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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Dead Island 2, Two Point Campus, Gris, Return to Monkey Island and more

Draugoth

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Battle zombies across Hell-A, attempt to outwit a serial killer and their trap-filled hotel, build the ultimate university campus and learn the devastating, hilarious art of riposte and more with October’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup*! Dead Island 2, The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me, Two Point Campus, Return to Monkey Island and more games are available to play from October 15. On the same day, an awesome foursome of titles join PlayStation Plus Premium in the form of PS VR2 game The Last Clockwinder and three Classics – Capcom adventure Dino Crisis, terrifying horror Siren and iconic sci-fi shooter R-Type Dimensions EX.


Let’s take a look at each game in turn.


PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium | Game Catalog


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Dead Island 2 | PS4, PS5


Dead Island 2 is a thrilling First-Person Action RPG, stylish, vibrant and flooded with zombie infection. Explore an iconic, gore-drenched Los Angeles. Meet larger-than-life characters. Slay countless foes in exquisitely bloody detail. And evolve to become the ultimate Zombie Slayer! There are six characters to choose from, each with their own unique personality and dialogues. You can fully customize the abilities of each Slayer, with a brand-new skill system allowing you to re-spec instantly and try out the craziest builds. The game includes an over-the-top co-op mode for up to three players.


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Two Point Campus | PS4, PS5


Take your simulation management experience to a class above with Two Point Campus, the sequel to the multi-million selling Two Point Hospital. Two Point Campus is jam-packed with new creative tools to help you build the university of your dreams. The academic year begins with a summer break, giving you enough time to get everything looking great before your students move in. Build libraries, hire the best staff, kit your campus out with the best courses and watch the academic potential of your students get unlocked.


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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me | PS4, PS5


The Dark Pictures is a series of stand-alone branching cinematic horror games from the studio behind Until Dawn. Easy to pick-up and play in short sessions, alone or with friends. The Devil in Me is the fourth game in the series and the Season One finale. A group of documentary film makers receive a mysterious call inviting them to a modern-day replica of serial killer H.H. Holmes’ ‘Murder Castle’. It’s an opportunity that’s too good to pass up and could be just the thing they’re looking for to win some much-needed public interest. The hotel is the perfect set for their new episode, but things aren’t quite as they seem. The crew discover they’re being watched and even manipulated, and suddenly there’s much more at stake than just their ratings! Can you outsmart the killer and checkout all your cast? All playable characters can live or die in your version of the story.


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Gris | PS4, PS5


Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. As the story unfolds, Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way, revealing new paths to explore using her new abilities.


Grus is a serene and evocative experience, free of danger, frustration, or death. Players will explore a meticulously designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score. Through the game light puzzles, platforming sequences, and optional skill-based challenges will reveal themselves as more of Gris’s world becomes accessible.


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Return to Monkey Island | PS5


Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Banter with old friends and new faces on familiar islands now under dangerous new leadership. Then, take to the high seas and explore the new and unknown as you work your way out of tough predicaments. Clever puzzles, bizarre situations, and devastating ripostes are all that stand between Guybrush and glory.


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Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed | PS4, PS5


This fun multiplayer game is perfect for all skill levels. Four proton pack wielding Ghostbusters attempt to catch a Ghost haunting unique locations in asymmetrical multiplayer battles (online or offline). As players progress, they will unlock cosmetics and upgrades for both Ghostbusters and Ghosts to evolve their gameplay experiences. The look and feel will deliver to fans an immersive experience in the universe, allowing them to play out their Ghostbusting fantasies. This game will allow players to enjoy the game solo or with up to four friends and includes an online and offline single-player mode in the form of bot-assisted play.


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Firefighting Simulator The Squad | PS4, PS5


Become part of a major US city’s firefighting team and experience how it feels to fight fires. Discover over 40 diverse deployment locations spread across the city inspired by the North American West Coast. Equip yourself with authentic firefighting gear such as helmets, firefighter boots, and a breathing apparatus model by well-known North American firefighting equipment manufacturers. In single player mode, become the leader of an experienced firefighting team. In multiplayer co-op mode, play with up to three friends and take on whichever role suits you most. Assign tasks to your team or jump into the action yourself.


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Overpass 2 | PS5


Identify the best routes and balance of power, speed and precision to overcome obstacles at the controls of a UTV, ATV or Rock Bouncer in both solo and multiplayer modes, your talent and choices of technique will make the difference. Put your skills to the test in 5 game modes in which you have to come to grips with demanding challenges: off-road sprint, off-road circuit, hill climb, obstacle course, closed circuit. At the controls of powerful buggies and quads from major manufacturers such as Yamaha, Arctic Cat and Suzuki, you will travel across 30 routes in 5 regions: Baja Desert, East Central US, Johnson Valley, Utah Desert and Western Europe.


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Tour de France 2023 | PS4, PS5


Play the mountain or flat stages and experience the intensity of the Grande Boucle. Pedal alongside the best cyclists, test your endurance and show your panache to triumph on the Champs-Elysées in the official game of the Tour de France 2023.


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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands* | PS4


Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world. In a near future, Bolivia has fallen into the hands of Santa Blanca, a merciless drug cartel who spread injustice and violence. Their objective: to create the biggest Narco-State in history. Create and fully customize your Ghost, weapons, and gear. Enjoy a total freedom of playstyle. Lead your team and take down the cartel, either solo or with up to three friends.


*PlayStation Plus re-release.


PlayStation Premium | PS VR2 & Classics


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The Last Clockwinder | PS VR2


Clone your actions into endlessly repeating loops to build assembly lines and contraptions. Harvest resources, grow plants, and restore life to an ancient tree in this award-winning VR game. Your mission is to repair the Clocktower, an ancient haven for the galaxy’s plants. Use the Clockwinder’s gloves to turn the actions you take into looping clockwork clones. They can do everything you can, from planting to cutting to throwing items through the air. Use their help to save the Clocktower!


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Dino Crisis | PS4, PS5


Three years ago, a scientist researching a new source of clean energy known as Third Energy died during an experiment. Now, alarming reports arrive from an agent dispatched to a small country in the South Seas. Regina, a member of a government spy team tasked with extracting the scientist, heads for the isolated island where the military facility is located. Experience Dino Crisis, originally released on the original PlayStation, now enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters.


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Siren | PS4, PS5


Experience Siren, originally released on PS2, now enhanced with up-rendering, rewind, quick save, and custom video filters. Midnight. A siren calls and a sea of red water mysteriously surrounds the mountain village Hanuda. Slowly, a terrible force transforms the inhabitants into shibito, undead husks of their old selves, fueled by evil and hate.Play as one of ten characters caught in a living nightmare. You have three days to learn how their paths intersect as they try to stay alive. Survival depends on your ability to “sightjack” or the power to see through the eyes of friends and foes. There is no one hero. There is little hope.


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R-Type Dimensions EX | PS4


The coin-op classics, R-Type & R-Type II, are together on PS4! Fight through all 14 Bydo-infested stages in retro 2D graphics or shiny 3D graphics – and swap back and forth with the touch of a button ‘on-the-fly’. The new 3D graphics are accompanied by fully reimagined arrangements of the timeless R-Type music tracks. The classic game-play remains untouched while the new Infinite game mode allows continuous progression from game start to final boss. Both game modes can be played as single player or local multiplayer.
 
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jataple

Neo Member
I have to say, the classic catalogue of ps plus is getting so good, at the start of the premium service i didnt like it that much because there were so few classic titles, but not the pool of classic games on the service is getting not only bigger and bigger but they are adding very valuable additions to that pool with incredible classic games
 
Pretty decent month for me, I'll give Dead Island a go, Campus is on my wishlist to buy, I'll always play a monkey Island and semi interested in Gris

Is the ghostbusters game like L4D / Alien Fireteam Elite kind of thing?
 

StueyDuck

Member
Honestly... ps plus pays off for me more than gamepass 🤷‍♂️ hot take i know, but i prefer getting big games a bit later than mid games on day 1.

Dead island 2 has been on my watch list for a big sale for a while now
 

Cakeboxer

Gold Member
Yeah the mid games. But i don't care much for them, so being day one on gp also doesn't interest me.
What are the mid games to you? Monkey Island, Dead Island 2 and Two Point Campus were fun. Don't know the rest, but Devil me and Ghostbusters are in the 6/10 range on Metacritic.

I've noticed that the games that come to both Gamepass and + usually also go free on Epic Game store.
Thx for reminding me, forgot last weeks game(s).
 
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Kerotan

Member
R type dimensions was removed last month as a PS3 stream only game. I guess we know why.

Dead Island 2 I was going to buy this year so now I just need the dlc. TLOUP1 also and it came last month. Good shavings!
 

Mr Hyde

Member
Dino Crisis is day 1, holy shit that's a good release. I sold my original copy and it never got released on PS3 (I think?) so getting this on PS is awesome. Hopefully they add trophy support too. Game is a certified Shinji Mikami banger. Now we need info on Blood Omen releasing and 2024 is complete 🙏
 
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Who do you voodoo? lol

I’ve been meaning to get to Dead Island 2 eventually so this is a decent month for me. I bought Ghostbusters a few months ago though and have yet to play it, another reminder to stop buying games unless if I’m ready to play them immediately.
 

Roberts

Member
Two Point Campus was a pretty fun sim game and I pretty much never play them. Probably because it is super intuitive and not particularly hard while having tons of mechanics.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Don't tell me DC is only tied to PS Premium? I can't find a store page for it on the PSN website. I just want to buy that, not subscribe to the overpriced tier.
 

nial

Member
Don't tell me DC is only tied to PS Premium? I can't find a store page for it on the PSN website. I just want to buy that, not subscribe to the overpriced tier.
Nothing to do with that, they don't get up on PSN until the PS Plus refresh day.
So, even if Dino Crisis was locked to PS Plus Premium like Resident Evil Director's Cut (I still believe Capcom only did that due to them wanting the remake to be THE RE1), you would still be able to see it on the website.
 

Neolombax

Member
My patience paid off again. Dead Island 2 and Monkey Island for me, Ghostbusters for the son. Wasn't Blood Omen supposes to be available as well?
 

xrnzaaas

Member
I'll definitely buy Dino Crisis if the emulation will turn out to be problem-free.

Same with Blood Omen when it's released. I do have an Evercade device, but it's going to be cheaper this way (and with trophies ;) ).
 
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Playstation is running out of games to add to the service. They will eventually have to bring back the Square-Enix library again, as that was more appealing that the indie/AA Western games they keep adding.
 
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