PS Plus: Free Games for March 2015

Sid Shuman writes: "Another collection of excellent games joins PlayStation Plus this month, and you’ve come to the right place for details!

These games will be available for Plus members when PlayStation Store updates later today."

[Palitera]

Four games on PS4! (two through cross-buy)

Well worth the wait!

[Abash]

Very nice selection, happy to play all of those in the March line-up

[Takwin]

I couldn't be happier with this selection. Wow. I don't want many AAA games because I buy the ones I want on release or on sale way later. I would much rather have multiple indies. If we get AAA titles, I would be totally happy with just a couple a year.

Could you imagine if we averaged even 3 PS+ games per month? 36 games per year? Over 7 years that is 252 games. If you even truly enjoyed 20% of them, that is more gaming than you can probably handle between PS4, Wii U, 3DS, and Steam.

[captainexplosion]

Anyone saying Valiant Hearts is better than Rayman Legends is bias. Rayman Legends is a masterpiece.

[bouzebbal]

amazing selection!! i have Oddworld it's a pure gem.
i prefer the controls of the old one but it looks amazing.
Looking forward to all of these great games

[miyamoto]

Papo and Yo? Full game? This is too good to be true!

Valiant Hearts
Olli
Sherlock
Spy

Super Good!

[Jamesvicky]

Yes, I agree with you. its very nice to play the game

[Gazondaily]

Nice! My backlog increaseth more!

[SolidStoner]

PS+ start to look like a must for PS4 users.. and if sony will continue this every month then I will buy PS+ every year... also they could give us to try out (lets say for 3 days, or 7 days period) some AAA games like battlefield, COD, Watch dogs, GTA and so on... that would be the best way to make people to buy your game!

I remember when I was using PC, I downloaded some games tried them and if I liked them, I buyed them and played happily ever after! :) (I know not good to download things, but what if you cant afford in the first place, so I wanna be very sure what to buy!) :D

[InactiveUser]

I was (and probably still am) looking forward to Oddworld: New N Tasty, but I just watched this comparison/review:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

The reviewer is very informed and makes a lot of good points. New N Tasty seems to still be a good game, but it isn't without its flaws, especially compared to the original.

I heard Just Add Water wanted to give Metal Gear Solid the same treatment. I still support that, but I hope they stay true to the original and don't come up with issues similar to the ones noted in the above review.

[Ahmay]

@SolidStoner .. there r full game trails as plus members.. not every game.. and there r demos for all..

[Stsonic]

Is this for this week or it delayed for the next one?

[Christopher]

It'll go live when they update the store tonight.

[Kal-V3]

its up now.

[Yahdaree]

I just grabbed all 4 PS4 games myself, plus the HBO Go app!

[mochachino]

If delayed, knowing Sony it would be delayed indefinitely...ahem, DriveClub.

[getrektedmate]

Can anyone tell me if i can download them from the website?

[roloniche]

https://store.sonyentertain...

[getrektedmate]

@roloniche thanks mate :)

[Pogmathoin]

More great games for free(ish), lets all find something negative about this! Great to see Sony and MS duke this out on our behalf, maybe sometime MS will wait till after Sony announces its games and impress us all even more!

[Mr Pumblechook]

What's crazy is that Palitera makes a seemingly non-controversial statement "Four games on PS4!" And there are haters (know need for anyone to guess their correlating characteristics) who downmark that as a bad thing.

Haters will always hate, four games, including the brand new Olli Olli 2, is great news!

[andibandit]

It's problably the
"Well worth the wait!"
comment.

Some are haters, some already own those games, and some arent interested.

btw, stereotyping everyone into haters will problably give you disagrees as well.

[iSuperSaiyanGod]

Honestly nothing I'm excited for my ps plus is up in a couple days & I'm probaly not re upping lol but if I do it woul be solely for pvzgw play lol

[d0x360]

Oh wow I almost bought odd world on ps4 or pc (hadn't decided which) literally yesterday. Glad I didnt.

[uth11]

and some people are still unhappy. Next month, Sony could surprise release Last Guardian, give it away on PS+ along with Bloodborne and people would still complain, lmao!

