PS4 free game for PS Plus in April 2015 revealed

One of the free titles for PS4 has been confirmed for PlayStation Plus subscribers in April

[DarkOcelet]

Dishonored is a masterpiece that should be played by PS3 owners who havent played it yet.

Woah Dave! looks really old school which is nice too. Hopefully the other PS4 is AAA game. Killzone or Knack maybe.

[lelo2play]

Sony... It's time for AA / AAA PS4 games on PS+ !

Games "offered" with PS+ for PS4 have been lacking... with few exceptions.

@Unreal01
Honestly... I have PS+ for the games. Rarely play online with my PS4. Most of my online gaming is on the PC.

[Ricegum]

"Guess I won't miss much."

Except also being able to play online.

Edit: oh nevermind, he edited that bit out now. Probably a simple mistake anyway.

[Griever]

The article is clickbait. The PS Plus games for April were never revealed and the article concludes that the games will be revealed next week. They only misinterpret a statement to write this article. On a side note, IMO we should curb our expectations for free games with PS Plus. PS Plus is not a games subscription service and they are not obligated to offer free AAA games. AAA games cost money to make and Sony cannot just give them for free and hurt the developers or pay massive amounts of money to them in compensation. The service is for offering us multitplayer and exclusive promotions/discounts. The free games are just a bonus. People are getting the wrong idea about the free games being offered with PS Plus and are expecting too much.

[ravinash]

@ Griever.

The idea people have about PSN+ mainly comes from the service when it came out on PS3. There were loads of AAA games that came out for PS3.
I'm not aware of any change going back on that promise for the PS4, but the library as it is for the PS4 at the moment, it will take time before there are enough games that have been out for long enough that PS can start offering them for free.

Thing is, they are still offering smaller games and I did get to play Tomb Raider on PS4 because of it. So the games are still coming out.

[vacoby5]

@grevier you absolutely wrong about it not being for Hames and instead being for multilayer and promotions. I have had plus since 2013, before ps4 was out. It has always been an exclusive program that provided free games and exclusive discounts on others, that's what you were paying for. Since they have change the program as a must to play online on the new system, many more peopl have paid for plus. Thus, many more people would get the free games, so company's don't want (just throwing # out) millions of people getting their games free, it was easier when it was only thousands getting it free.. plus was always about the free and discounted games and I think everyone agrees that ps4 aaa titles should start rolling out on plus, if you've had plus over a 2 yrs you definitely understand this

[Kingthrash360]

Wait so your saying ps+ is lacking on ps4 because it hasn't had AAA games on it?...really? I get you want AAA games on ps+ but you should understand that it's not as easy as it sounds. Also ps4 ps+ games have been coming day one of its launch ...day 1. That in itself is phenomenal. Still a lot of new indie games launch free on ps+... looking at the ps3 I'm sure AAA games will come but I think you should let the AAA game library grow a little more before you start crying about it.
Don't forget these guys release ps4, psvita, and ps3 games for ps+ every month. So waiting for AAA games on the ps4 can wait until they are ready. They already revolutionized gaming with this service that even x box adopted it...lets not get too greedy and start complaining about stuff we get for free. We should be happy this service exists.
It's introduced gamers to games they would otherwise have never played....and even helped millions of gamers have a backlog of games....just 3 years ago I never had a backlog...now I got games I forgot I had because my backlog is so huge. I have a vita ps3 and 4...so yeah when I'm out of money and beat a game I can go into my library and sift through what game I want to try..not sift through what game I want to sell to games stop for 3 buck each to have enough to buy a game.

[vacoby5]

@Kingthrash not sure if your comment is directed at me.. but I am not complaining and yes plus is a great service. I was defending lelo's stance that the offerings on ps4 plus should be better. Yes it's 2 game per month each platform, but it used to be more games each month on top of an "instant games collection" that I believe changed every few months were you got them free as well with plus (that's how I got many of the big aaa releases on vita). All I'm saying is as more people subscribe to a service, the more features will be downgraded and there is no reason knack, lego, killzone, others couldn't be free. Thief was free a month ago on ps3 why couldn't that have been the ps4 version? NBA 2K14 was free during the finals last year on ps3, why not the ps4 version? You can't use ps4 just came out as an excuse anymore like many have, it's going on 2 yrs and has enough games to put an aaa title on ps4 at least every other month. I understand your argument as well though.

