PlayStation Plus: Free Games for August 2016

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PlayStation Plus: Free Games for August 2016

Update: Starting on September 22, 2016, prices for PlayStation Plus memberships will change to $59.99 USD/ $69.99 CAD for twelve months and $24.99 USD/$29.99 CAD for three months. The monthly plan will change to $11.99 CAD in Canada, and remain $9.99 USD in the U.S. If you are a current member, the new prices will take effect if your membership renews on or after this date.

PlayStation Plus strives to enrich your PlayStation experience through a world-class service built for our fans. This marks the first time that PS Plus membership prices will increase in the U.S. and Canada since the launch of the service in 2010. The new pricing reflects the current market conditions while enabling us to continue providing exceptional value to our members. As a member, you will continue to enjoy the benefits and features that enable shared experiences, such as online multiplayer, free games, and exclusive discounts. You will also continue to get exclusive benefits such as online game save storage and discounts across the PlayStation digital services.

If you do not wish to continue your subscription, please be sure to cancel it by turning off auto-renewal in your account settings before September 22, 2016.

We thank all of you, our PlayStation Plus members, for your ongoing support.

We’re happy to share the free PS4 games for PS Plus members this August! This month we look to satisfy your inner space pirate, and let you battle it out with friends in a frenzied tower builder.

First up is Tricky Towers, a new title from WeirdBeard Games. Tricky Towers is a physics-based puzzler that’s at its best when you’re competing against friends. With local and online multiplayer for two to four players, the game shines as you race to stack your tower while casting spells to disrupt your opponents. The gameplay is fast, fun, and addictive, as you’ll find yourself coming back for more. So gather your friends or join them online and enjoy the mayhem of Tricky Towers.

Next up is Rebel Galaxy. Suit up and take command in this space combat RPG from developer Double Damage. Take the helm of a massive destroyer as you make your reputation through trade, by being a work-for-hire mercenary or a swashbuckling pirate. In a procedurally generated universe, no two star systems are the same and there’s always something new to discover. So take the helm, prepare for battle, and have a blast with Rebel Galaxy.

Full lineup:

  • Tricky Towers, PS4
  • Rebel Galaxy, PS4
  • Yakuza 5, PS3
  • Retro/Grade, PS3
  • Patapon 3, PS Vita
  • Ultratron, PS Vita, PS3, PS4

We’ll see you in the comments section. Enjoy.

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  • @MakaiOokami I’m starting to get my fill of your self righteous comments. Always talking to us all high and mighty and telling us that if we are not happy with psplus, to go buy an Xbox One for 300 dollars. You are NOT the center of everything either.
    Who named you prom queen? Stop pesturing people and stfu already.

  • I’m so sorry I ever moved from ps3 to 4. Only game for ps4 I liked on ps+ was injustice ….

  • PS Plus is like your local lottery.
    Every week you don’t win, but that ONE time you might just win $100 from that measly $1 or $2 dollars you put in.

    To everyone that hates the monthly titles why not just play them and if you spend enough time playing them a brand NEW MONTH may come. With 6 more titles you will grow to hate!

  • wooooowwwwww, this is bad, baaaaad baaaaad, really bad.

  • Nothing but more garbage…. Just remove the Mandatory Online paywall from PSMinus and watch your subs disappear. While $ony has beaten XB thus far due to the very weak ORIGINAL XB along with Don Mattrick’s ineptitude, the Xbox Scorpio is gonna wipe the floor with the Neo and I hope to god the mindless “gamers” see this and purchase the Scorpio instead thus flipping the advantage the $ony and their arrogance has taken for granted; even though I think you have to be a idiot to buy Either Console refresh.
    This Console generation has killed consoles for me and I now have gone 95% PC and I aint looking back, been a console gamer since 78 and a PC gamer since late 90’s, but I am done with consoles and the original PS4 WILL be the last console I buy for years and most likely ever.

    MS is actually doing right by their fans, Live is a vastly superior service with better Perks and MS is actually LISTENING to their customers, not glossing over and ignoring them like $ony. $ony=Remasters and resales, XB Adds Backwards compatible gaming so on and so forth

    • Lol, psminus. But im with you

    • I have to concur with this gentleman. This is just more of the same that I and others have been saying. To put it simply, we expect better from you Sony – PlayStation!

  • oh heck yeah, i’ve been meaning to pick up rebel galaxy so i’m pretty excited for this lineup

  • ……..Can’t wait to preorder Batman and get the Wolf Among Us.

  • I’ll definitely check out the PS4 games (I upgraded when PS4 came out so I no longer own a PS4) and every month people complain about the lineup Sony really doesn’t have to offer us anything so I’m just glad they give us the opportunity to try games we may have never played otherwise. There have been games offered that I wasn’t interested in I just didn’t download them lol no biggie PS+ comes as advertised and I’m completely happy with the service offered plus the discounts u can’t beat the discounts so in my opinion it’s got something for everyone certain games some will me interested in and amazing sales and benefits for members it’s why I’ve renewed every year keep up the good work Sony!

