PS Plus: Free Games for January, 2016

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PS Plus: Free Games for January, 2016

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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  • I bought psplus at the end of 2013.. after looking at all the releases from 2012, and was like “wow… this is an amazing service” needless to say the best games i got were from the month i subscribed.

    all the good games they gave us most people bought and played already (freedom wars…)

    or games that are full of gimmicks and not actually very good (stfu)

    just paying for the online and the discounts.

    playstation you should just make an option for people to pay for online only.. like 2 bucks a month or something.

    • Well, dancerninja….Sony must believe that it’s consumers are either gullible or naive. Because pretending that going into 2016 with this instant game collection is a win, only has the bootlickers and the automatons clapping. I dont see anyone else except the fan-boys excited. So, they must be SONY’s core demographic. In their eyes, SONY can do no wrong, but to the rest of us, with actual brains inside of our heads, yeah, it doesnt make much sense does it.

      You would think with it’s new post Christmas user base that it would be pulling out all the stops moving forward in to 2016.

      Well, guess what, the only people that believe that are the SONY SHEEPLE and if you can read then you know exactly who these bootlickers and automatons are.

    • true brother.

  • I know it’s free and all, and I did like magicka and gauntlet wasn’t so bad…..I’m sure these new ones arnt bad either……but I’d like a “big” one every now then….and it could be a PS3 AAA or something…..I’m just a bit underwhelmed specially since I missed most of the good titles of this year……still a great service tho

  • PLEASE PLAYSTATION! Stop jerking around with us PS4 owners! Your choice of “free” games suck!!!! I have stayed quite until now but feel you are taking us for a ride we don’t want to go on. You have the #1 console in the world. Act like it. Give us some AAA games and make the Playstation Plus worth the money!

  • Wait! Dragon Age : Origins, as in the November 2009 version? Yes, great game I own and have a Platinum trophy on two different PSN accounts.

  • Really? This is all we got? Indies after indies?!?- you’re making me jump into Xbox1 this 2016…..

  • Btw what happened to that ” we let you pick what game you want this month”. That only happened 1 time. 1 freaking time.

    • Watch out for what you say, you know the SHEEPLE, the automatons, and the bootlickers dont like it!

      You know you have to be grateful for your measly 4 dollars a month

    • I think some people were dissatisfied with popular choice of Grow Home. I’d rather let Sony pick out the games so we just don’t get a ‘popularity vote’.

  • As for the Hardware : Rivals, it was on the PS4 free to download in Beta for plus members in October. I was not impressed. Two vehicles to choose from then and if I wanted Twisted Metal el cheap’o, I will play the original PSX twisted metal.
    Sony is pushing Indie and has several big wins, but this is not one of those wins.
    Now to go download that Never Alone dlc I seen… :-)

  • Wow and I got talked into ps4 this year for my son. Wish I could return and get an Xbox! His 360 is loaded with big name titles from Xbox live. I’m not a fan of gaming on a console but as far as customer service server stability and content I’m very disappointed I made the jump to Playstation

  • As a PS4-only owner, I am bitterly disappointed that we still are not seeing any decent games included in the PS Plus membership. I will NOT be renewing my yearly subscription in September if this carries on. I have an Nvidia TV console with Geforce Now (formerly Grid) subscription and will be using that instead. My PS4 may aswell be a doorstop. This is the end for the PS4. It will go down in history as easily the worst PlayStation console of all time.

  • Wow. Wtf is this. Where are the AAA games, Sony? This is what we get when they dominate the market. Well, I am glad I bought Xbox One. Backward compatibility and great games. Going back playing xbox after my sub expire.

  • <>

    AMEN.

    AN EXAMPLE ON THIS BLOG:

    PSN FANBOY: “Sony, great lineup this month! Can’t wait to play em!”
    RANDOM SONY BLOGGER: “Great! Enjoy!”

