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By Pavlos Kroustis
The free games announced that the gaming services will provide for PS4, Xbox One and PC during the month of May. Every month they offer games for their paid subscribers, but also some completely free, generally for PC users.
(Note: The concept of “free” is more widely used, as the cost of each subscription already exists, while games are essentially at no additional cost.)
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We have some EXTRA free games these days. Please note that they are already available for free to everyone (Steam, PlayStation Store, Xbox Store) and you can keep them in your collection forever:
- Total War: SHOGUN 2 (PC) (available until 05/01)
- Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One) (available until 05/10)
- Polyball (PC) (available until 05/01)
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (PS4) (available until 05/05)
- Travel (PS4) (available until 05/05)
- Elsie’s Clandestine (PC)
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PlayStation Plus (PS4)
- Cities: horizons (PS4) (available from 05/05 to 06/02)
- Farming Simulator 19 (PS4) (available from 05/05 to 06/02)
PlayStation Plus is Sony’s PlayStation subscription service that allows users to play in multiplayer online, take advantage of special discounts, participate in early trial versions of games, and more. One of the services of the service is 2 free games every month for PlayStation 4. Once you add them to your collection, these games can be downloaded, played and deleted as many times as you want, as long as they are Your subscription to PS Plus is active. If you cancel your subscription, you will not lose the games, but you can use them when you reactivate the subscription.
Xbox games with gold (Xbox One / Xbox 360)
- V-Rally 4 – Xbox One (available from 05/01 to 05/31)
- Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr – Xbox One (available from 05/16 to 06/15)
- Sensible World of Soccer – Xbox One / Xbox 360 (available from 05/01 to 05/15)
- Overlord II – Xbox One (available from 05/16 to 06/31)
- Pen and Paper Knights Pack – Xbox One (available from 4/16 to 5/15)
Xbox Game Pass (Xbox One / PC)
Recently added:
- Gear Tactics (PC)
- Move (Xbox One and PC)
- Deliver us to the moon (Xbox One and PC)
- Machinarium (PC)
- Yakuza Kiwami (Xbox One and PC)
- Roboto Cat (Xbox One and PC)
- The long darkness (Xbox One and PC)
- Journey to the wild planet (Xbox One)
- Football Manager 2020 (PC)
- Stranger Things 3: The Game (PC)
- Alien: isolation (PC)
- Alvastia Chronicles (Xbox One and PC)
- MISTOVER (PC)
- NieR: Automata – Become as Gods Edition (Xbox One)
Available soon:
- Hyperdot (Xbox One and PC) (available from 4/30)
- Levelhead (Xbox One and PC) (available from 4/30)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Xbox One) (available from 05/07)
- Minecraft dungeons (Xbox One and PC) (available from 05/26)
They leave the service:
- Wolfenstein: The New Order (Xbox One)
- Fallout 4 (Xbox One)
- Braid (Xbox One)
- Metal Slug 3 (Xbox One)
- Bomber Crew (Xbox One and PC)
- Full Metal Furies (Xbox One and PC)
- The Banner Saga 2 (Xbox One and PC)
- Smoke and sacrifice (Xbox One and PC)
- Silence – The Whispered Wold 2 (Xbox One and PC)
- Ruiner (Xbox One and PC)
- Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One) (May 7)
Xbox and PC users can opt for another subscription, Xbox Game Pass, which also adds games every month, but also offers special discounts on games and DLC, in case you want to buy them to have them even if they expire. Your Xbox Game Pass subscription has a list of over 100 games. While subscribing, you can access, download, play, delete, and download these games as many times as you like, for the duration of your subscription. Please note that Xbox Game Pass subscriptions are 2 different: for Xbox One users there is Xbox Game Pass for the console and for PC users there is Xbox Game Pass for PC. The two subscriptions are separate, with some differences in the games offered, but both are included in Xbox Ultimate, along with Xbox Live Gold.
Games available with Xbox Game Pass are available until your withdrawal from the program is announced. This can happen after a few months, or in many cases and … not at all!
Twitch Prime
- Yono and the Heavenly Elephants (available from 04/23)
- Old musical school (available from 04/24)
- Earthlock (available from 1/4)
- Etherborn (available from 1/4)
- Kathy Rain (available from 1/4)
- Lightmatter (available from 1/4)
- Turok remastered (available from 1/4)
Twitch Prime is a game subscription, similar to Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus, but only for PC users. The subscription is combined with many advantages, since when you buy Twitch Prime, you have access to Amazon Prime, which offers you many trump cards for purchases on Amazon, but also access to the Prime Video TV subscription service, among others.
Epic Games Shop
- Amnesia: the dark descent (available from 4/30 to 5/7)
- Crashlands (available from 4/30 to 5/7)
- For the king (available from 04/23 to 04/30)
Epic Games Store, the competitor to Steam, has made its presence felt at the same time. give everyone free games, without any conditions, apart from the account required in the service, which, however, does not have any hidden charges.