Whether you're a fan of shooters, puzzlers, or arcade classics, you're bound to find something you like in the collection below. It would be an absolute sin to leave Fortnite: Battle Royale off our list. This stream-friendly darling has taken the world by storm, capturing the hearts and minds of gamers everywhere — and probably aggravating some teachers, to boot.
And if you've recently ripped the shrink wrap off of a new PlayStation 4, it won't cost you a cent to download. What can you look forward to in Fortnite: BR? Some hectic third-person shooting fun with a last-man-standing twist. It's essentially a more comical take on the formula that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds made famous with the addition of some crafting and fort-building mechanics.
While the game is totally playable for free, we do feel obligated to mention the game's microtransactions, which include emotes, player skins, and other cosmetic items. These can add up, so if you're the type who needs to own every single dance move, it's something to keep in mind.
If you've ever been intrigued by games like League of Legends or Heroes of the Storm , you'll be happy to learn that a few console MOBAs multiplayer online battle arenas exist, too. One such title is Smite , a third-person take on the genre that puts all the Gods of mythology under your control. Whether you're dropping the hammer with Thor or dispensing literal shock and awe with Zeus and his lightning bolts, Smite promises a powerfully good time.
And it's totally free. MOBAs offer a unique blend of action and strategy, and Smite , along with its above-mentioned brethren, are highly competitive eSports titles. If that's your scene, you'll quickly find a home with this title, which lets you progress and tweak your character builds to best fit your play style.
If you want to skip all the tweaking, though, Smite does offer an auto-build option to streamline the process. And for the sake of thoroughness — there are microtransactions in this title, as well.
However, they're limited to skins and Gods, the latter of which can still be earned in-game for free. If you're a Destiny player who feels the game has left some stones unturned, you might discover that Warframe scratches many of the same itches while offering a lot more customization.
Warframe , like Destiny , is a shared-world shooter with both co-op and player-versus-player aspects. Both games take place in a sci-fi setting, and both put the chase for loot at the forefront of the experience. Warframe, however, costs zero dollars to download on your PlayStation 4. Warframe also puts Destiny 's main draw — getting cool, unique stuff for your character — on steroids. In Warframe , your hub is not a Tower shared with other players.
It's your own personal spaceship, and inside it, you can craft new weapons and armor. Throw in monthly content updates and procedurally generated missions and raids, and Warframe could at the least be a nice filler game for when you're out of things to do in Destiny — but you may find that it becomes your new go-to shared-world shooter.
There are some microtransactions available inside Warframe that can help speed up the grind for cosmetics. But everything can eventually be obtained in-game at no cost. Here's a fun fact : in the original Pac-Man , a glitch on Level effectively prevented players from continuing the game. Players called it the "Kill Screen," and its random jumble of letters and numbers kept many from seeing just how far they could get in the game. It was an accidental finale to that original title, but in Pac-Man , the Level glitch is an intentionally included enemy you must avoid while gobbling up dots and avoiding ghosts.
And that's just one of the twists in this Pac-Man adventure. That, in addition to the immeasurably innovative Ping system, makes Apex Legends worth the added megabytes to your PS4 hard drive, regardless of whether you've even made a passing glance at Fortnite by this point.
You might have missed out on Life is Strange and its prequel Life is Strange: Before the Storm till now, claiming "insignificant funds" as an excuse to miss out on Dontnod's excellent interactive adventures, but with The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit , there's nowhere left to hide. A totally free, bite-size chunk of Life is Strange gameplay, as well as a precursor to the first game's official sequel, this two hour trip inside the mind of endearing seven year old Chris is a delight from beginning to end.
It's not the longest game in the world, but then again, you won't have to pay a thing, and not a single minute spent with the imaginative youngster is wasted when he's such an empathetic and loveable presence. It's the perfect gateway drug to the wonderful world of Arcadia Bay. Part third-person action game, part competitive shooter, part RPG, part co-operative PvP team game, Smite takes the loose spirit of the MOBA and turns the genre in an entirely more immediate direction. Not that this is just about instinctive twitch play.