[RedDevils]

Yes glad I hold off Abe lol

[JMaine518]

That's a good list. Will definitely be trying out Oddworld, OlliOlli 2 and Valiant Hearts!

[Relientk77]

Yes getting Oddworld, very excited! love the Oddworld series

[MasterCornholio]

Time to fart our way to Victory!!!!!!!!!

Oh and force our followers to smell the gas that we leak.

I can't wait to download that game.

[agame914]

What's up with the disagrees about oddwolrd? Oddwolrd is a great game. People can't help it but hate, it's in there blood

[Concertoine]

I like it, but i dont like the remake as much as the original. Its great for those that never experienced the PS1 original though. People who did, might see what i mean.

[RedDevils]

Concertoine, I'm a fan of it in Ps1 day so how is this different from it? Or did they ruined it?

[bleedsoe9mm]

pretty awesome month for ps4

[Scatpants]

Pretty good since I didn't get Oddworld and Valiant Hearts when they came out and I was going to buy Olliolli2 anyway.

[TheFutureIsBlue]

I called it on Olliolli 2 =D. I haven't played any games that we will be getting, so I'm excited for this month. I've yet to beat last months games(Apotheon and Transistor)since I've been occupied with The Evil Within. Nice time for PS+ IMO.

[Christopher]

Not bad. Own half of them already, but that's to be had I guess.

Too bad Sherlock Holmes isn't cross-buy.

[tjg59]

Nice olli olli 2

[spacewarrior1]

i think i'm gonna cry. it feels like i've been mugged paying full price on Oddworld.

[ajax17]

YES New n Tasty!!!

[shadowT]

Woww, Oddworld for PS4!

[BloodAddiction]

Wow so all this delay for these games? wtf im so dissapointed right now

[Christopher]

It could have been that one of these was the "runner up" and they were trying to get a very long time coming PS+ game into it... but it didn't happen again. That's the assumption by many, at least.

[rdgneoz3]

If you only have 1 system, you could be getting 4 PS4 games, 3 PS3 games, or 2 vita games. Having 2 of the 3 (PS3 and PS4), I'm happy with 6 free games (7 technically if you count PS3 & 4 versions of Counterspy, though getting PS4 only).

Oddworld and Valiant Hearts alone are worth it.

[BloodAddiction]

You know that saying? "Quality over quantity"

[SpadeX]

^Never heard of that, but I do know about quality AND quantity which is what I'm currently getting with PS Plus.

[Yahdaree]

Tareneka is you crazy

[BloodAddiction]

Im not crazy enough to misspell your name

[SpadeX]

Tronka pls.

[snarls2000]

sounds like Dishonered might have been planned then it got pulled

[MilkMan]

I own all of these except OiiOii2, nice selection of games though. Good one!

[Jayszen]

Good selection ...but many own one or two of the games anyway. Pity Sony does not allow alternative selections for those own one or two of the games but I guess that would be just to cost-prohibitive.

[xActionBasturdx]

Well I don't own any of em and will be downloadin them when I get off work

[kstap33]

I just don't buy smaller games anymore with the assumption they'll show up free later. Been burned once, and theres plenty on my backlog anyways.

[Viryu]

I bought Oddoworld on one of the recent PSN sales, it was kind of boring. Nothing like I've remembered from the PSX times, so I was forcing myself to even play and just dropped it around midway. I might check out Counterspy, but I'm most envious of PS3 getting a Holmes game, which isn't a cross-buy QQ

[rhap]

What's so great about this Olilililioiioli? Looks like those games you play for 5 minutes and never come back.

Probably won't play any of those. Waiting on the Lego sale to see if there's anything interesting.

[InKnight7s]

When i subscribed ps plus for the very beging i was so happy with it collection of ps1 and ps3 hit titles old or new but now ps plus is just about indie (;p) games that just fun but not real deal

[Christopher]

Only 2 of the games are Indie games.

