JOLT
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September 24th 2023
September 20th 2023
Free Games in May 2022
PS+ Free Games (Available on the First Tuesday of the Month):
FIFA 22 | PS5, PS4
Powered by Football, EA Sports FIFA 22 brings the game even closer to the real thing with gameplay advances across every mode. Build your dream squad in Ultimate Team, Create Your Club in Career Mode, and express yourself in style on the streets with reimagined Volta Football gameplay. Enjoy local or online competitive multiplayer matches on PS4 and PS5****, while the power of PS5 makes every match even more real with groundbreaking next-gen HyperMotion technology. With big innovation all over the pitch, it’s time to start your FIFA 22 season!
PlayStation Plus members can kickstart their brand-new Ultimate Team or bolster their existing squad with the PlayStation Plus FUT Pack for FIFA 22 Ultimate Team. This pack includes 11 players rated 82 or above to help build your dream squad in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, as well as an Icon Moments Loan Player Pick, allowing you to choose between some of the best ballers in history and add one of three to your squad for five games.
Tribes of Midgard | PS4 & PS5
Tribes of Midgard blends survival and ARPG genres into a colorful co-op**** or solo experience set within the universe of Norse mythology. As an Einherjar, returned to life by Odin himself, you and your tribe of up to 10 players will need to defend the Seed of Yggdrasil from evil forces set on bringing about Ragnarök. Together, you will have to venture out and explore the wilderness of Midgard to gather the resources, materials, and hidden treasures essential to forging new weapons, epic armor, and fortifying your village. Your greatest threats lie hidden throughout Midgard in the form of giants and great beasts of Norse legend. Will you be able to conquer these forces, save the Seed, and escape before the onset of Fimbulwinter?
Curse of the Dead Gods | PS4
In this skill-based, single player roguelike, explore an accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters. Your greed will lead you to death, but that is not an escape. Rise to fight again. Collect mystical Relics and an arsenal of weapons to make yourself unstoppable, but each powerful curse can be a double-edged sword, creating unique curses that influence your playstyle on every attempt. Defy the malignant deities that linger in this place. Battle through hordes of enemies in dark, cavernous passages filled with traps and secrets of all sorts – fire-spewing statues, explosives, hidden spikes, and worse.
Amazon Prime Gaming (Available on the 1st of the Month):
Dead Space 2 — Return as Isaac Clark to explore The Sprawl and its zero-g environments as players uncover the truth behind the Unitology’s role in the Necromorph epidemic.
The Curse of Monkey Island — Guybrush Threepwood returns to take up the dull blade and his rapier wit against the nefarious demon-pirate LeChuck in the highly anticipated third installment of LucasArts’ popular Monkey Island series.
Out of Line — Play as San who goes on a quest to escape the Factory that was once home in this distinctive hand-drawn 2D adventure game filled with charming puzzles.
Mail Mole + ‘Xpress Deliveries — Dig through Carrotland as Molty, the speediest delivery mole, as he embarks on his quest to save his magical world by making new friends, finding collectibles, solving puzzles and more.
Cat Quest — Purr for joy with this multi award-winning action RPG which brings loot-fueled cat-venture to all players with ultra satisfying combat and magic.
Shattered — Tale of the Forgotten King — With the disappearance of the King, the old world begins to fall apart. Reforge reality in this shadowy action RPG as players traverse this innovative open world platformer.
XBox Games with Gold:
Yoku’s Island Express ($19.99 ERP): Available May 1 to 31
The Inner World – The Last Wind Monk ($19.99 ERP): Available May 16 to June 15
Hydro Thunder Hurricane ($9.99 ERP): Available May 1 to 15
Viva Piñata Party Animals ($9.99 ERP): Available May 16 to 31
Epic Games Store:
Just Die Already - Free Apr 28 - May 05
Paradigm - Free Apr 28 - May 05
Terraforming Mars - Free May 05 - May 12
Free Games in April 2022
PS+ Free Games (Available on the First Tuesday of the Month):
Hood: Outlaws & Legends | PS4 & PS5 - Hood: In this intense online multiplayer title, rival gangs compete in daring heists to hit the wealthy where it hurts. One of the different game modes is State Heist: a full coop PvE mode where teams control spawn points to recuperate as much gold as possible. In Gold Rush PvPvE mode however, two teams of four players battle it out in an attempt to execute the perfect heist, stealing and extracting treasure while fighting each other and the AI Guards. Equipped with unique skills and mystical abilities, each character moves in stealth to steal treasures unseen. It’s up to you to recruit your band of outlaws, master formidable fortresses and outplay your rivals.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated | PS4 - The classic platformer returns, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and use their unique sets of skills to thwart Plankton’s evil plan to rule Bikini Bottom with his army of wacky robots. Meet countless characters from the beloved series and enjoy horde mode for up to two players, online2 and offline.
Slay the Spire | PS4 - Embark on a journey up the ever-changing Spire, in this fantasy deckbuilder adventure that fuses together card games and roguelikes. Craft a unique deck from hundreds of cards to efficiently dispatch foes and reach the top. Discover powerful relics to enhance your deck’s powers to help you overcome different enemies and bosses.
Last chance to download March’s PlayStation Plus games: You’ve until Monday, April 4 to add Ark: Survival Evolved, Team Sonic Racing, Ghostrunner (PS5 version only) and Ghost of Tsushima: Legends4 to your game library.
Last chance to download Persona 5 from the PS Plus Collection: Persona 5 will leave the PS Plus Collection on May 11. Add the game to your game library before then to continue to access it while you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription5.
Amazon Prime Gaming (Available on the 1st of the Month):
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion — Game of the Year Edition Deluxe — Unravel the quests of one of the best RPGs of all time like never before by stepping into the richly detailed world full of freeform gameplay and unprecedented graphics.
Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville — Prepare to kick some grass in a crazy, coniferous conflict between the brain-less and botanicals that will take players on a journey to the outer edges of Neighborville and back again.
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ — Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in this LucasArts’ fan-favorite adventure game.
Nanotale — Typing Chronicles — In the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory, players can become a young activist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth of what is wrong with the heart of magic.
Guild of Ascension — Craft weapons, befriend critters, encounter bizarre creatures and experience much more in this tactical-action-RPG with rogue-lite elements, mixing turn-based combat with real-time action combo systems.
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion — Play as an adorable yet trouble-making turnip who avoids paying taxes by solving plantastic puzzles, harvesting crops and battling massive beasts all in a journey to tear down a corrupt vegetable government.
Galaxy of Pen and Paper — Create your very own game master and RPG party in the year of 1999! As characters roleplay, they will explore distant planets in their imagination, fight weird aliens and save the galaxy in the era of dial-up internet and floppy disks.
House of 1000 Doors: Family Secrets — Guide Kate Reed through four mind-bending mysteries that take her to worlds she’s never imagined on her quest to help the dead.
XBox Games with Gold:
Another Sight ($29.99 ERP): Available April 1 to 30
Hue ($14.99 ERP): Available April 16 to May 15
Outpost Kaloki X ($9.99 ERP): Available April 1 to 15
MX vs ATV Alive ($19.99 ERP): Available April 16 to 30
Epic Games Store:
City of Brass - Free Mar 31 - Apr 07
Total War: WARHAMMER - Free Mar 31 - Apr 07
Rogue Legacy - Free Apr 07 - Apr 14
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Free Apr 07 - Apr 14
March 5th, 2022
Free Games in March 2022
PS+ Free Games (Available on the First Tuesday of the Month):
Ark: Survival Evolved | PS4
Team Sonic Racing | PS4
Ghostrunner | PS5
Ghost of Tsushima: Legends | PS4 & PS5
Amazon Prime Gaming (Available on the 1st of the Month):
Madden NFL 22 — Gameday happens here. All-new features like Next Gen Stats star-drive AI and immersive Dynamic Gameday deliver the most authentic gameplay experience ever. Extend your Madden experience with Ultimate Team rewards for Prime members and check back each month to claim your packs.
Surviving Mars — Overcome challenges and execute strategies to improve your colony’s chances of survival on Mars while unlocking the many mysteries of this alien world.
Crypto Against All Odds — Take on the role of a cybersecurity expert in this tower defense game where players will fight against hackers and other blockchain threats set in this cypherpunk interactive fiction.
looK INside — Play as Manon, a character who discovers a book in the attic which reveals the past of her family members through their memories, gestures, quirks and little secrets.
Pesterquest — Embark on a quest of epic importance in a grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck / Hiveswap universe where players will zap between Earth and Alternia making friends as they go.
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech — Lead a party of aspiring heroes through a beautifully hand-drawn world and intense battles using only a player’s wits and a handful of cards.
The Stillness of the Wind — Play as Talma, a character who is approaching her final years by living out her simple way of life by tending to her homestead, surviving, subsisting, whilst increasingly disturbing letters arrive from her family in the city.
XBox Games with Gold:
The Flame in the Flood ($19.99 ERP): Available March 1 to 31
Street Power Soccer ($29.99 ERP): Available March 16 to April 15
Sacred 2 Fallen Angel ($19.99 ERP): Available March 1 to 15
SpongeBob’s Truth or Square ($19.99 ERP): Available March 16 to 31
Epic Games Store:
Cris Tales - Free Now - Mar 03 at 09:00 AM
Black Widow: Recharged - Free Mar 03 - Mar 10
Centipede: Recharged - Free Mar 03 - Mar 10
Epic Slayer Kit - Free Mar 03 - Mar 10
Cities: Skylines - Free Mar 11 - Mar 17
In Sound Mind - Free Mar 17 - Mar 24
DEMON'S TILT - Free until Mar 31 at 09:00 AM