45+ PS5, PS4 Games to Buy in PS Store's Refreshed January Sale

I just picked up Armored Core VI as a direct result of this article. I love mech games, though I tend to gravitate to the Battletech ones (i.e. MechWarrior 5: Clans), and I loved the Earthsiege and Starsiege games as a kid, but the occasional Japanese-flavored mech game scratches another itch entirely. I'm looking forward to it.

I know it means going to an external source, but I’d appreciate it if you had a separate section for (or only included) games which are put to their lowest price ever. Sales which keep putting games down to the same old price are not sales, just normal prices with periods of being massively conned when they temporarily go up again…

Crazy to see AC Shadows “discount” for the ultimate edition to be 94.99 because it will probably be under 30 this time next year. To each their own but Jesus I can’t rationalize spending that much on an ubi game.

@get2sammyb yes at that price its worth a go. It's not dire, it has its moments. I enjoyed some of the boss fights.

It's one of those games where you can tell it was originally designed to be a live service and then switched to single player during development type of game.

Blimey, a sale on a FromSoftware game! I’m still a bit scared to play Elder Ring, I’ve managed to game my whole life and remain terrible at games like that. One day though, when I’ve got the expendable money to risk it.

What does early access matter? LOL, it's digital sales, infinite supply, for games that will be on sale over and over again for that matter. I mean, buy it now or buy it in January or even later next year when they're on sale again.

@4fold your not alone and the fact they know we know is worrying.

Forza at 36? Come on, Microsoft. It's too old for that

I need to save on ps+ . I refuse to pay full price.

@DogPark Because some people want to play these things before/during Christmas at the discounted price?

I think it's BS that access is hated behind the Plus sub, but that doesn't mean that people won't take advantage of the offers right now.

I was thinking of picking up Forza Horizon 5, and you reminded me how utterly frustrating the AI is.

@deezcronuts Oddly, Forza was cheaper ($30) back in September: https://psprices.com/region-us/game/8426788/forza-horizon-5-standard-edition
So, I was expecting it to be that low for the holiday sales, too.

The ps5 version of DQ 3 does not have 3rd person battles. I think these are from a modded pc version screenshots...
Edit: So, It kind of has 3rd person only when selecting battle commands, then switching to first person. My bad

@OptimusPrime1

Correct! I pointed this out in the other article (I guess the comments didn't get merged), but yeah, Standard Edition for Forza was $30 in September. Black Friday and now this sale, it has not hit that price again.

I shoulda jumped on it. That said, I kinda wanted the Premium, which is following a similar pattern ($49.99 in Sept, $59.99 on sale since), so the temptation is still there to wait out a better deal lol

@get2sammyb I loved it. Runs 30fps but its done real well.

Why are "sales" prices still being talked about as a bargain. Steam is as bad, they aren't sales, they've all been at this price before. Don't believe the brainwash. I use cdkeys as it beats steam, but I haven't bought a PS5 game because of Extra in yonks.

No, thanks. I’ll stick to buying games and going through my backlog. All these deals are to try to entice gamers to see the “value” in PS+.

The only thing I see is online mp that is arbitrarily blocked behind a paywall and a service that is anything BUT essential.

@guacguacboo
I would not spend that money on ANY game. The only games I paid more than $40 is Elden Ring and few rare DS/3DS games that would grow value.

I played most of Sony, Xbox and Nintendo titles, plus lots of 3rd party titles, and always wait for sales or preowned copies.
There are better ways of spending money

I got armoured core for 15€ physical and a fair amount of these titles for the same price or cheaper on disc. Digital is seldomly a good deal unless it's under 10€.

@Slippship absolutely agree

@The_Wailing_Doom I got it on PC they absolutely broke the game with an update to the anti cheat as it causes FPS drops and they never fixed it

@Slippship Steam sales haven't been revenant since the end of the Steam Flash sales now that's when steam was brilliant. I could spend £50 and I would have bought about 20 games well known ones as well

ac shadows is 40 euros for me and that is a totally great price i’m contemplating getting it

They aren't sales any more even with PS+ there not worth it you can get them cheaper on disc if you look hard enough, how GTA5 is still £40 I don't know when it's always in the sales list every month.

And Borderlands 4 for £119 jesus get the F out of here, I got Farcry 4 3 months ago for like £3.79 now thats a sale but picked up the season pass 2 days ago for £3.30 as well. Star Wars Fallen Order I got for like £3.99 those are the prices for older games id like to see

@judgmentarrows if you hold on a little bit longer, it'll inevitably be under 20 or even free on PS+, 40 is still way too much

Enjoyed Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night for the most part a while after it was released, and see PushSquare gave it a 9/10.

Currently playing Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree, and to me it is a better game than fellow 'Castlevania Clone' BRotN.

@get2sammyb Mandragora is worthy of a review as much as Bloodstained, even if it is belated.

@deezcronuts Its the best game Xbox released since Forza Horizon 4 in 2018, let them charge whatever they want for it.

BF6 is about £35 from some retail stores.

@get2sammyb Late reply but the main problem this game has is not having much to do in the open world (not anything interesting anyway). Story missions are pretty good and gameplay overall is alright, although definitely not nearly as good as the Arkham games.

Oof, yeah, this is bad. I managed to spend only a small sum for BF and Holiday sales. But I got pinged for A LOT of goodies this time. Fantasy Life I is on sale for the first time! Dispatch also, with a somewhat negligible $3 off. PowerWash Simulator 2 also a small discount. Silksong and more!

RIP wallet indeed

@Hyena_socks
"Blimey, a sale on a FromSoftware game! I’m still a bit scared to play...."
You should give it a go. The great thing about E.R. is the fact that if you get to a boss you can't beat... just run away and level up doing other stuff. Then come back and beat the snot out of them. Go where you want and do what you want. Elden Ring is awesome and made me a believer. It is also in my opinion the easiest of the Dark Souls games because you can run away and level up. I highly recommend it!

@Svark that’s great to know, thanks! I’ll take the dive next year when my backlog is down a bit.

I can't stand browsing the store I'm done I'm just going to now go out and find games 2nd hand on disc perm, I'm so fed up of the shovelware crap on the store filling up sales slots that could be used for other unknown indie title

Even the PS app has a bug were if your browsing the store say under sales and are scrolling near the end of the list or half way through. It duplicates the same games again then some different ones then the dame set of games again. Sick and tired of seeing AI generated assets flip BS that are clearly just for people to boost trophies they need to clean it up

browses comments to see if people are already moaning about a digital sale and that stuff is cheaper on discs and that they hate Sony and that they hate gaming

As ever, not disappointed in my search.

@1970sGamer lol always the best moments.

Now you guys be careful with them purchases, we don’t want another Bend Studio fiasco “If YoU HaD bOuGhT iT aT fUlL pRiCe We WoUlD hAvE mAdE a SeCoNd GaMe”

Still no Erd Tree discount. Beginning to look like I'll never play it.

@1970sGamer
Perfectly happy as far as I'm concerned.
Mostly because work generously gave me a 180€ gift card ^___^.

Now, all that remains is to select which one of my wishlisted items will make it into the backlog and which will have to wait for another sale...

That's the kind of problem I like. Those perfectly disconected from the real world's trouble

Buy physical for more value ❤️

Satisfactory is on sale at -15%, at least in Europe, that is... that's good news !! 😊

The sale actually doesn't end until 21st jan. They just added loads of new games to the sale to replace the ones ending on 7th jan.

I’ll immediately go to Amazon to order these 99+ games that are on sale in the PS Store.

How's the player-base these days on Rematch? Very tempted.

What I'm not tempted for is Absolum. That's an instant buy for me now. I actually picked up four new games last week - Shinobi, Divinity Original Sin 2, The Crew Motorfest, Gears of War. And I'm balls deep into Death Stranding 3... those will all be getting shelved this weekend for Absolum.

This might be the first time in a really, really long time I didn't get a single ping from my wishlist. Kinda wild. I did pick up a handful of things with the part 1 of this sale, and like 1-2 things for BF, but man.

Fallout 4 is $5. I haven't played a Fallout game in years, so why not? I started it last night, and it's neat.

Incidentally, it's fun to juxtapose the "War never changes" line with the one from Metal Gear Solid 4, "War has changed."

@guacguacboo if you really want to play it, just give it a couple of months or so when it will inevitably be free on PS+

Picked up Absolum a few days ago it's an absolute blast. Also, I can't recommend Tchia enough, it was one of my favorite games of 2024.

We are OFK being on this list unironically is wild

@Steeleye25 I've just put two hours into Absolom, and absolutely loving it so far.

I really wish the Team ICO games would get a PS5 patch one of these days.