LAST MONTH ON PS PLUS

Lucky number 13! As a result of our meddling with time and space, we squeeze an extra issue into every year just for you. All the same, the fact you’re holding this issue in your hands now means we went to print too early to know what was in store for January’s PS Plus lineup. So feast your eyes on the very best of what we enjoyed over the 12 months of 2018.

It was a year in which PS4 PS Plus subscribers saw Sony deliver a slew of hot Triple-A releases, for free. January saw Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. In March we had Bloodborne, renewing our resolve to finally finish off all of those Chalice Dungeons, while April had us dusting off Mad Max. This was just a teaser, as Sony and Activision conspired to offer Call Of Duty: Black Ops III as a bonus game during E3, and then in September the shock of Destiny 2 coming to the service – it only released ten months earlier – sparked interest in the new expansion. Was it a cynical marketing ploy? Perhaps, but we got

Destiny2, forfree. If indies were more your speed then

Laser League and Rime were musts. Both were games that we’d loved on release, so as part of PS Plus this pair was unmissable.

Bookending the year in delicious dread, transhumanist horror Soma surfaced in December. The recent addition of a mode that renders enemies non-lethal means that those prone to squealing at jump scares and chase sequences (me) can enjoy this one at their own pace. Those wanting something a bit more involved were far from forgotten, however. June offered strategy game

XCOM 2, and July had PS Vita’s Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma.

It’s been a great year on PS Plus, and the service will only get better. Here’s to a similarly packed 2019.