Sony recently made the first set of PlayStation Plus games available in 2025 to all subscribers, regardless of which service tier they’re signed up for. This month includes Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered, and The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. I can’t say this is the most exciting set of games, but at least The Stanley Parable is a classic, albeit an old one – the game was first released as a mod for Half-Life 2 in 2011.
The game then got a proper full release in 2013, and the Ultra Deluxe edition was released for modern consoles in 2022.
Original creators Davey Wreden and William Pugh put together the Ultra Deluxe Edition with an expanded script and a number of other new changes, which the developers weren’t exactly revealing: “Everything you remember has been recreated, yet it’s somehow different.
We’ve been here before, haven’t we?” Broadly speaking, though, the game expands on the original with more choices, more dialogue, and more options for the player to navigate. If you haven’t given the game a try, you now have no excuse not to check it out.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is another older game – originally released in 2010, but updated for the PS4 in 2020.
This is the version available here, with full career modes for either racers or cops, depending on which side of the law you want to be on. This version also includes multiplayer modes and all of the DLC released for the original game.
Finally, the newest game of the batch is Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a live service game that went through multiple delays, received largely negative reviews and reportedly lost Warner Bros. around $200 million.
To top it all off, the developers announced that the current season of content will be its last, though there are no plans to shut the game down just yet.
Considering that it just came out last February, that’s a pretty short amount of time. I’m not sure I’d want to board a sinking ship at this point, but at least you can try it out without spending $70.
All of these games will be available to PS Plus subscribers starting January 7, and you have until then to add December’s games to your library.