    EVERY OTHER PSN + SUBSCRIBER: “Hate the lousy titles every month!”
    SONY BLOGGER: ” ”

    :)

  • Highly Disappointed Sony…

    I feel if you still don’t have your ps3 ps plus games is a slap in the face

  • Great disappointment for PS4 :(

  • Why even give away ps4 games if this is what we’re gonna get? lol

  • I need to think! 3 games for Vita! Dragon Age for PS3! …. Still haven’t bought PS4!… well! I think you got me again sony!

  • I’ve heard a lot about Grim and have played DA:O but the Ps4 games are lackluster titles considering January will be the month were everyone sees what they are paying for adhering getting a PS4 for Christmas. I feel like they should have done some good games to at least entice people into actually buying ps+ and especially after not having any good games in a few months.

  • What I truly dont understand is this, when these people try to find games for us, it’s kinda like picking out birthday gifts, ya know?
    Have you ever in your life bought a gift for someone that you knew they either wouldn’t want, wouldn’t appreciate, or would use?
    IS this all a big elaborate joke at our expense while the sheeple praddle on about a game from 1998 that ran on windows 95 as the greatest game of all time????????????????????
    A point and click puzzle game is the greatest game of all time???????????????
    It makes my head spin to think there are such patriotic loyal hypnotized automatons and fan-boys who really beleive this.

    • And not just that, but the fact that we ought to be grateful for what we are given each month and to either praise the pooh
      or stfu because we’re ungrateful whiners who expect 2 triple A games every month. Which is 100% false, but that tends to be the crux of their arguement, doesnt it.

      As a matter of fact, I’ve seen the same argument re-worded 100’s of times, but it all equals the same thing..
      which is…”tt’s only 50 dollars…it;s only 50 dollars…shuddup already…if you arent going to praise the most epic games ever on any system at any point in time then you dont deserve to have PS PLUS…You are not worthy…lmfao”
      Basically, that’s what these wing nuts are saying…no matter what they write..no matter what they say
      that is what they actually mean…
      And the thing is these wackaddodle SHEEPLE actually buy into this like it’s some weird cult
      or SONY church of Scientology or something and you know those AUTOMATONS dont like when you talk bad about
      the church of PS PLUS

    • btw those games i got from ps plus that i actually enjoyed were…

      sonic all start racing, wipeout, and gravity rush.

      for ps4- rocket league.

      the service has been of value to me for ps plus discounts; but at the same time im paying for digital content thats like 10,000 % profit (no matter the discount).

      Ill stay with playstation because of all the great (mostly japanese produced games) coming out in 2016.

      But, i can’t be sure ill buy a ps5 in 5 years time if this keeps up..

    • @+ DancerNinja, you wrote:
      “at the same time im paying for digital content thats like 10,000 % profit (no matter the discount)”

      And that really is my biggest gripe. Forget everything else. My biggest complaint is the cost of digital downloads.
      That is pure profit for the developer, the publisher, for Sony. There is no cost material or distribution cost..nothing.
      No second-hand market. That is pure profit.

      And yet, they bang us over the head for it. Look, i prefer digital to physical copies. It’s just my preference.
      But to charge us $49.99 for digital downloaded games when can purchase physical copies for $24.99 or less and that we can actually sell back and make a few bucks towards our next purchase is NUTS!!!!

      I dont understand that at all…that is my BIGGEST COMPLAINT and i really wish that it were being addressed and it’s not.

    • Funny…you use the term “sheeple” as if you knew the meaning of it.

    • Is this wackadoodle serious? Maybe, you’re unclear about what it means, Let’s see if this helps

      SHEEPLE – “people compared to sheep in being docile, foolish, or easily led.”

      Do you feel like a sense of enlightenment now, dopey or you still grazing?

  • Aren’t the free games suposed to be rated over 70 on Metacritic? Medal of Honor is rated 55. Don’t lie to the users and bring us AAA games not for the name but for the score as well

  • If I wanted a 80’s looking Nintendo games every month….I would’ve kept my Nintendo back then. Sad part most of the 80’s games was way better then the crap you hand us every month. We saw a bunch of crap last year good to know this year ain’t looking any better.

  • why dont you let us pick the games we want instead of us praying that u give something decent for ps4 its always ****, always

  • Grim Fandango is great, but as for the rest….
    Dang Sony. You stopped trying.

