A year ago Sony gave way to the initiative Play at Home to support the players e help them better cope with the hardships of the CoVid-19 pandemic - specifically by staying at home. One month ago Sony had announced the program Play at Home: 2021, which he kicked off with Ratchet & Clank to PS4 (Insomniac Games, 2016), which has been made available for free for download starting from the beginning of March (and will remain available until April 1st).
Now, through a post on the PlayStation Blog, Sony announced a list of 10 titles which will be available for free starting March 26, 2021. The games will remain available until April 23 2021 and please note that a subscription to the PS Plus service is not required to access it. Now let's see what games it is, with an overview of them.
Standard Games
Abzû
From the creators of Journey, Flower e The Pathless, Abzu è a fascinating underwater adventure which evokes the dream of scuba diving. The player has the opportunity to immerse themselves in a throbbing marine world, full of mysteries and flooded with color and life.
Enter the Gungeon
Enter the Gungeon is a game of underground exploration Twin-Stick Shooter type gameplay and full of firefights. The game follows the events of a band of outcasts, committed to seeking self-acquittal through shootings, looting, dodging and overturning tables. All to achieve the legendary supreme treasure of Gungeon: the weapon capable of kill the past.
Rez Infinite
Rez è an exciting journey into virtual reality made up of sensory experiences and action. Rez Infinite is the latest and best version in existence. The game it has been completely remastered and improved by members of the original development team, exclusive to PS4 and (optionally) for PlayStation VR.
Subnautica
Subnautica it's a builder game of submarine exploration. After the crash landing on an alien aquatic world, the protagonist can follow only one direction: the one that goes down. The oceans of Subnautica they range from sunny shallow coral reefs to treacherous pits in the depths of the sea, expanses of lava and bioluminescent underwater rivers. Water teems with life: some of it is useful, most of it is hostile.
The Witness
The Witness is a single player title set in a freely explorable world, with dozens of scenarios e over 500 puzzles. This game puts the player's intelligence first and respects the value of his time. There are no fillers. Each puzzle contributes to the experience by bringing a new idea. Basically, it's a game of ideas.
Virtual Reality Games
Astro Bot Rescue Mission
Thanks to PlayStation VR, the player has the opportunity to experiment a platformer like he has never seen it before, in an exciting rescue operation. The protagonist, Astro, embarks on an epic adventure with the aim of bring his crew to safety: thanks to the viewer PS VR, you will always be at the center of the action. By taking each jump carefully and examining each crevice it will be possible to search and discover a lot of secrets in this adventurous mission.
Moss
Moss it's a adventure puzzle game for single player, as well as one new IP created by Polyarc for the VR platform. In Moss, the player gets acquainted with Quill, a young mouse with big dreams that go beyond the boundaries of her colony. While exploring the woods he finds a mysterious glass relic and awakens an ancient magical power.
Thumper
Thumper it is rhythmic violence: rhythmic action, crazy speed and brutal physicality. The player impersonates a space insect. Will face the infernal void and will challenge a giant, delusional head from the future. Each violent impact is accompanied by a pounding original soundtrack. To reach synaesthetic nirvana it will be necessary to go through rhythmic hell.
Paper Beast
Paper Beast comes from the creative mind of Eric Chahi (Another World, From Dust). The game carries the player in a dreamlike odyssey in virtual reality, discovering a wild ecosystem born from lost data on the Internet. The protagonist will be the first to explore a world populated by exotic and surprising creatures and will shape the environment around him to overcome obstacles and puzzles.
The pearl of Play at Home 2021: Horizon Zero Dawn
That's not all. Starting from April 20, 2021 and until May 15, 2021 will also be available for free Horizon Zero Dawn, the acclaimed Open World di Guerrilla Games in which Aloy, a huntress who moves in a post-apocalyptic world populated by tribes and gigantic machines, goes in search of truth and fragments of the past.
Horizon Zero Dawn he won the BAFTA award for best new IP in 2018 (in addition to having entered in nomination for another 7 awards in the same context) and received five 2017 TGA nominations. He also won the award for best screenplay in a video game at the "Writers Guild of America" in 2018. The game will be made available complete with the DLC The Frozen Wilds.
All proposed games will be available in both version PS4 and PS5.
