Gotham Knights leads the pack of new titles coming to the PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe/Premium game catalog this month. Starting October 17, all senior PS Plus members can hop on their Batcycles and ride through the streets of Gotham City, beating up all kinds of volatile criminals in the hopes of unmasking the enigmatic Court of Owls. Players can switch between Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing and the Red Hood throughout the story to investigate the death of Batman/Bruce Wayne and build their character through an equipment system. Gotham Knights was not well received at launch due to numerous performance issues on console and PC, in addition to its repetitive gameplay loop. The game will only be available on the PS5.
Award-winning literary RPG Disco Elysium is another big entry this month, putting you in the shoes of an alcoholic amnesiac detective going through an existential crisis as he navigates madness, politics and the horrors of addiction. The rich story acts as a love letter to tabletop gaming, leaving several loose threads to explore, interrogating characters, solving cases, accepting bribes, and using drugs to temporarily boost your stats. Disco Elysium arrives on PS4 and PS5, and because it’s the Final Cut version, the entire game is voice-acted. Follow it up with Eldest Souls, a pixelated top-down soul-style set in a desolate wasteland created by the Old Gods. Armed with a greatsword forged from the purest obsidian, a lone warrior is tasked with defeating them in punishing boss battles and returning the world to the way it was. Eldest Souls will be released on PS4 and PS5.
The Halloween month calls for horror games, and October’s PS Plus catalog brings some pure classics, starting with Alien Isolation, where the aspect of fear is heightened by the idea that you are stranded on a spaceship, light years away the earth. Set 15 years after the events of the Alien film (1979), it follows Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda as she journeys to the stars to discover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, only to be hunted by a deadly Xenomorph on the ground. to hunt. Alien Isolation will be free to play for PS Plus Extra and Premium members on October 17. Then there’s Dead Island Definitive Edition, in which an eclectic group of four are caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi; forced to crack open infected skulls, smash heads, and cut off appendages to survive.
In Outlast II, two investigative journalists, searching for clues about the seemingly impossible murder of a pregnant Jane Doe, are drawn to a dark and corrupt town in Arizona, where a chubby cult member Sullivan Knoth commits ruthless murders under the name of the Lord. Those looking for a more plot-heavy affair can check out The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, in which a group of Special Forces excavating for weapons of mass destruction eventually uncover a long-buried Sumerian temple – a nest for some deadly creatures. . It can also be played in co-op mode.
All this and more was revealed on the PlayStation Blog and will be available exclusively to PS Plus Extra and Deluxe members in October (PS Plus Deluxe will be called PS Plus Premium in select markets). Last month’s catalog included NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, Sed Meier’s Civilization VI, and This War of Mine to name a few.
Here’s the full list of free games available to PlayStation Plus Extra and Deluxe/Premium subscribers from October 17.
The blog post also mentions the PS Plus Classics catalog for October, available exclusively to PS Plus Deluxe/Premium members. This month brings Tekken 6, Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny, Ape Escape Academy and IQ Final.
PlayStation Plus Deluxe subscription in India starts from Rs. 849 per month, while the Extra plan starts at Rs. 749 per month.