  • You mean April, not August because this is an April fools joke right?

    I love Sony and die by my PS4 & Vita but PS+ has become a joke. After my PS Now service expires in a couple of months. I’m done.

    • I concur, more of the same BS from the PS. Things used to be awesome a few years back, but now….its just sad.

  • Why these two games, i bet nobody knew what they were before they were choose to be free. I have been waiting for what feels like years just for a okay game

  • Patapon 3 for Vita? Hahahah~.

  • Wow wow wow wee. Be prepared to be moved. Exceptionally unbelievable entertainment at your fingertips. Month after month after month.The greatest content anyone could ever ask for. There is not a more complete entertainment service or entertainment system. Millions of satisfied customers world wide. Enjoy another excellent month of PlayStation Plus.From your overly dedicated Customer Ambassador to the PlayStation Network International. Any questions or comments drop me a line PSN ID: bombbreath.

  • I will play every game and then I will emit comments.

  • Cool I have been wanting to play rebel galaxy and Papaton. Thanks!

  • In the meantime… the competition gives us TWO RETAIL GAMES instead of indie games for mobile….

  • Glad I don’t have to renew my member ship this month! Thanks psn for the unimpressive games

  • If you’re going to keep giving us garbage PSP games, can you at least add trophy support?

  • Such a downgrade after a very good month with Saints Row and Furi. However, both games have Platinum so it isn’t that bad.
    PS3 got Yakuza 5 which is nice for them though

  • Sony please stop with the indie crap, these are not the kind of games people buy a playstation 4 for.
    This list is already underwhelming by its own and pales when compared to Microsoft subscriber offerings for August.

  • Does anyone but me think it would be awesome if they picked like 5 games on each sony device and let us subs vote on them? Then maybe people wouldn’t get on here and cry so much. Download the frer games if they’re not to your liking let the kids play them. Just an idea im sure the hate comments will ensue

  • I’m super stoked about Rebel Galaxy. This is definitely a great psn month.

  • Great Month as usual…broke losers who complain nobody cares you are going to drop your PS Plus subscrip. There are millions of PS Plus users and I’m sure only 10% really care about the free games offered every month. Like my son and his friends who only care about playing multiplayer and never download the games. They are the majority and you my friend are the small minority…get a life!

  • awesome thanks for Yakuza 5 and Patapon 3!

  • only one for me would be rebel galaxy but i already brought it a while back……… not massivly impressed with the list though but if your not happy check out the free to play section… iv been on neverwinter all week bloody loving the fact the game and all the expansions are free

  • PS4: Can’t say totally disappointed like others, good titles to explore (i guess). Hope next month list will satisfy majority.

  • Ohhh…come on PSPlus…!!! You can do it better!!!

  • Come on guys… We can’t pretend two “AAA” games every month.

    • There are so many older ‘decent to good’ games that could be free. The point ppl are making… it’s that the greater consensus thinks that the games being dished out now are ‘poor to crappy’ quality or selection.(however ya wanna word it)

  • you gave us tetris remake and infinite warfare remake cool not my type of games but still a good game (i like cod)

  • Second year of ps+ for me and while I haven’t heard of or been excited for every game, I gotta say, I have loved the service.
    Seriously, thanks to ps+, my wife got me a Vita for our anniversary this year and I have a crap-ton of games thanks to ps+. I’ve been able to try random games that sometimes I keep, sometimes I delete, but either way, get to play.
    Yakuza 5, seriously looking forward to. Yakuza 4 was fun as heck, so I’m excited about 5.

  • Loads of kids moaning again that the money mummy paid should get them a aa++ title,lol
    Thanks Sony that nice little bonus each month you give us is much appreciated.

    • Just want something a few years old maybe, and decnt to good quality. 90% of what they drop on us, ppl hate. As you’ve seen in the comments all the time now.

  • Hooray! Yakuza 5! I’ve been wanting to play it for ages.

  • Even though I like shorter games Yakuza series is the awesome exception! and the others games seem worth a try, a good month for PSplus. I’ll have my ps3 for a long time 170+ digital games in mi backlog 180+ already finished. +50 games waiting to be played in ps4 when I upgrade, psplus definitely worth it in the long run I’m really not interested in playing online, I guess is not worth to navigate through all the toxicity like in this comments.

  • Are you kidding me PlayStation this is BS I want like the last of us the walking dead Darrel give us sum good f-ing games

  • What a hack look at these games every month is a fail for us for ps4 users. Im done with ps plus every month bad games

  • Patapon!! Thanks =D

  • I’m pretty happy I suppose. Definitely not a bad line up. But not great either. That’s the only thing I miss about Xbox. They (usually) get pretty good Games with Gold. But I’m by no means regretting switching to Playstation. Xbox became trash as sad as it is. I usually love to play both, but Halo and Gears is not enough to justify a console.

