One of last year’s worst games, and one of the best games of the last five years are your PlayStation Plus games for January

Sony is kicking off the new year with something of a bang, having just revealed the line-up of games PlayStation Plus members will be getting this month.

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Welcome to January, 2025, folks. As the new year begins, so too do the monthly updates from Sony about the line-up of games coming to PlayStation Plus ’ various tiers. We’ve got the first one of those in 2025, with three core games that are (mostly) quite good.

All games will be available starting Tuesday, January 7 for Premium, Extra, and Essential. You have until January 6 to claim December’s lot.

Things could only get better from there, and boy do they. The excellent, narratively brilliant adventure The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is yours to play on PS4 and/or PS5. Ultra Deluxe is part sequel, part remake, part exercise in creative frustration. It was one of 2022’s best games, and is certainly the best one in this line-up.

Finally, for something a little more casual and a lot less intellectually stimulating, we have the PS4 version of Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered (also playable on PS5) to chill out with after surviving the emotional roller coaster the two other games provide. This is a remaster of the 2010 Criterion Games Hot Pursuit, not the 1998 classic. It’s a Criterion racing game, so you can count on satisfying arcady car handling, an immense sense of speed, varied activities to get stuck in, and a killer soundtrack.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered

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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

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