The free-to-play model is pretty damn pleasant, too. You get five permanent gods for free when you start, and five more will cycle into the roster on a weekly basis. Download Smite now on PSN. What's more, IO Interactive often makes even more Hitman missions free for a limited time during certain times of the year, so be patient, and you could end up playing the whole game without paying anything at all.
Catch up with what you've missed for nothing at all. Download Hitman now on PSN. Youngling battle royale fans with a case of Fortnite fatigue need not look any further than Hi-Rez's latest free-to-play title Realm Royale. The multiplayer game hit PC in the Summer of last year, and quickly racked up an impressive audience, before moving to console with its open beta.
But what makes this battle royale stand out from the rest? Chickens, for one thing. Whenever you're downed, your character has a chance to survive as a white flag waving fowl before coming back into the fold after a ten second timer. Not only that, but Realm Royale features class-based gameplay, personal mounts, a unique arsenal of armour and weapons, and an eye-pleasing art style that makes that familiar base jump at the start of each map all the more exciting.
The open beta will eventually form into a full release, and you can help Hi-Rez iron out the technical bumps in the meantime by putting Realm Royale through its paces. A hectic, borderline-sadistic hack-and-slash, you should only play Let it Die if you have a penchant for getting your ass handed to you. The most memorable by far is the skateboarding Uncle Death.
Who wears spiral sunglasses and biker boots. So we promise all those deaths mean something. Imagine having the whole pantheon of DC comics at your fingertips, where superheroes saunter through city streets without fear of prejudice and adventure lies around every corner.
That's DC Universe Online in a nutshell; a battle-tested MMO in which players create their own superhero and battle it out in a sprawling multiplayer landscape inspired by the comic books that brought us Bats, Supes, and all the rest.
The game's over seven years old, so its visual oomph isn't as impressive at it once was, but developer Daybreak Game Company has been so committed to enriching the game with new updates and content since launch that it's hard not to be impressed by the sheer breadth of gameplay available for free.
A must play for DC fans, and definitely something to try out for those on a budget, DC Universe Online is a super sized corker of a free product. To mitigate the notable lack of crowd-pleasers, Sony pulled out all the stops for the remaining 10 months of By the end of the year, the Vita gained support for the well-regarded PlayStation Plus subscription service.
You can do this with a local co-op partner or by yourself as you prefer, but either way the mechanics of moving and battling in unison matches perfectly with the tone of the game, told through interactive conversations.
Plus the electronica soundtrack is a treat to listen to throughout. Cloudpunk is the name of the company you work for, a shady courier operation. As Rania, a driver responsible for making these deliveries, you'll travel the city on your assignments, learning more about the activities of its diverse inhabitants over the course of one dramatic night.
The city of Nivalis has a thick, oppressive atmosphere, and you'll explore its skyscrapers from top to bottom as you drive and walk between destinations. In suitably cyberpunk style, there are few happy moments to be found across the different stories, but many different secrets for you to uncover. A self-described "pop album video game", this is a high-speed puzzle that takes through a neon world on the back of a motorcycle, skateboard and other vehicles, and with an emotive soundtrack to boot.
You're playing a young woman with a broken heart, who has found herself on an unending road in the sky; part of a world that takes after the cards of a tarot deck.
Each level, which is individually scored, sees you collecting items, dodging obstacles and battling foes as you ride towards the end of the level. There are boss battles too that mix in other mechanics to break up the action with new challenges. Once the story is through, you may want to go back through and improve your scores so you can get a perfect set of gold medals.
Even if you never played the original, you'll still find this roguelike platforming game easy to get into. Playing as one of several explorers, you'll be tasked with delving into the depths of the Moon. Each playthrough is made up of randomly-generated levels, which means you'll never see the same content in the same way twice. And even if you win which is quite unlikely on any particular run , there are still more secrets for you to find on subsequent playthroughs.
