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Free PS4 PS Plus Games Of July 2018 Are Still Available

PS Plus subscribers can now grab six more free games across Sony's platforms.

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We're now in August, but the batch of free titles for PlayStation Plus subscribers in July remains available. As per usual, July's PS Plus lineup consists of six games divided up across PS4, PS3, and Vita, all of which are available to download at no charge until August's games arrive on August 7. [Update: With the deadline for picking up July's games approaching, Sony has announced August's free PS Plus games. There are some bonus ones included, getting you as many as eight games.]

Headlining PS4's selection of freebies is Heavy Rain, the narrative-driven game from Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream. Heavy Rain originally launched for PS3 back in 2010 and was re-released on Sony's current-gen console in 2016. Joining it is Absolver, a unique and flexible third-person adventure/fighting game in which players can fully customize their fighting style.

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Now Playing: PlayStation Plus Free July Games Live

On the PS3 side, Plus subscribers can now download the classic 3D platformer Rayman 3 HD, as well as Extreme Exorcism, a retro-style platformer in which players hunt their own ghosts. Extreme Exorcism is available in place of Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess, which was initially announced to be one of this month's free PS Plus titles. The game is also playable on PS4 via Cross-Buy.

Finally, Vita owners can download the acclaimed adventure game Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma and the action game Space Overlords for free this month. Like Extreme Exorcism, the latter also supports Cross-Buy with PS4, getting you four possible freebies on that platform in July.

All of the aforementioned games will remain free to download for PS Plus members until next month, when they'll return to their regular prices. You can see the full list of July's free PS Plus games below.

July 2018 PS Plus Games

PS4

  • Absolver
  • Extreme Exorcism (Cross-Buy)
  • Heavy Rain
  • Space Overlords (Cross-Buy)

PS3

  • Extreme Exorcism
  • Rayman 3 HD
  • Space Overlords (Cross-Buy)

Vita

  • Space Overlords
  • Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

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Mafia 3 and Dead by Dawn seem like solid titles for August.

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Ps4 has the Monopoly, no modes is mandatory, so they practically Force us to feed on trash.

Why? Because they can? And how did they know? Because xbox360 took the profit edge for charging MP...

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Why are these articles on a recycle loop????

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Got Heavy Rain and Absolver. Heard good things about Absolver so cant wait to try it out. Heavy Rain was one of my favourite PS3 games so replaying through it will be fun.

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Not very good selection this month...but, oh well. Can't have good games every single month!

(Normally, I wouldn't comment on something like this, but I really felt something else needed to be said...that's totally unrelated to this article)

PLEASE, GAMESPOT, STOP POSTING THE RIDICULOUSLY WORTHLESS AND INNANE "POTATO MODE" VIDEOS!

Whew! I feel better now. (And if you're going to ask the silly question about "why did I post it in this thread"? Remember, clicks = interest. If you click the article, they may incorrectly infer that you are interested in it! No clicky = no likey)

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Dang it. Was looking forward to Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess

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Extremely disappointing. The only game listed that I actually wanted to play was replaced without warning.

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Why did they replace Deception IV: The Nightmare Princess :(

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@alien33: That's what I want to know. It's the only game on the list that I actually wanted to play. I even decided to hook up my PS3 for it.

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You forgot to put (Cross-Buy) next to PS3 version of Extreme Exorcism. Just saying :)

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@siarhei: Who still uses a Vita or PS3 though? They should just offer Backwards compatible titles playable on PS4 and be done with it.

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@deviltaz35: Vita is my dedicated Persona 4 Golden player since day 1.

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@deviltaz35:

i do.

why are they limiting who can use these?

Plenty of people MAY still own a ps3 and vita?

What about the people that MAY not own a ps4?

What about people that MAY only own a vita?

What about people that MAY only own a ps3?

All of the above MAY still pay the premium?

By your logic and comment those very people should not be given free games, just the ps4 players,

To be fair fella/sister your pretty narrow minded, if you did own a ps3 you wouldn't be making the comment you have, maybe your an xbot?

And you're already aware of the backwards compatibility issues with the ps4 so how can it run the backwards titles as you already know and why would Sony offer them if the ps4 cant run them?

Your comment makes no sense or you dont own Sony products.

:)

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@deviltaz35: PS4 can't do backwards compatibility with PS3 games due to the complexity of the PS3's Cell processor. Monster PCs still have problems emulating it. The PS4 stands no chance.

I don't understand how there are so many people who go on video game sites that still don't know this.

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@abehpfan: I know it , i have the original PS3 for all my PS2 games. . It doesn't change the fact that they are limiting the people that can use these despite everyone paying the same premium per month though.

That's all i really meant.

It's not really the complexity of the cell it's more because it is a Risc based processor . The main reason it was so difficult to program was because Sony only allowed select developers full access to dev kits something they at least changed from PS4 onwards thank god.

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@deviltaz35: My PS3 is still hooked up and I still use my Vita just as much as my Switch lmao.

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@arlanzo: lol i've never owned a Vita and to be honest wish i never bought a Switch. The store is just full of indie crap.

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@deviltaz35: I do.

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@deviltaz35: I have PS3 plugged in as I have a huge backlog and I don't want to buy the same games again for PS4.

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@deviltaz35: Tell that to Sony :)

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