  • I am glad that I have PS3! Because ps4 games are weak! Grim Fandango Remastered, Hardware: Rivals not worthy my ps4 life! So will i download Grim Fandango Remastered, Hardware: Rivals not in thousands years!

    PS3,PS VITA It will always have better psn plus games, because u DONT NEAD PAY FOR ONLINE SERVERS!

  • And all u guys who hope to geat Killzone Shadow Fall or any Sony game that will never ever,EVER happen! But there is ASIA which has already get Killzone Shadow Fall, Thief, Knack…! SO those games are now officially Blocked for Eu and America users! Well done Sony!

  • January’s line up isn’t that good specially for ps4. after last few month of semi-weak titles i only hoped we could start 2016 with great games. 2016 has disappointing me in advance.
    ps3 games are okay but i only play with ps4. grim fandango is a great game that i was going to buy sometime in the future but not right now. after months of free ps plus indie platformers and adventure games (king’s quest even wasn’t a whole game, just 1 episode), i desperately needed something different, some good 3d shooter maybe like killzone, bf4, cod:ghosts, wolfenstein, evil within or far cry 4 (which is only 15usd in ps store right now), and there are more other good choices in the market but just didn’t get any of them. don’t want all those games just one of them in every 4-6 month would do the job. i don’t want any adventure games for next few months. i’m officially sick of them.
    when sony chooses MOH and DA:O for ps3 they should give similar games to ps4 players too.

    • Need advice? Buy ps3 ;)

    • If you “desperately needed something different,some good 3d shooter” like you said.You should get out of your a** and go buy those games you wanna play.What are you?….dependant on Plus to play?….I bet all the constant whiners here are all relying on Plus to play which is a huge shame.

      If y’all want AAA games so much,go buy them…it won’t do you any good whining and bashing games you didn’t even tried just because you don’t get the AAA games you want for free.

  • Great month…although I’m a bit sad that its not true that the rumors I’ve seen about Arkham Origins and Dark Souls 2 being the PS3 games for january,this month is really good.Now this is what I expect from Plus…giving me games I don’t wanna pay for…Dragon Age,Grim Fandango…hell I’m even happy to have that utter crap of a game MoH Warfighter.

    Also really glad with Hardware Rivals and Nihilumbra…2 games I was wanting to try out.

    • Yeah u You should try Hardware Rivals,Grim Fandango the best games EVER haha! I prefer playing Super Mario then those both titles! ;)

    • @ Zmaj999 – Shouldn’t even be here then if you prefer that…ha honestly you should really STFU.Ma bet is that you don’t even know how these games are but since you saw no mainstream AAA title name there in the PS4 free games you went straight up and thought they are crap….thats all you lame whiners in a nutshell.
      Not a fan of Grim Fandango gameplay but yeah I’ll try them both in the future…only then I’ll call them crap…that is if they’re bad games.

    • Why so angry lol?This is the truth im not so old so i dont know Grim Fandango, Hardware: Rivals i dont play those game on ps2, but i see gameplay and graphics suck. But i like PS3 games! Surely better graphics,gameplay so im very enthusiastic for Medal of Honor Warfighter and Dragon Age: Origins ;)

    • @Welmosca, is apparantly down for anything, oblong objects in foreign spaces, power squats onto orange construction cones. He’ll gladly try anything breathing, grazing, bolted down, or otherwise. He’s the real open-minded type, as you can tell.

  • Well I can see my last comment was erased, where is it? Anyway I’m done, im fed up with getting excited over bargain bin crap games every month. Like I said in my previous post, I’m trading in for the competition (xboxone). At least they know have to make things right for their customers that pay a lot of money all year long.

  • Happy to try Dragon Age and Grim Fandango, very little interest in anything else. I’d like to see an Eastern RPG sometime soon, even if it’s “just” a PSP game or something. :/

    Also, please tell us if the Vita games are compatible with Vita TV. It’s not fun to get excited about receiving a game in the monthly collection, only to learn that I can’t play it on my system.

