With the world in the middle of a global pandemic that’s led to travel restrictions, toilet paper shortages, and the closure of major events worldwide includingE3 2020 being canceled, more and more people are being forced to self-quarantine, work from home, and avoid going out in public whenever possible. All this time at home means more time to play great games and catch up on the backlog of missed games, (though everyone should be putting their health and health of others first), so it’s important that Sony brings the goods each month with PlayStation Plus for this and a variety of other reasons. Here’s our complete PS Plus free games wish list for April 2020.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Sony began the year of PS Plus withUncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, a remastered collection of the first three games in the series. With developerNaughty Dog’s next big game,The Last of Us Part 2a little over two months away from being released, there’s another great spin-off game that didn’t receive quite the same love as its numbered predecessors and would be a fantastic pick as a PS Plus title for anyone that missed it:Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Originally announced as a single-player story DLC forUncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Naughty Dog’s vision and goals forUncharted: The Lost Legacyquickly became far too ambitiousand became its own standalone game. Stepping away from Nathan Drake, this time around Chloe Fraser is the star of the show in search of the legendary tusk of Ganesh in India’s Western Ghats.Uncharted: The Lost Legacyis a smaller, personal story that proved there’s life in the series with or without its central protagonist.
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Guacamelee! 2
There are few indie developers around that are as simultaneously revered and underrated as the Toronto based Drinkbox Studios. Making a name for itself during the age of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita, Drinkbox is best known for indie hits such asTales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack,Guacamelee!, andSevered, and currently the only game that hasn’t been released on PS Plus is the 2018Metroidvania platformer,Guacamelee! 2.
Players take control of Juan Aguacate, a luchador a.k.a. a Mexican professional wrestler, on a quest to save the “Mexiverse” from Salvador, a corrupted luchador from the Darkest Timeline. In ourGuacamelee! 2review, we praised the sequel for being “bigger and better than the first game while retaining the original’s charm, humor, eye-catching art style, and rewarding Metroidvania-style gameplay.”
Guacamelee! 2is available now for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
When Telltale Games released the critically acclaimed first season ofTelltale’s The Walking Deadback in 2012, the video game landscape was changed forever. And while subsequent seasons never quite reached the heights of the first one, it didn’t feel any less devastating whenTelltale Games closed in 2018, halfway through the development ofTelltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Luckily, the season was later saved by publisher Skybound, and as a celebration of the series, lead to the development and release of a complete collection calledThe Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Seriesincludes all four complete seasons, as well as the400 DaysDLC episode for the first season, andThe Walking Dead: Michonne, a three-episode side story about the titular character. On top of that, all previous seasons were remastered using The Final Season’s new rendering system, high-definition texture mapping, improved character models, improved lip-syncing, improved lighting, and over ten hours of developer commentary. Many people missed out on the final season of Clementine’s story due to the closure of Telltale Games and this could be the perfect way to honor the series legacy.
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Seriesis available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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Hollow Knight
Earlier this week, Xbox players were treated with therelease ofOri and the Will of the Wisps, the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed 2015 platformer/MetroidvaniaOri and the Blind Forest. Currently sitting at a score of 90 on Metacritic for Xbox One, Moon Studios has managed to outdo itself, surpassing its predecessor and leaving PlayStation users in the dust. That is unless Sony decides to release another popular Metroidvania on PS Plus in April following the success ofOri and the Will of the Wisps,one that Moon Studios took heavy inspiration from -Hollow Knight.
Created by Australian developer Team Cherry,Hollow Knightis a 2D Metroidvania action-adventure game that tells the story of an insectoid Knight that’s set out to uncover the secrets of a long-abandoned underground insect kingdom called Hallownest. Team Cherry combined elements of games likeSuper Metroid, Celeste,andDark Soulsto create this challenging but rewarding experience where players must make there way into the depths of Hallownest, discover new regions, defeat bosses, and learn how to perfectly execute attacks and traversal.
Hollow Knightis available now for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
PlayStation Plusmembers receive two free games every month with their subscription.
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