PS Plus free games: New games revealed for October 2024

October brings the horror (as it should), with the Dead Space remake leading the line-up.

Keep reading for everything coming to every tier of PS Plus throughout October, including some of our best picks for what to check out.

PS Plus free games for October 2024 confirmed

PS Plus Essential members will get the following free games from Tuesday 1st October onwards:

• Dead Space
• WWE 2K24
• Doki Doki Literature Club

Once again, it's an eclectic mix of titles, but the Dead Space Remake is a great way to get prepped for Halloween with one of the spookiest games released in recent years.

Doki Doki and WWE 2K24 are also great offerings, once again demonstrating that this service is trying to serve all types of players.

What's leaving PS Plus this month?

The Essential games for September, listed below, stopped being available on Monday 30th September.

• Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
• MLB The Show 24
• Little Nightmares II

What do you get with the other PS Plus tiers?

There are even more games available with the higher tiers of PlayStation Plus (Extra and Premium).

Sony has revealed the following games will be added to the PS Plus Extra and Premium Game Catalogues from 15th October:

• Dead Island 2 (PS5, PS4)
• Two Point Campus (PS5, PS4)
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me (PS5, PS4)
• Gris (PS5, PS4)
• Return to Monkey Island (PS5)
• Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed (PS5, PS4)
• Firefighting Simulator The Squad (PS5, PS4)
• Overpass 2 (PS5)
• Tour de France 2023 (PS5, PS4)
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands (PS4)

The following will be added for Premium members on 15th October:

• The Last Clockwinder (PS VR2)
• Dino Crisis (PS5, PS4)
• Siren (PS5, PS4)
• R-Type Dimensions EX (PS4)

Since they were added on 17th September, Extra and Premium members are now able to play these games in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue:

• Ben 10 (PS5, PS4)
• Chernobylite (PS5, PS4)
• Far Cry 5 (PS5, PS4)
• Night in the Woods (PS5, PS4)
• Road 96 (PS5, PS4)
• Space Engineers (PS5, PS4)
• The Plucky Squire (PS5)
• Under The Waves (PS5, PS4)
• Wild Card Football (PS5, PS4)

On top of that, Premium members can also now play:

• Mister Mosquito (PS5, PS4)
• Pistol Whip (PSVR 2)
• Secret Agent Clank (PS5, PS4)
• Sky Gunner (PS5, PS4)
• The Last of Us: Part 1 (PS5)

What to play on PS Plus - our recommendations

If you're looking for some other great games to play in the PS Plus Game Catalogue, we'd recommend these ones for sure:

• Control: Ultimate Edition
• Death Stranding Director's Cut (PS5)
• Days Gone (PS4)
• Demon's Souls (PS5)
• DOOM Eternal (PS4, PS5)
• Horizon Forbidden West (PS4, PS5)

As well as all the games included in the other tiers, PS Plus Premium lets you download and play older titles from PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP to harken back to a simpler time and relive your younger years.

PS3 games are only available via cloud streaming and this is region-dependent, but the UK is included in this list so we don't miss out.

See below for a selection of classics you can revisit:

• Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (PS1)
• Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1)
  
• Resident Evil Director's Cut (PS1)
• The Jak and Dexter series (PS2)
• Dark Cloud (PS2)
• The God of War Collection and God of War Ascension (PS3)
• inFAMOUS and inFAMOUS 2 (PS3)
• Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice (PSP)
• Killzone: Liberation (PSP)

As a PS Plus Premium subscriber, you also have access to time-limited trials, which lets you try before you buy and download a full game and play it for a set amount of time. The length of the trial varies depending on the game.

What’s also great here is that the progress you make on these trials will carry over if you end up buying the full game. We’ve got a selection of just a few below.

• A Plague Tale: Requiem – Two hours
• Baldur's Gate 3 – Two hours
• Cyberpunk 2077 – Five hours
• God of War Ragnarok – Three hours
• The Last of Us: Part I – Two hours
• Hogwarts Legacy – 45 minutes
  
• Sonic Frontiers – One hour
• Spider-Man 2 - Two hours

As you can see, longer RPGs and story titles get longer trials, so you can get a good sense of what you’re getting into before you fish out your wallet. Make sure to check out our more comprehensive list of all PS Plus games so you don't miss out on any games you've been meaning to play.

And that's your lot! We'll update this page as and when new PS Plus games are announced. For more info, check out our guide to the latest PS Plus offers to walk away with some cheap deals on the subscription.

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