Summary
- PS Plus offers Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered & The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe for January 2025.
- PS Plus' January 2025 games will be available for download from January 7 to February 3, 2025, providing ample time for subscribers to enjoy the offerings.
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League introduces players to the reimagined Arkham-Verse with rough patches but solid core gameplay.
PS Plus is back again with another lineup of free games for subscribers of all tiers to take advantage of, including three titles from the past few years in its lineup. In its efforts to greet 2025 with a bang, PS Plus is offering subscribers Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, all of which will be made available within the next few days.
While the free PS Plus titles for January 2025 have been announced, subscribers will still need to wait until January 7 before the games are available for download. From then on, January 2025's PS Plus games will remain accessible to subscribers until February 3, 2025, so they should have plenty of time to add each game to their library.
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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The headliner for January 2025's PS Plus offerings is none other than Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Rocksteady's latest addition to its own Arkhamverse. As a live-service game, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League had a really rough time appealing to the better interests of gamers ahead of its release, and even after its launch, it has failed to maintain a major core audience. Still, perhaps the fact that it will now be available through PS Plus will give players a reason to check it out, even if it's only for a little while. At its core, Kill the Justice League is a fun, action-packed game, despite being let down by its live-service model and succumbing to repetitive gameplay and lackluster level design.
Set five years after Baman: Arkham Knight, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League follows the titular Suicide Squad — consisting of Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark — who have been brought together by Amanda Waller in order to stop Brainiac's invasion of Metropolis. Brainiac has brainwashed members of the Justice League, including Superman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and Batman, effectively transforming them from heroes to villains, and the Suicide Squad has been tasked with taking them down. During gameplay, players can switch between each of the four characters in both solo and co-op modes.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 59 /100 Critics Rec: 20%
- Released
- February 2, 2024
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Rocksteady Studios
- Publisher(s)
- Warner Bros. Games
WHERE TO PLAY
Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Suicide Squad
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Genre(s)
- Action, Adventure, Open-World
- How Long To Beat
- 10 Hours
- OpenCritic Rating
- Weak
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered
As its name suggests, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is an enhanced version of the original Need for Speed Hot Pursuit released in 2010. Developed by Criterion Games and Stellar Entertainment, Hot Pursuit Remastered features updated visuals, including higher-resolution models, improved textures, and more accurate reflections, all designed to deliver a more immersive racing experience. Hot Pursuit Remastered also includes all the main DLC from the original game, which together offer six additional hours of gameplay and over 30 new challenges. As a true remaster, Hot Pursuit Remastered maintains the core gameplay of high-speed police chases and car races through Seacrest County, so veteran fans and newcomers alike should find plenty to enjoy here.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered also includes cross-platform support via its Autolog system, so players can enjoy the game with their friends on different platforms.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 74 /100 Critics Rec: 63%
- Released
- November 6, 2020
- ESRB
- E10+ For Everyone 10+ // Mild Lyrics, Mild Violence
- Developer(s)
- Criterion Games
- Publisher(s)
- EA
- Engine
- Chameleon
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Need for Speed
WHERE TO PLAY
Feel the thrill of the chase and the rush of escape in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered. Unleash a savage sense of speed both as an outlaw and a cop in the world's hottest high-performance cars. Outsmart the heat or take down lawbreakers with the tactical weaponry at your disposal in a heart-pumping, socially competitive racing experience. Updated with enhanced visuals, cross-platform multiplayer — including the asynchronous competition powered by Autolog — plus all additional main DLC, this is the ultimate edition of Criterion Games’ critically acclaimed Need for Speed debut.
Bolt down the winding Seacrest County roads headfirst in racing that is socially competitive at its core. The groundbreaking Autolog connects you and your friends in head-to-head pursuits and races and instinctively delivers challenges based on your friends’ activities. This highly dynamic system is fueled by friendly competition and is now supported with cross-platform sync and new multiplayer gameplay so you can race each other no matter what platform you’re on.
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Genre(s)
- Racing
- How Long To Beat
- 17 Hours
- OpenCritic Rating
- Fair
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Similarly to Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and its original version, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an enhanced and expanded version of the original Stanley Parable that was released in 2013. Developed by Crows Crows Crows and Galactic Cafe, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe still very much retains the original game's emphasis on choice and free will while introducing new content. In The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, players control Stanley, navigating an office environment with the help of the game's narrator. This particular edition also comes with additional endings and new areas, effectively doubling the content of the original game.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 90 /100 Critics Rec: 98%
- Released
- April 27, 2022
- ESRB
- T For Teen // Drug Reference, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes, Mild Violence
- Developer(s)
- Crows Crows Crows
- Publisher(s)
- Crows Crows Crows, Galactic Cafe
WHERE TO PLAY
You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will have your choices taken from you. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
What's New?
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of the critically acclaimed, award winning indie game The Stanley Parable from 2013.
Everything that was in the original Stanley Parable is here, preserved just like it was back in 2013. But The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe also dramatically expands the world of the original game with new content, new choices, and new secrets to uncover. The labyrinth has just gotten bigger.
In addition, the game has been visually upgraded to reflect modern technology while faithfully preserving the tone of the original game. Accessibility features have also been added to the game, including localization of in-world text, colorblind options, and content warnings.
And just as before, the impeccable voicework of Kevan Brighting will accompany you every step of the way.
In The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, everything you remember has been recreated, yet it's different somehow. We've been here before, haven't we? Is Stanley still the same as he was back then? Or is it you who has changed?
- Engine
- Unity
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Verified
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Genre(s)
- First-Person, Simulation, Mystery
- How Long To Beat
- 3 Hours
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty