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PS4's PS Plus Free Games Of January Still Available

Start the year off with some free games.

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We're nearing the end of January, but it's not too late to grab the free games that are now available for PlayStation Plus subscribers. January's allotment of free PS Plus games are still out on the PlayStation Store, meaning that titles like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Batman: The Telltale Series have temporarily dropped to the low, low price of free for paying subscribers.

Mankind Divided is the headlining PS4 freebie this month. The dystopian cyberpunk role-playing game casts you as Adam Jensen and tasks you with catching a terrorist group, which you can do by being a stealthy detective or a tech-enhanced killing machine, or some mixture of both. As for Telltale's Batman game, this is the first season of the story and puts players in tricky situations as both Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego. The decisions you make will have some consequence on the relationships around you, and the overall story.

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Now Playing: Free PS4/PS3/Vita PlayStation Plus Games For January 2018 Revealed

Other PS4 freebies in January include the wacky and fun party game That's You! (if you're outside of North America) and StarBlood Arena (which requires PlayStation VR). Additionally, PS Vita's free games, Uncanny Valley and Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness, are both free on PS4, too. You may have to "purchase" Psycho-Pass on PS4 and PS Vita separately, however, since it is not normally part of Sony's Cross-Buy scheme. Note that in Europe and Australia, Psycho-Pass is only free on PS Vita, not PS4. Finally, PS3 owners get Sacred 3 and The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 for free.

You can see January 2018's full PS Plus lineup--covering PS4, PS3, and Vita--below, or you can claim them on the PlayStation Store. February's games have not yet been announced, but that news will likely be coming on January 31, with a release following on February 6.

January 2018 Free PS Plus Games

PS4

  • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
  • Batman: The Telltale Series
  • StarBlood Arena (PS VR required)
  • Uncanny Valley
  • That's You! (Europe and Australia only)
  • Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (US only)

PS3

  • Sacred 3
  • Book of Unwritten Tales 2

PS Vita

  • Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness
  • Uncanny Valley

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PS4 For the WIN !

Xbox Z for the Lost !

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@pharoe777: Actually his comment made you cry. Do you need a tissue? Do you need a hug? X flop sucks, get over it.

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@pharoe777: nah actually you did. That's why you responded to his comment in the first place. Triggered much?

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@pharoe777: Were not crying ! We Bought the RIGHT Video Game Console, You didn't.

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@pharoe777: No you're an x bot fanboy.

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@pharoe777: Get a new comeback, you've used that one 4 times, and it was completely unoriginal the first time.

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@pharoe777: you're making yourself look like one LOL

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@pharoe777: Don't call your self that !

BREAKING NEWS : Get a FREE Happy meal when you buy a Crap Box Y Zero. This offer will last FOREVER, Because Xbox is sooooo behind: PC, Nintendo, and PLAYSTATION.

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@pharoe777: lol i even got the new Atari gold with the save ability . Pretty cool little thing.

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@pharoe777: Playstation Runs the Tissue store for Xbox. Xbox is their Best customer !

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@Terminator95: It's odd there is so much talk lately about PS5 though as based on sales they won't be in any hurry. Personally i prefer the Xbox one X . I have a Pro as well but it doesn't even come close graphically to the X . Just playing Elite Dangerous in 4k on the X is streets ahead of the 1080p version on the Pro which i do have as well.

I guess it depends what you prefer playing but personally i have barely touched the Pro since the X was released.

Just based on the games i like to play the X just does it better, I did enjoy Nioh the most on PS4 Pro and i think that was cruelly disregarded by too many people for being a Dark Souls clone.

It is easily one of the best games on the PS4 bar none.

Another stunner is Assassins Creed Origins, it looked good on the Pro but it looks incredible on the X and even better after the latest patch to increase textures and draw distance to even better levels due to the increased memory on offer.

Hitman is another one that just looks significantly better in 4k on the X compared to the Pro

Sure the PS4 pro has exclusives but personally i couldn't get into most of them anyway including Horizon Zero Dawn. It just never grabbed me.

In any case it is great to see consoles starting to reach PC like levels of graphical fidelity in key areas such as resolution.