  • Would be great if anyone was still playing the PS3, but you’ve dropped the ball again for PS4 owners – especially when XBox’s Games With Gold has hit another home run!

  • The beta for hardware rivals was fun (for the brief time I played) but I just like the concept of rocket league more, so that will continue to get much play. Grim Fandango not sure about although I’ve seen it in the store for the longest time not knowing what it is, I would have bought it buy now most likely. And for the ps3 games nothing going on there this month either (imo) Hate to complain but I’m a little jealous of the X1 this month and just bought my 4th DS4, and as of right now I pay for psn just to play rocket league every now and again.

  • saw someone on here say we got bastion for free on ps plus.. lmao.

  • Dragon Age Origins and Grim Fandango are excellent free games of the month!

  • Since you asked for feedback:
    This lineup is bad…really, really, bad. Yes, that is vague (albeit quite accurate), but there is no need to restate what numerous others have already done so in great detail. You can do so much better.

  • Every month I read the new games on ps plus article and every month I’m blown away with the level of over entitled whining in the comments section. If you’re not getting what you want from the service than you should cancel your subscription. The free selections are usually decent and sometimes turn out to be gems that you otherwise may not have played. Rocket League!?! The store discounts alone make plus a worthwhile service. Anyway, you’re mostly paying for the online service. I just don’t understand. What is it that you expect to get for free? You guys act as if you’re being held up at gun point or ripped off somehow. Have some perspective for gods sake.

  • Just to save themselves from such really harsh comments, I’d advise Sony PlayStation to stratify the PS Plus membership in something like this:

    1. Pay for PS + Online Only- Subscribe just to use the multiplayer feature of any game

    2. Pay for PS + Goodies and Cloud Storage: Subscribe just to get the free games, and

    3. Pay for a PS + Bundle- This one is going to work like the current mechanism, you get everything, in it, one package. Just price it in such a way that if you if add the 1 and 2, you’ll save a few hundred bucks in 3.

    That way, hopefully, it’ll keep people happy who say they have PS + just to play online, keep happy those people who want the free games and are content with it and also look out for people who are looking for a deal as the 3rd one will save them some money compared to the 1st and 2nd.

    • i don not care??Coz i have 1 year subscription after that i will not psn plus extended coz im more time on android device with my frends then on ps4…

  • Will most likely play Grim Fandango and Nihilumbra, although still working my way though my Christmas games. It amuses me somewhat when people are saying Xbox Games for Gold is better – Killer Instinct Season 1 Ultra Edition and Zheros (both fighting games) Also Dirt Showdown and Deus Ex: Human Revolution (which has already been free on PS+ in June 2013. ) I subscribe to both Xbox Gold and PS+ so it really makes no difference to me, but I have always preferred the PS+ content, just down to personal preference I guess.

  • What I would like to see is for them to let us vote again. Not only that but to honestly back when they said ps plus would get real AAA titles injustice was their first but since then a lot of indies. not all of them are bad but it deff needs to be better. if you want us to voice opinion’s then let us vote, thus giving us more chances to do so.

  • Maybe Sony should just stop handing out free games, because their immature fanbase of rotten children isn’t happy with anything.

    Grim Fandango, always wanted to play it but my pc back when it came out simply did not have the horsepower.
    After that I lost sight of it, untill today, so Thanks Sony, thanks for this opportunity.

    • Rotten children isn’t happy with anything? U sure? Realiy? Coz we geat a lot indle,retro games last months! O i forget we geat The Walking Dead season 2 BUT this game i also free on android devices! Pipe bomb!

    • @+ Kats650 , Maybe you should just join the cult of SONY and stop preaching brimstone and fire to those who refuse to drink the koolaid with ya.

      Here’s a news flash, even though it appears you’re having a blast on the blue pill, the truth of the matter is, most of us who arent sheeple,took the red pill a while back.

      K, Mr Smith?
      Thx

  • There hasn’t been really any good ps plus games dropped in a long while. I’ll try Grim, but ps4 users keep getting the ****** end of the stick.

  • Start giving some real games.
    Add FarCry, Call Of Duty, etc.

