PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for May: Ark: Survival Ascended, Balatro, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

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Ark: Survival Ascended | PS5


Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain? Your new world awaits in this survival sim, reimagined from the ground-up with Unreal Engine 5, with high-end graphic features, advanced physics systems and quality of life revamps in every area. Ark: Survival Ascended includes access to all of Ark's worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Ark Genesis Part 1, Ark Genesis Part 2, and more. The game supports public online multiplayer for up to 70 players, private-session multiplayer for up to 8 players, and local split-screen for 2 players.


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Balatro | PS5, PS4


In this poker-inspired roguelike deck builder, it's all creating powerful synergies and winning big. Play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers and trigger outrageous combos in this roguelike strategy experience. Combine valid poker hands with unique joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You're going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.


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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun | PS5, PS4


Load up your Boltgun and plunge into battle headfirst! Experience a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, classic, frenetic FPS gameplay and the stylish visuals of your favourite 90's retro shooters. Play a battle-hardened Space Marine on a perilous mission across the galaxy, as they battle against the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos. In glorious boomer shooter style, unleash your devastating Space Marine arsenal as you blast through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood. Run, jump and charge across huge levels to shoot, shred and slice the worst heretics across the galaxy!


All three games will be available to PlayStation Plus members on May 6 until June 2.


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Last chance to download April's games


PlayStation Plus members have until May 5 to add RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker's Memory to their game library.
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Balatro is amazing. I didn't really care for Boltgun, but the only retro shooter I really enjoyed was Dusk.
 
Apart from balatro, which i already have, meh...

mckmas8808 said:
Is Boltgun supposed to be fun?
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I have it on PC and as really fun looking boomer shooter, it isn't.

maybe the game picks up much later, but i got i think 3 or 4 levels in and the gameplay just never evolved beyond what you do in the first level.

There are far greater shooters in the genre, which is disappointing because boltgun genuinely looks awesome
 
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I'm still trying to understand the brainwash behind Balatro's massive success because I played it and it's one of the most average games I've ever played.
 
obigbrubs said:
Balastro is a nice surprise, does it even has a story mode?
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I wouldn't call it a story mode but it has different decks which give different perks or advantages. Some decks give more discards, hands able to be played more consumable slots etc. And as you beat some you unlock more. There is a surprising amount of decks overall.

There is also a challenge mode, which is 20 challenges to try and complete. Think you start with 5 and as you complete some, more unlock.
 
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StueyDuck said:
Apart from balatro, which i already have, meh...


I have it on PC and as really fun looking boomer shooter, it isn't.

maybe the game picks up much later, but i got i think 3 or 4 levels in and the gameplay just never evolved beyond what you do in the first level.

There are far greater shooters in the genre, which is disappointing because boltgun genuinely looks awesome
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Same.
It's incredibly mindless. Even Wolfenstein 3D has more depth.
I gave up after maybe two hours. Not sure what level that was. But they're pretty short, so 4-6?
 
Down for boltgun. Had it on my wishlist for a long time and always on sale. Balatro is a lot of fun but not sure about the overhype of it, it's fun but lets relax.
 
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Oh boy, here I go playing through Balatro again
 
I loved Balatro on Switch. I'd be tempted to replay for the platinum, but that list looks ridiculous and miserable.
 
Damn. One of those rare months where I have all 3 games already! Might be the 1st time that's happened actually.

Bought ark cause of friends and barely played it. They love it though.
 
Balatro sucks. Music is annoying. The trap is trying to lure players in to playing for hours for small amounts of dangling fruit. Game gets old after a few hours.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
Balatro sucks. Music is annoying. The trap is trying to lure players in to playing for hours for small amounts of dangling fruit. Game gets old after a few hours.
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Yeh just a few hours.

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Honestly, some of you deserve a lifetime of Concord for your sins.
 
GHG said:
Yeh just a few hours.

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Honestly, some of you deserve a lifetime of Concord for your sins.
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You misunderstand. I'm saying they want you to play a few hours per session just to unlock a few odd jokers. At that point it becomes boring and repetitive as others have already said.

You can go on long runs and still not get anything sometimes, except maybe an insult for wasting your time. Shit game.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
You misunderstand. I'm saying they want you to play a few hours per session just to unlock a few odd jokers. At that point it becomes boring and repetitive as others have already said.

You can go on long runs and still not get anything sometimes, except maybe an insult for wasting your time. Shit game.
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So I didn't misunderstand anything.

May you enjoy Concord, alone, for all eternity in the afterlife.
 
GHG said:
So I didn't misunderstand anything.

May you enjoy Concord, alone, for all eternity in the afterlife.
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I don't enjoy GaaS games, and I'm NOT saying the game is only good for a few hours total. I'm saying you can play for hours and never advance anything. If you enjoy chasing your tail and wasting your time, good for you.
 
ShadyAcshuns said:
I don't enjoy GaaS games, and I'm NOT saying the game is only good for a few hours total. I'm saying you can play for hours and never advance anything. If you enjoy chasing your tail and wasting your time, good for you.
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Usually this would be what's known as a skill issue, but in this case it's an IQ issue.
 
Boltgun is so sick and has great accessibility options (cheats) baked right in to the options so if you suck at Boomer Shooters you can have unlimited ammo and god mode plus they don't disable trophies. Balatro is fun until you beat your first run and then it's like "ok, now what? This is it?".
 
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Balatro is awesome, played a load on my Steam Deck, will be great to play on my portal too for trophies.
 
We already got Ark in March 2022. (The base version, but how much more new stuff is in Ascended?)
Balatro is amazing though, and will try Boltgun.
 
Lucifers Beard said:
It is fun, providing you enjoy boomer shooters. If you don't then this will not change your mind.
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Visually it's trying to be a boomer shooter, but I'd argue it's more of a modern Arena Shooter. Has more in common with DOOM Eternal than with the likes of DOOM 1993 or Quake. Good game, but I got pretty tired of it by the end.
 
Ark was crack to me. I was too hooked on that game, I love the premise too much and to be frank I thought it looked pretty damn good

Hundreds of hours spent! Single player too

The real pisser came a few days ago on Steam, I'd uninstalled it a while back only to reinstall it (150+ Gigs) to find it didn't have Steam cloud saves.. my save, gone! All that after putting up with frame rate problems, bugs, losing dinosaurs randomly, all sorts of shite. Such pain.. hours, just evaporated

Fucking livid!

Just don't do it

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Maybe I should re, re install it though :pie_thinking:

Maybe it'll be better this time..
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