The Pro on the other hand is really best suited to native 1440p though the checkerboard rending approach does work well in alot of games i'm not really a fan due to the cross hatch effect that is almost always present in things like running water in environments and other small detailed objects such as overhanging wires etc.

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@deviltaz35: PS4 PRO> x flop x

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@deviltaz35: You missed one part ! All the games for XBOX, One, X, CAN be played on a MORE Powerful Computer !

Sony Playstation Games CAN NOT be played on a Computer.

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@Terminator95: Haha, I don't agree with the sentiment, but that was devilishly funny.

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@domiddian: =)

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You have to add the need for speed 2015 so kids can easily play on their gaming pc.

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The games ain't free. If ps+ sub is over you can't play them. Why they call it as free games?

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@GabrielX-X: Probably because stating ''free only to subscribers while subscribed'' is too much writing :)

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@GabrielX-X: What's your point? This is the same on every console subscription service for "free" current gen games...

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@GabrielX-X: "It's the start of a new month--and a new year--which means more free games are now available for PlayStation Plus subscribers" L2R my friend. I know its hard these days bc of short attention spans etc.

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@GabrielX-X: Agree. The price isn't free. The price is maintaining a PSN sub.

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@CyberEarth: IF you want to play online then you have to pay for PS Plus. Now here are some games that you didn't have to pay for as a reward for paying for to play online.

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@CyberEarth: Which had a massive discount around Xmas time anyway :).

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@GabrielX-X: Yawn

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@sickie: He is telling the trueth so.>Yawn because you have heard it that much?

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Can't complain about Deus Ex for free.

Edit- although this is GameSpot so someone definitely will

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@muzza93: Not me, I've been trying to get one of my friends to play it and now he has no excuse. Legit game

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@DeadlyMustard: Just having a game doesn't mean he will play it. A worldwide backlog of 800 million unplayed games prove it

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Why didn't they release - Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness - on PS4 as well ?

Would have been fitting and nice on the big screen.

DX:MD is a great game probably to get as a freebie, though I was going to get it for PC... oh well.

Not excited about another Tell Tale episodic visual novel ..

So overall I am a bit disappointed.
I only started my PS+ last December to play some coop in Nioh ( 1 year subscription).

I would much rather have good PS exclusive games - that you can't get on other platforms and that work and look well on the console.

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@GunEye: Can't please everyone I suppose. For me the visual novel is perfect, since I don't usually buy them when they come out. Deus Ex I've already played. But still, solid month in general...

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@livedreamplay: Agree on the visual novel sentiment though a bit over Batman for a lifetime really lol. I would have preferred Guardians of the Galaxy.

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@deviltaz35: Ha it's pretty good, although I prefer guardians too.

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@livedreamplay: You are right, solid games. I just don't like the hype and derivative repetitive nature of Tell Tale making the same style and visuals of games since The Walking Dead. Tales of Monkey Island was awesome back in the day, The Walking Dead Season 1 I played and liked - and I kinda liked Wolves Among Us. It's just too much and I don't feel like these games.

Don't understand why they didn't give us the Japanese visual novel game with these nice looking cutscenes to the PS4 - guess it's not interchangeable/compatible..

Deux Ex MD is a big game. It has PS4 PRO support from what I hear which is already good.

I just have a Gaming PC as well as a PS4 PRO and I thought about getting DXMD eventually because it constantly gets big time sales and because I would be able to run it at higher resolution, settings and fps.

So I wish they released PS4 exclusives or something like that.

DXMD is 85% off now on Steam.

Wish they gave us something more unique though. Maybe a good Fighter Game like GG XRD Rev 2 or something.

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@GunEye: The only issue is at times the Pro has pretty bad framerate problems on Deus Ex MD. Graphically it looks quite good though. It was one of the earlier patched games for the Pro.

I'd love to see Deus Ex MD remastered for the Xbox one X. It was a great game.

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I will play DX:MD on ps4 before i play it on my pc, I still holding out that they might remove that stupid denuvo drm

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Deus Ex, Starblood Arena, Batman? I will gladly take them for FREE. Gotta love it.