    • Yeah or they give us the money?! Sony say they wasting 1000 euro,usd, € for those games in year! I will be satisfied with 45 € to 60 € on month they still will have profit for servers…

  • I don’t even consider it a joke at this rate. Decade old games and small price releases. Well happy new year to you to Sony :/

  • “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.”

    You’re welcome.

    My thoughts on the lineup?

    RUBBISH! AGAIN!

  • Good line-up for PS3, but HORRIBLE line-up for PS4, which has only been getting crappy games for a very long time now. Games with Gold was a lot better, once again.

  • Actually i was expecting AAA games since it is the first month of 2016. I’ve played Grim Fandango when i wasn’t be able to speak english. It will be interesting to play it now. About Hardware: Rivals. I will see it when i download.

  • Honestly, I have far too many games to play after the holiday rush to care what PS+ games are given this month. As long as they don’t give me one episode of a series like they did last month I’m okay with whatever. I hear Grim is good, never played it, and other game Hard Ware Rivals could be fun with friends. The PS3 games are solid games, both I’ve played and completed, the Vita games seem typical for the system.

  • Well done Sony. You never fail to give me the games for free that i bought the month or 2 before. Took you a bit longer but finally added grim fandango. I expected it to be free the month after i bought it. The free games system just discourages me from buying anything from the store.

  • Hello! It’s been a while since I last left a comment here, but I think that I could leave my two cents this time.

    Personally, I don’t like to whine and all, but it is true that the “importance” of the games offered in the IGC has been falling, I remember the days before the PS4, when we would get big AAA games for the PS3.

    For the PS4, I could understand that it would be a bit difficult to throw in some big games, the console being out for only 2 years, maybe next year will be different.

    In PS3, the only system that I own, it’s been “good” overall, I can recall some big games this year, like Twisted Metal. In PSVita you have thrown some (a few) nice games, but since I don’t plan to buy one, I don’t fell entitled to complain in that front.

    This month in particular, I’d say that it’s was “Ok” (definitely better than last one). I appreciate Grim Fandango, I’ve never played it and it goes right away to the PS4 backlog I’m gathering. It’s a shame that I already own DA (although I haven’t played it yet) and Medal of Honor… I recall some nasty reviews, but maybe a little try wouldn’t hurt.

    I hope that things will look up better next year.

    Happy New Year!!

  • Sony after deleting my last comment you have lost a customer, never will I buy a Sony product again,my PlayStation has just been traded in and I’ve bought an xbox, my comment was fair and fitted in with the rules on here, you are a corrupt money grabbing company and I hope others follow suit. Is it that hard to please loyal gamers? Your customer service is also rubbish I’ve been waiting weeks for a reply. Goodbye Sony hello Microsoft.

  • >> Medal of Honor Warfighter

    Are you … serious? I know that by now you stopped giving a damn about choosing good games (i.e. games with at least 70 on gamerankings – as said in PS+ trailer). But Warfighter with his 55.40% – that’s not even funny. You are giving our money to EA for a very bad game – that is not a nice thing to do.

  • Okay I thank You PS team, that you saved me money again…I was willing to sub ps plus for year…since I bought PS4 I’ve been waiting for you to show me it’s worth it. My expectations were wrong. I was wrong… Im going to buy me a new hardcore pc and get away from this arguing should I buy ps plus or not. Im not a rich kid but so you tell me to pay to play online and you give away free games that are so cheap that I dont want to talk about it anymore. I even convinced two of my friends to buy ps4 . I love ps4 but its all sad what you offer. And to mention your last sales 1+1 when you raised the prices so high was so obvious. Shame on you. Where I live we call it stealing. But I believe you are all good people and you are trying to offer good service for people to have fun playing games. Maybe more conciousness next time. Peace

  • I remember when I first got PS Plus. Two years ago, along with a PS Vita. That was the first time I ever played anything from Sony older than the PS2. A good lineup of games: Uncharted Golden Abyss along with Gravity rush. It really impressed me. That impression is just disappearing, though.

    Grim Fandango is good, though.

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