[HollowZbankai]

oh thats right, you guys seem to label EveryDamGame under the ps plus sun as indie now. do you even know what an indie is? hell even some smaller games that should be considered indie just....arent. look more into these things instead of spouting off :)

[HollowZbankai]

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[OUROSMAG]

I've been wanting to buy Valiant Hearts, so this was a pleasant surprise!

[rayzorn]

i just bought it last week. i really liked it.

idk if its a game for everyone though. hope you enjoy

[wenaldy]

I just bought it like two days ago. No regret though, it's a good game 😗

[EazyC]

Wish they put up some 1 year old full-blown PS4 games instead of the indie stuff.

[q8kik]

VH isn't indie....

[Tapani]

If Valiant Hearts is on Plus then I will be (personally only, happy for others ofc!) disappointed in a way, cuz I just bought Child of Light and Valiant Hearts for PS4, and then already Child of Light is on PS+ (the Japanese one).

I don't like seeing the games I just bought few months later on PS+, it makes me feel... I dunno, kinda cheated.

I DO understand that it's merely a coincidence and that PS+ still has had a great value for me in terms of other games but... it just makes me question new indie game purchases.

Anyways, let's first see what the Japanese PS+ offerings are! Usually they are different than the US/EU ones.

Valiant Hearts is a great game, btw!

[JimmyDM90]

This'll teach me to buy things on Playstation digital sales haha

[Der_Kommandant]

Excellent selection of games

[Swiggins]

Valiant Hearts alone makes this month a good one, Oddworld is just icing on the cake.

I'm digging the selection this month, especially after last months was also really good (Transistor...my darling).

[Gore-Content]

Valiant Heart and New 'n Tasty? Damn! Not bad at all!

[RadioActiveTwinky]

Everyone complaining about buying games previously it going free. Chill....

Your upside is that you accumulated points on your Sony rewards program. If you haven't sign up for that sign up people. It's essentially giving you free money.

The Sony rewards program is similar to the Xbox reward program albeit a bit better on the return point rate then the Xbox one. On the Sony one 1 point = 1 dollar in a sense. I got a 10 dollar gift card with only 1000 points. Here is the link if you wish to sign up.

http://www.sonyrewards.com/...

Did I mention you also get points if you register any Sony movies as well. 👍

[Emrage]

So you paid $1000 and you get $10 damn that's a lot sorry but that is pretty bad. But this looks like an ad so it's probably fake but $1000 for a $10 gift card is just bad.

[RadioActiveTwinky]

I could be off on the exchange rate. Either way buying games through the reward program isn't the only way to build points. You can also build points through movie tickets and blurays/dvd's And a ton of other sh#t You buy that are Sony products. It's a really good reward program system if you only buy Sony products.

[HollowZbankai]

its better then getting nothing. i payed for my games and only expected just that... the games i paid for. but those points kept accumulating. then when i was $20 bucks short for something those points saved the day. theres no downside to getting these points. sony doesnt have to do this as microsoft doesnt(at least to my knowledge). its not fake tho. sony rewards is a thing lol not a bad one at that. but people always find a reason to complain for free stuff lmao. also it gives extra points for plus subs and extra for some games. i got an extra 100 points for a cheap ass game last month.

[jetlian]

its not better than live rewards. you can get 1 dollar just playing the free game every month for 10 hours. Not sure if both games count.

you can get 2 dollars if you have dlc for that game. they have different extra deals every month too.

spending 150 gets you to vip tier 1 with 1-2 percent off on sales. I'm on tier 1 if I spend 500 dollars i'll get 10 dollars in credit. spend 550 i'll reach tier 2 which gets me 2 or 4 percent off in sales.

[HollowZbankai]

oh so a 2% off sale at most. it seems plus sales do top that. but at least they have something, i guess.

[RadioActiveTwinky]

Lol at the disagrees. I don't know why I'm just saying you get a little something in return for purchasing something.

@Jetlian when Xbox rewards starts giving my points for other things outside of the xbla market place like Sony does then it could be better.

Currently Sony rewards gives you double points if your a psn+ member on all Sony related products. This includes psn store any Sony product you buy from the physical market i.e. BestBuy, Walmart etc... aswell as their online counterparts. Also Amazon granted it's a Sony product.

