fluff playthru too.

      Another way you can look at this is you get 6 games a month. 6 games! 49.99/72 is 70 cents a game. DA origins and warfighter are worth that alone. The whole rest of the year and the online play is free. Can you believe you bought 2 games and they gave you 70 more free. Some junk and some good but not a bad deal at all.

      I just picked up the new dragon age, fallout 4, cod bo 3, cars, just cause 3, newest batman, MGS5 and others so I don’t even think i’ll have time to get to much this year except for some vita time at work…

      speaking of vita what I would really like is either cross play to actually work with the ps3 or at least the ability to download some of the many digital ps3 games onto my vita to play at work.

  • LucasFla1
    December 30, 2015 at 10:42 am PST

    Still waiting for greatness…..

  • rudetoy
    December 30, 2015 at 10:43 am PST

    Looks like my decision not to re-subscribe was the right one. Another disappointing month.

  • juuichi-11
    December 30, 2015 at 10:47 am PST

    1 year without PS Plus… NO REGRETS. If the “free games” weren’t “rented” and actually FREE, I’d still be an active member. Also, I couldnt BUY a game for good on a sale (gravity rush) because I already “owned” it. Then my plus expired and I cant play the game.

  • manofredearth
    December 30, 2015 at 10:52 am PST

    C’mon PlayStation! On the PS3, I’ve received Borderlands 2, Bioshock Infinite, and now Dragon Age Origins… PS4 gets nothing comparable! Fix this, we pay too much to get garbage.

  • LaRonStar
    December 30, 2015 at 10:56 am PST

    These PS Plus feeble have sucked for a while now. Playing online is all PLUS is for. I can’t even say the free games are a bonus because I could not tell you the last time I played one that was offered. I just save my HD space.

  • A5-you-4R3
    December 30, 2015 at 10:58 am PST

    The original PS3 PS+ was a bait and switch for the PS4, the age of PS4 made it excusable until now. PS+ was one of my main reasons to changing to PS4 over XBox One and now it just seems like now that PS4 is ahead it is fine with taking the profits and leaving the value of PS+ in the past. Both PS4 games are super niche and will not apply to a lot of people. You know people are demanding ANY AAA retail titles for the PS4 and continue to thumb your nose at PS4 owners. PS+ was marginal in 2014 with bright points at Rocket league and Grow Home but a lot of games that are never worth over $20, it is better than nothing but you did better with PS3 and so it feels like you are cheating us.

  • stevelvl
    December 30, 2015 at 10:58 am PST

    wow glad i canceled ps+

  • TheChaosDivision
    December 30, 2015 at 11:06 am PST

    Pretty excited for this month’s PS+! Never played DA: O and I’ve always been on the fence about buying Legends of War Patton and Nihilumbra seems pretty interesting. Thanks!

  • LukasTrips
    December 30, 2015 at 11:07 am PST

    It’s very rare I leave a comment on here, I usually just check the games, shrug, and move on. But for the first month of 2016 this seems kinda mediocre. I’m not exactly expecting Arkham Knight or Fallout 4 to be a free game, but if this lineup is a sample of what to expect for the rest of the year, I’m kinda disappointed I bought a year’s subscription…

  • Nathadeous
    December 30, 2015 at 11:13 am PST

    This is beyond insulting, offering a game that has been free for the past 4 months (consisting it was in beta) and a game that, aside from the artistic touch and story Grim Fandango is upsetting.

    It comes to a point when gamers feel belittled wven offered free games for purchasing online membership when we have to pay for the Internet itself. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a VIP status for players who spend an extra amount on their plus subscription to get games worth the pay.

    I would be happier if sony blatantly said, there are no free games this month instead were going to do this survey and actually listen to what you say for once instead of asking us to tell you what you never implement. Seems like since you’ve started winning the console war you’ve stopped caring about your base players.

    • hundreddollarsox
      December 30, 2015 at 2:33 pm PST

      “It comes to a point when gamers feel belittled wven offered free games for purchasing online membership when we have to pay for the Internet itself.”

      TRUE WORDS, MY FRIEND…true words

  • Wrayther-Dragon
    December 30, 2015 at 11:13 am PST

    If the comments section is the lifeblood of PlayStation.Blog you better get reading PlayStation because I think you’ll find the majority of people haven’t been happy with this PlayStation+ for a long time and now it’s getting me to think you’re taking the piss. Having a laugh, pulling my tit and everything else. Come on, you know you can release better games and it ain’t going to shoot you in the foot. At least start giving out the games that were available when ps4 first launched instead. Or something….God something…I do not enjoy these crap games you are fobbing off on us and I’m not the only one so please listen and brainstorm.

  • KanonZombie
    December 30, 2015 at 11:14 am PST

    Thank god I didn’t buy Grim Fandango when it was on sale a few months ago…

  • Cloud_Olavo
    December 30, 2015 at 11:15 am PST

    Please PlayStation would hurt that much to give players a single A class for instance, we are tired of indies and “little cute games”. I espected something to at least match microsoft. please don t let us down…

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