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Nice lineup. I love getting free stuff with a subscription. Looking forward to this month's free movies on Netflix too!

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@RyanBurnsRed: Not very bright are you?

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@onehitta323: I'm brighter than you have common sense. That's all you need to know, now keep throwing money at Sony for those "free" games lol

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@RyanBurnsRed:You didn't grasp the concept of 'free for subscribers' yet?

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@livedreamplay: The movies I get on Netflix are just as free as the games you get with your PS Plus subscription. All you've done is word play the exact same thing I just said.

Looks like you're the one having a hard time grasping the concept.

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@RyanBurnsRed: You're saying the same thing as I did with the Netflix example, yet saying I'm the one having a hard time grasping the concept lmao. Read again and focus.

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@livedreamplay: Um excuse me? You're the one that replied to me lol what are you in dude? I want to avoid it so I don't end up like you. Ever.

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@RyanBurnsRed: I didn't imply you replied to me. You seem to have a hard time grasping basic phrases, so I'm not surprised anymore that you're not getting the "free with subscription" concept...

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@livedreamplay: "You're saying the same thing as I did with the Netflix example"

Yeah, the Netflix example you replied on with your "free with subscription" logic. You have no point, and you're desperately trying to grasp for one. Looks to me like you lack common sense and have a hard time comprehending simple English phrases. You should stop trying.

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@RyanBurnsRed: Let me make this simple for you cause you seem to have a simple mind. If you go to see a movie with $5, and someone tells you "here, have my watch for free", are you going to tell him that it's not free, that you paid $5 for it? Same in our case, as long as you paid the subscription, you will benefit of free things.

The only way in which this logic doesn't make sense is if you take on the "nothing is free" mentality. Even breahting in air costs money, because you pay taxes. But you can imagine why marketing and companies in general don't give into this mentality.

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@livedreamplay: If that's the best analogy you can come up with then I'm sure at this point you're just dumb, and incredibly so. That dumb analogy of yours is in no way equivalent to paying a subscription, and getting your so called "free" games taken away when you stop paying the subscription. You seem to love to gloss over that fact and you completely and entirely missed the point of all my posts altogether. If anyone here is simple minded, it's the ones that come up with the dumbest of analogies to desperately cling to their simple minded thought process of having to constantly PAY to get "free" stuff.

Now if you're done wasting my time with nonsense, stop sending me email notifications to read your retarded dribble.

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@RyanBurnsRed: You realize that pretending like it wasn't a good analogy just makes you look like an even bigger moron, right? Now I'm done wasting your time, I'm sure you have other comments to spew your stupidity in.

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@livedreamplay: lol yeah, I'm pretending that your attempt at trying to compare digital goods from a subscription equals to physical goods without a subscription. Way to completely miss the point, AGAIN. You keep calling me stupid yet you have yet to make a point that's not downright retarded. I'm glad you're done being a dumbass. Go have fun paying for your free games

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@RyanBurnsRed: Lmao you're too stupid to understand what an analogy is, of course I compared different products, if I would've given you an example with digital goods from a subscription we'd be in the exact same place as we are with ps plus.

I apologize for thinking you can understand a simple analogy, I give up, I'm going to go download the game that's not free yet that I don't need to pay for.

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@livedreamplay: You're too stupid to comprehend simple sentences. Your dumb analogy is still dumb and barely qualifies as such. If you feel proud making dumb comparisons at your pitiful IQ level then that's even sadder than you fighting so hard to prove that the games you pay for are free.

Thank the stars you give up. I'd rather pay for PS Plus to rent "free" games than sit through and read more of your facepalm inducing nonsense.

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@RyanBurnsRed: More than feeling proud, I'm feeling sorry for you. Still trying to insult me after you failed to understand a basic comparison is not only pathetic, it's also pitiful. Do a smart thing for once in your life and stop making a fool of yourself here. Netflix has some new arrivals, go see maybe you find one at a great price lmao.

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@livedreamplay: Lol! It's not really FREE is it?

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@jayskoon93: It is free. What's not free is the subscription, but the game itself cost me $0...

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