[RealFry]

@ Griever

"The service is for offering us multitplayer and exclusive promotions/discounts. "

Except that their online isn't really providing the greatest service as the frequent PSN shutdowns show. We seem to be just paying for access to multiplayer only, Sony has been slow to upgrade it's infrastructure which is even more important than the "free" games they give, which IMO for the most part besides a few standouts like Infamous Last Light standalone DLC, Outlast and prob Transistor don't really seem that great. The discounts with PS plus as well arent that big a deal, unless they are taken advantage of on the holidays, the regular sales with PS plus are marginal usually 10% or less. I find the PSN flash sales alot better and they are for everyone. I'd use the 10% code they gave recently to everyone on PSN to pickup Helldivers, but thats about it.

[taylork37]

@Griever

The original point of PS+ while it was FREE was for free games and discounts.

Now they force you to pay for it. Not sure why that should curb our expectations.

With that said, because we have to have PS+ to play online, they have less incentive to give us these free games. They don't have to sell the PS+ service anymore because it is required.

[steven83r]

We were promised quality games with our PS+ subscription. So far it has been a place for indie developers to off load their games in hopes we like it and will purchase the next game they make. Which is fine but Xbox Live is always giving away AA/AAA games for their subscribers. Still waiting on DriveClub.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

I'm ok with the state of free games offered on PS4's PS+ (well, not really, but I understand the library needs maturation to reach that ideal point where they can offer the best old games) but I can easily see the problem is discounts.

PSN had gave some nice discounts so far, but mainly through flash sales. PS+ exclusive discounts either focus on the same indie crap we expect to see/had seen for free on the service before (seriously, is a plus member had skipped on a game for free, why they expect us to get it on a discount?) or are gone too fast, just like flash sales... Seriously, start working on those discounts on AAA games and make it stay through a whole month, just like the free game offer. I know I had missed some very good flash sales because I was away from home for a weekend or something.

So I can understand if they don't think they can go and deliver last year's best games for free, but it's about time we see thos 25% off or more becoming regular.

[kstap33]

I didn't like dishonored. Than again I can't stand gta games, so what do I know 😉

[bloop]

I downloaded Dishonoured when it was free on GWG there a while back and I couldn't get into it at all either. I don't know what it was about it but it just didn't pull me in. I could see there was a good game there but it didn't click with me.

[deadpoolio316]

I thought the game it self was alright, not the jizz yourself masterpiece some people try to claim it is...BUT the damn loading screens, Jesus if there is one thing that can put you off its the loading screens...Wanna go through a door loading, wanna walk down this alley, loading...Its almost as bad as Riddick, that game wanted to load every 5 feet

[Immorals]

Splashed out on the special edition, sold on the steampunk world, and the character models reminded me of timesplitters.

Hated it, I'd go as far as saying I despised it. Real shame, had promise!

[hangdang]

I was not a fan of Dishonored. I made it about five or six hours before I stopped playing. I would not call it a masterpiece

[kupomogli]

Dishonored is garbage, but that's just my opinion. I played to where you have to rescue/kidnap the one scientist with the health potion name and just couldn't take playing it anymore.

It was pretty cool at the beginning when it was more linear, but when it opened up, it turned into searching around for useless gold and skills because if you killed people you'd get the bad ending.

It was easy enough to sneak around everyone, but if you got caught, it was as simple as just teleporting away and wait until they started to return where they came from and then knock them out one by one. If you went around and killed everyone, the difficulty would have been a joke. And all this is playing on the easy "hard" difficulty.

The premise of the story was good, the story itself? No. Good voice acting though, just very boring dialogue and the storyline almost disappears other than go here and kill this person or rescue this person for our cause.

For those that liked Dishonored, I'm going to recommend you Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena which comes free with Escape From Butcher Bay. Similar but better gameplay, and a far better story, just in a futuristic setting. Butcher Bay is the better of the two but since you can play Dark Athena for free, why not?

[DarkOcelet]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[modelgod]

@DarkOcelet " dishonored is a masterpiece? " lol!!! Kill zone? Lol! Oh my!

[DarkLordMalik]

Whoa Dave was cross-buy so it shouldn't be counted, and was basically free already on PS+ for Vita. I am sure there will be two new titles this PS+ and not Whoa Dave + another release.