    One thing that concerns me though is this. Obviously Rebel Galaxy and No Man’s Sky AREN’T the same thing by any means. But I know some people will settle since it’s similar and “good enough”, releasing it as a PS Plus title RIGHT before No Man’s Sky releases seems like a bad business move to me. But who knows. I hope I’m wrong. Just want the game to do well.

    • By my recollection the last game I got for free on Xbox was Rainbow Six Vegas 1, still better to have “Indie Trash” than Launch titles from 2006!

  • Really bad month for PS4 users, I hope you jump back next month…

  • Yay, more indie trash for us PS4 owners! No thanks. And to the people who say “every month can’t be a winner”, I’ve had a PS4 for 2 years now, and the only games even remotely worth taking up my hard drive space have been MGS Ground Zeroes and Injustice. Just more and more indie bowel movements, month after month. Really dissapointed. PS3 actually gets decent AAA titles, we get garbage.

  • Since I like trying free games out I’m happy with this line up.

    • for all the complaining people out there, you need to realize it is what it is. you get what they give you. try it out and smile you don’t really have any other options.

  • Well. Since there’s nothing in August, could you please reveal September games already? In fact, reveal the next 12 months please. It’s been 3 months since my membership ended, and I don’t se why I should renew it, since I already have a mobile phone and am not interested in mobile games for PS4

  • These games are trash, the only good one is Yakuza but it’s not worth downloading and playing PS3 again. Come on Sony remember 2014 when you gave use great AAA games a few months after they came out, guess not. I hope September is a good month for +.

  • The plus games are mainly for me to try out games that I wouldn’t think of picking up myseld the AAA games are nice but not alway’s a good thing since I probably already own them, the Indie games are good since i’m not one for picking up Indie’s unless they interest me. So I don’t complain unless the whole month’s line up is games I already own (Which Is hardly ever) but hey games are games. Also hasn’t a tetris clone already went out with plus? Or is that just something I bought for 99p?

  • this list is the worst yet!! more PSP games?!? people can hack the PSP and get free stuff just stop with the PSP games for everyone’s sake yakuaz 5 is the only good game on there and it’s PS3 way to go sony you show fail. way to (bleeping) go.

  • People just non-stop complain about everything.

    If Sony gave away most of the titles people are asking for, I would end up getting nothing from it. I own most of the new big titles. Got Injustice Gods Among Us with my PS4 and so it was a bust for me. I actually did not get Yakuza 5 from it being digital only.

    Also Xbox One has nothing else to really give at this point. PS4 has way more exclusive titles than Xbox One which is why they really cannot pull people in. The excuse people give is Sony is for the Japanese wanna be gamers.

    I own both consoles, Games with Gold and the PS+ line up are not the reason I play either. My Wii U has no such program. It is exclusives and that is likely why most of you bought a PS4 was for the larger library of games.

  • Each month is getting worse, Xbox is killing it, every month excellent games and PS every month like the cheapest and worst games that no one would play even if they are free :( so sad cuz I am really a PS Fan.

  • I hate to say this but I’ve been on my Xbox One a lot more (even my PS3 more) than my PS4 because of the lackluster of games they have been offering. I haven’t even updated my Playstation Plus because I haven’t seen much available. I hope in the future you will actually push for something of a stronger list of free games. Yeah, Saint Row was a good one for last month but that’s it really. I’m happy I own all the consoles, otherwise I would really be ****ed but there’s always next month.

  • These are pretty lame, every month they are pretty lame. We got NBA2K16 a few months ago… Still… I dropped a 2TB HDD in my 4… so lets get some better games please.

  • I dont see why ppl are sayin its a bad lineup, at least if you have a ps3. I heard rebel galaxy is pretty good, and Yakuza is a pretty good series from what I heard (never played it). Maybe its the worst yakuza game theyre giving us? Idk but its better than a lot of other months

  • Another weak month. Getting tired of this! Is Playstation paying any attention to its customers? If it doesn’t it will start to have less customers.

  • I dont understand why they can’t give us decent games anymore for the PS3!?¡¿ I mean it’s not like you need PlayStation Plus to play online with PlayStation 3, so those buying it, maintaining it for a PlayStation 3 should get better games like we used to in the past. I feel like PS4 gets the best games of those that are dished out to the trio, nowadays anyway.

    Used to be great games all around, give it take a lil here ñ there. But now…pfft, sh¡t…y’all already know. Come on PlayStation…you guys can do so much better, you have before in the past. Sh¡t, I’d even be fine with just getting one game a month, as long as it’s a “decent to good”! To put it simply, 80-90% of what is dished out nowadays, just isn’t worth the/my/our time.

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