It also extends to movie theater. If you go to the movietheaters and you watch a Sony production movie those tickets can be registered to receive points as well.

so yes in my OPINION currently Sony rewards is better then Xbox rewards. I'm not saying Xbox rewards sucks I'm just saying Sony rewards allows me to gain points in more ways then just their online store.

[cheameup]

Nice olli olli 2. Was gonna buy it

[LightDiego]

Great games! I will get Oddworld, Papo & Yo, Sherlock Holmes, OlliOlli 2 and CounterSpy.
I already have Valiant Hearts and it's great.
Another great month for PS Plus.

[Lord_Kaname]

Why are people saying it is delayed?
It is the first Tuesday of each month, TODAY IS TUESDAY... were is the delay?

[Yahdaree]

I think people were just saying the announcement of which games they were offering was delayed.

[Lord_Kaname]

Still, it was a late announcement. There is no delay because they have until today, first Tuesday of the month, to announce it. Know what I mean?
If it was Wednesday 12a.m. Now that's a delay.

[Simco876]

When is Spotify going to be added?

[Christopher]

End of March firmware update.

[S2Killinit]

Wow FOUR games on PS4 alone. That is crazy. Valiant Hearts and OlliOlii should be good stuff.

[Ozmoses]

Told ya it would be announced today in my previous comment... no one believed me hahaha.

look at my comment history..

[captainexplosion]

I could see how some could be disappointed with the games simply because they are all niche games and will only appeal to a minority. I like the lineup though because I was going to buy OlliOlli 2 anyway. I also wanted to check out Counterspy on Vita.

[roguedragon1]

Guess I'm the only one disappointed with the ps+ selection again. Oh well

[The7Reaper]

Sweet not too bad this month

[waltyftm]

Really happy, Counterspy, Sherlock and Pappa make me and my family happy.

[LakerGamerEnthusiast]

F**KING GOLD.

I've had Valiant Hearts in my cart for the longest now. Was planning on buying that at some point but I kept slacking.

That'll be fun to finally play. Super stoked for all the others as well. Good offerings

[Eizhale]

Its great if you are into Indie titles but I'm not and was hoping for a proper AAA title. Oh well New n tasty is ok but I am not really into side scrollers and I played the original so not much here that interests me.

[ilikepizza]

2 hrs ago this site is buzzing it's been delayed because they will make a big announcement.Driveclub? Infamous?? Last Guardian??? Nah some vita games.

[MajorLazer]

Meh! Poor month. I'll be playing Thief on the PS3 and inFAMOUS: First Light on the PS4 (PS+ offerings last month)

[GMR_PR]

Man I tried playing inFamous: First Light, but i got bored so fast. Maybe I'll go back at it now that i finished Shadow of Mordor.

[jznrpg]

Nice month, I only have 1 of the games.

[microproze2000]

Thats what i call good news :D

[BABY-JEDI]

Awesome, Oddworld. The original was a great game. The remaster, even better. How am I going to find the time to play my PS+ games. Sony PS3+ = awesome

[Orionsangel]

I would have preferred one triple A title. Rather than 4 triple C titles.

[Manubiggs]

It will be at least another year or 2 before Triple A titles are offered regularly. It's still very early in the PS4'as lifecycle and lots of new adopters are still happy to pay full price for the handful of AAA titles available for the platform.

[Manubiggs]

Excited to try Olli Olli on my vita tonight - between my vita and ps4 that's four solid titles. Amazing value!

[prettychillguy]

There are definitely some awesome titles! I do think that Sony was holding off announcing the titles because the free version of DriveClub was in the works, but ended up falling through. That is just my prediction. Getting OlliOlli 2 for free on day one makes that totally worth it though! March tends to be a pretty good month in the gaming world, and this year is shaping up to be no exception.

[Flipfito]

Awesome list. I only wish sherlock was on PS4.

[lelo2play]

Average month. Out of those games, I have already played the ones I wanted, on the PC. PS+ is losing value for me.