[Get_crazy]

Yeah, the article isn't accurate. In the PlayStation Podcast, they actually said that Woah Dave! is releasing next month on PS4 and it'll be free for those who already have it on Vita (because it'll be Cross-Buy). He said that it's not a PS Plus game per say, more like a "secret" PS Plus game (he said that as a joke).

[CBaoth]

Thank god because I was about to blast Sony for including an Atari 2600 title as one of the month's PS4 freebies. It's ok as a title for portables but not for the big screen.

[Mr Logic]

This is wrong. It's coming out free for people that didn't get the Vita version. And it is launching March 31st so it doesn't count as an April title, that's what he meant by secret.

[Youngindy21]

Xbox Games with Gold is better. Playstation Plus has been sucking lately, what with all the Indie games.

[PCGamingNoobs]

IDARB

[Zichu]

April is Pool Nation FX and Child of Light on the X1. The 360 is getting Terraria, Gears of War Judgement, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, and Army Of Two The Devils Cartel.

[pivotplease]

In other words the X1 line up is pretty mediocre and indie-focused while the 360 line up is decent. We've seen tons of amazing PS3 line ups though and far better PS4 line ups despite the small library. I would say ps plus has been amazing every month since December so far. The best thing x1 has gotten is guacamelee and rayman..both are kind of old platformers. Ps4 has had a retail game, infamous first light, and most of the highest rated indies on the market.

[CernaML]

X1 GWG isnt exactly dripping with AAA titles either.

[pivotplease]

Not sure where the disagreeing fools are springing from. Maybe they need to re-evaluate the lists for every month so far. They pretty much let the competitions merits go over their head on purpose and just assume GWG is actually decent.

[andibandit]

And just how should that make anyone happier?.

[S2Killinit]

@youngind21

Ummm yeah no:

http://www.listwar.com/ps-p...

[hades07]

In no way has Xbox one games with gold been better. I only own a Xbox one and continously jealous of more than one game a month on ps4, often times 3 with cross buy.

[pivotplease]

Yeah my friend with an Xbox has been jealous literally every month for one reason or another. First it was outlast, then Isaac, then transistor, then oddworld, then resogun and Infamous. The list goes on.

[Pogmathoin]

Fight over awesome freebies.... only here...X1 getting mediocre game... COL, is fantastic.... only a fanboy could say mediocre....

[OB1Biker]

LOL wtf?
we dont even know what PS+ games we get and you already start lame trolling.
I would agree that this months is great for 360 owners though and thats good for them as lately they were just getting games PS+ gave a year ago

[Loktai]

360 getting since major love, great gwg lineup

[bouzebbal]

not sure i like it.. looking forward to the rest of the line up.
it's weird PS3 doesn't get much PS+ deals anymore. i remember about a year ago we got at least one AAA every month. Hitman, Bioshock infinite, MG: Rising, Sleeping Dogs, DmC...

[seppo91]

Dishonored, Thief and Yakuza are both AAA.
And thats just recent games.
Yakuza is probably more niche but still AAA.

[Xaphy]

Except Thief isn't AAA.

[bouzebbal]

yes but PS+ releases aren't as impressive as they were a year ago.
PS3 has a massive library, don't know why they dont keep them big games coming.

[Loktai]

@Xaphy

AAA has nothing to do with reviews. It is AAA and a major multiplat release.

It's AAA weather or not you like it, or if yes sorry shitty it's not up for debate.

[Der_Kommandant]

For whatever reason i've never played Dishonored, and i don't know when i'll be able to play it because of this game you may heard about called Bloodborne

[plmkoh]

Don't think I will renew my PS plus, for veterans of it you don't get much benefit anymore because you've played everything. For new users into the PS system this is a great addition to the library.

[Dark_Overlord]

I wouldn't even have plus if it wasn't forced on the PS4 :/

[plmkoh]

Yep but at least you have a reason, I'm not a big multiplayer user, so I get little to no benefit. For example because of PS plus on top of normal purchasing habits I have 3 copies of digital Dead Nation across different regions of accounts. It's become excess rather than an essential.

[Hoffmann]

Yay at Dishonored ..Meh at Woah Dave.

[princejb134]

This is what I think about woah Dave zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Give me something I can actually play sony

[gamerfan0909]

Wow the indies keep coming.

[DeadManMMX]

Arrrrgh dishonored. The memories of carefully going through the game not killing anybody going for the achievement. Getting all the way to the last couple of levels only for one of the rooftop ninja guys I choked out to glitch and fall through the roof of the building and die. Curse you Unreal Engiiii e!!! Still. Great game.