If you don't want to adventure alone, you can invite up to three other players in local co-op or one other player online, either fighting through the caverns together, or against each other in Arena mode. The second game in the open-world hacking series takes you to San Francisco, where, as new protagonist Marcus Holloway, you join Deadsec to take on the ctOS system that monitors the city.
As well as conventional weaponry, you also have the ability to hack nearby devices, such as your enemies' smartphones, drones or even parts of city infrastructure, to help you fight back.
And if fighting against the city isn't enough, you can also join up in co-op to get or give a helping hand, or invade another user's game and engage in a tense game of cat and mouse, trying to figure out their disguise and take them out first. Taking inspiration from viral animal memes, this game puts pets and wild beasts together in an arena for a Street Fighter-style showdown that manages to be both complex but very dumb.
To cut through to the heart of the game, it's a 2D fighter. That means you'll be moving and jumping backwards and forwards in a straight line, deciding when best to block and attack in order to win the best of three rounds. You'll need to be seriously online to understand where the ideas for the characters came from, but anyone can appreciate the absurd spectacle of a jacked Shiba Inu punching a magical squirrel.
There's also a pretty robust combo system beneath the silly visuals, meaning that if you spend some time getting to grips with the game, then you can become the apex predator when you challenge your friends, try the game's arcade mode or fight against others online. The newest game to take social media by storm, this battle royale-style title doesn't involve fighting directly, but rather platforming by way of running, jumping, diving and grabbing.
Each round takes you through your way to the end of one of several tricky obstacle courses. Make it to the end fast enough, or complete one of the other unique goals tied to different maps, and you'll get to progress to the next round, until a victor is decided in a final free-for-all.
With up to 60 players a match each playing as a cute bean-shaped character, there's a lot of visual appeal, particularly when you begin to unlock cosmetics to customize your avatar's look and emotes.
Sometimes you'll be playing against all of the other players, but other times you will be split into teams for a more cooperative experience. It's a dark-sound theme, but it's presented with charming hand-drawn animation designed to look like s cartoons.
In motion, there's no other game that looks like this. You'll be seeing frequent restarts as you tackle each boss, as you're only a fragile cup and they will strike you down with some brutal attacks.
But the good thing is you won't mind, since the game looks great, and sounds awesome thanks to its jazzy soundtrack, and there's customization options if you feel you need to change up your tactics. If you have patience to learn the game's systems and the enemies' patterns, you'll be hooked on Cuphead. Puzzle games often require you to look closely at your environment to figure out what to do next, but in Superliminal it's even more important.
Your perspective on the scene matters, because moving things around changes their size, allowing paths to be uncovered and built out of the everyday items you find around you in-game. This is a game that's definitely going to stretch your mental muscles in a way they have not been tested before. While the world you find yourself in is quiet and peaceful apart from the comically small and large objects you've left behind , there's a strange story going on in the background, in which you're the subject of a strange kind of therapy represented by the puzzles.
The voiceover narrator may remind you of another unusual puzzle solving game involving portals, but Superliminal is its own unique beast that deserves your attention. Helping your friends move out of their house is a chore in real life, but it's a lot more fun in this game.
With up to four people, you'll extract furniture from homes and other buildings full of junk outside and into your truck.
Luckily for you, you can carry the possessions out in more ways than just the door, and your clients don't seem to mind about breakages, but the environment around their homes and business will be full of more hazards than you may have expected.
You're able to collect a variety of character customization pieces to swap between as you complete removals in your quest to become the best company in town. There are usually a couple of different ways to complete a level depending on if you want to blast through the game or you want to master the game's strange physics system and controls.
And if you want an even tougher challenge, then the Arcade Mode lets you try moving a sofa through some more difficult environments. Whichever one you choose, you'll find a scenario that's the perfect level of difficulty for you and your friends. Just like the film trilogy that this game is based on, John Wick Hex is about strategizing your way through an overwhelming number of armed enemies. This isn't a shooter, it's more of a strategy title that is somewhere between real-time and turn based, the game pausing each time you reach an enemy so you can figure out your approach to the situation.
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