Here’s the Six Free Playstation Plus May Games

Though Microsoft’s free offerings for May feel a bit slight, Sony is continuing strong with a filled slate of six games across all three Playstation platforms. Admittedly, none of the games are particularly new, but there’s a distinct sense of quality brewing throughout.

We’ve got the six Playstation Plus May free games listed below, but first here’s a video further denigrating the skill of literacy in today’s digital age, all drawn from the Playstation Blog.

PS4

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

There are many metroidvania-type titles out there – those 2D adventure titles with worlds that slowly grow larger and larger as the player unlocks new abilities – but there is only one that places the whole conceit within a culture of Mexican folklore and luchador wrestlers. It’s as insane as it sounds, mashing satisfying combat with stylized undead and a compelling art style.

Ether One

Joining the cavalcade of first-person exploration titles, Ether One sets the player on a peculiar mission: right the minds of the mentally ill. Yes, it pretty much devolves into a visual puzzler sort of deal, but the premise and narrative follow-through are interesting enough.

PS Vita

Murasaki Baby

This is the game that might happen if Jack Skellington suddenly developed an unhealthy obsession with his Nintendo console, blindly forging a new way to celebrate an old pastime. It’s one of the few games that takes ample advantage of the PS Vita’s touch screen, though reviews have pegged it as a “style over substance” kind of experience, intriguing in its visuals more than anything else.

PS4, PS3 and PS Vita

(each game below will be available for free on all three Sony consoles)

The Unfinished Swan

Sony’s indie renaissance helped cultivate The Unfinished Swan, a game with a premise too unique to contain within a simple acronym. If we wanted to do that, we could call it a FPTITRSG, or first person throw ink to reveal stuff game. The environment begins as a white canvas, unveiled as you lob balls of ink about and smack the geometry into view. It takes the exploration tenet so popular right now and creates an unorthodox atmosphere of mystery and discovery.

Race the Sun

The sun sets in the distance as you navigate your maniacally fast speeder through a deeply shadowed environment. The set-up is simple enough, and despite its flash-looking visuals the gameplay holds up for quick and sweaty sessions.

Hohokum

After you drench your brow with Race the Sun, take a leisurely dive into the colorful world of Hohokum, which amounts to a very relaxed, very lighthearted navigable screensaver. Sometimes games try to be games. Sometimes they don’t.

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