[InMyOpinion]

Woah Dave looks worse than #IDARB. I hope the rest of the games are better.

[KentBlake]

That is not accurate at all. What they said on the Blogcast is that Whoa Dave is cross-buy, so every Plus member who got it for free will also get the PS4 version. But they clearly said that it's not one of the "official" Plus games for the month.

[H1t_Monster]

And that's the reason for forcing PS+ on multiplayer,they knew they had nothing good to offer for ps4 subscribers and also knew people wouldn't renew their subscription with crap offerings. People we are playing Atari 2600 games on a 8th gen console, WTF Sony keep your shit of a game you just spat in my face with that piece of shit. Xbox gold is stepping their game up.I guess I'll save fifty dollars on November and put that money towards an X1.

[Brooklynbully123]

Garbage game, next!

[ThunderPulse]

Exactly! WTF is with the PS Plus quality declining ever since the PS4 release.

[vikingland1]

I have GWG and PS+ for my XB1 and PS4. Personally I don't care for the whole 8 bit indy games we get offerd. I've been gaming since 1978 and I don't want games that I played for many years already. I prefer a 3D game worlds to pixels any day. I think it's ok to have the pixel games on offer for those who like them. But for my subscriptions I prefer the better looking games.

[etownone]

Garbage.

XB Gold definitely wins month of April

[Nekroo91]

Its not even official, Woah Dave is a crossplay title so its missing a game for the PS4.

[purebennyc]

f@#king clickbait Sh$t!

[GetSomeLoGiK]

I wish there was more AAA titles for PS4, a lot of the games they put out I don't really play. Then again, free is free so I shouldn't really complain.

[StormLegend]

This isn't everything, we still gotta see the other free PS4 game, hopefully it's an AAA game.

[killer4fun53]

It's not even the 1st ps4 + game ,woahDave is cross buy with vita.plus members had it For vita months ago

[admiralvic]

The worst part about this post is that the blogcast might be confusing, but it made a couple of things perfectly clear.

1) They outright say it's free this month, which they knew was March and logically means Woah Dave! PS4 will release on March 31, 2015.
2) It was mentioned that it wasn't an "official Plus title," which obviously meant it isn't considered part of the months (be it April or March) offering.

[Relientk77]

If you havn't played Dishonored here's your chance

The game is amazing

[captainexplosion]

Woah Dave can't be correct because it was already given out on Vita & it's crossbuy. I think it's probably just a bonus for people who didn't DL the Vita version. The game was terrible.

[admiralvic]

It isn't. The blogcast simply revealed that Woah Dave is free this (meaning it's probably March, not April...) month and isn't an "official" title.

[64commando]

This month sucks for PS4. Cmon Sony its been a year and a half since PS4 launch!

[Newsert]

I'm ready for a AAA game for my PS4. I'm tired of indie games being the only free games offered. Even though last months games were pretty kick ass. I really liked Valient Hearts.

[hazelamy]

damn, i like retro pixel graphics as much as the next girl, but that looks like an atari 2600 game.

[Rimeskeem]

We have come to a time where getting free games is apparently bad.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

They're not free we pay monthly for them, as soon as you stop paying they're taken away. So definitely not free.

[Rimeskeem]

We pay 50$ a year to play online, the games are just a bonus. You could look at it in different ways.

[Clown_Syndr0me]

I see it as a package. I'm paying for all of it. Nothing is free anymore sadly.

[Rimeskeem]

I always try to look at things in positive percepectives that give me or the surrounding people the most

[Tankbusta40]

So far ps plus for ps 4 has been pretty lackluster... With the exception of the show Powers... Which has turned out to be pretty decent.

[jaixvx]

Who does sony think they are? Microsoft?? haha

[life28]

f**k again not a single AAA game for PS4. SONY is trolling us with this shitty indies????????

[AstroCyborg]

another crappy indie that i'll never play

[Scatpants]

Woah Dave is terrible.

[SmilyProductions]

http://youtu.be/TJGxkHOFrno

What do you think of this super short horror film?

[PurpHerbison]

ResidentSleeper

[22CobraKing]

It's not part of the instant game collection it's just going to be free for ps plus members. Xbox players where already claiming the win on best ges but hey thought.

[Psytrix]

Meh..