Sony has revealed the full line-up of PlayStation Plus Games Catalog additions for April 2024, which includes Dave the Diver, Animal Wall, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, and more.
Announced on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 16 games are joining the library: 13 in the Games Catalog available to Extra and Premium members and three in the Classic Games Catalog only available to Premium members.
April is perhaps headlined by Dave the Diver, the pixel art aquatic adventure role playing game which became a hit upon its launch in 2022. All games hit the service on April 16, with the exception of Tales of Kenzera: Zau and Animal Well which launch straight onto the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog on April 23 and May 9 respectively.
Animal Well lets players explore a dense interconnected labyrinth and unravel its many secrets in a surreal, puzzle box world of platforming adventures. IGN called it a "delightfully unconventional take on a puzzle platformer" in our first preview of the game back in 2022.
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is an EA-published, Surgent Studios-developed 2.5D story-driven, action-exploration game shaped by Assassin’s Creed actor Abubakar Salim’s own experience with grief. It arrives a little later than other entries as the game doesn't actually launch until April 23.
Dave the Diver is the hit ocean exploration and adventure game from MintRocket, which tasks players with diving into the mysterious blue hole and uncover its secrets (while running a sushi restaurant in the evenings, obviously). IGN gave it a 9/10 in our review, saying: "Dave The Diver is an aquatic adventure RPG that’s wholesome, wonderfully complex, and delightfully hard to put down."
"Bend your knees and thrust your hips" reads the tagline for OddBallers. "It’s time for an intense dose of hard-hitting dodgeball action." OddBallers is multiplayer party game where each round is a new and over the top type of dodgeball.
Want to create wonderful things but don't want to get your hands dirty? Construction Simulator is the grandest version of the simulation series yet and offers players a fleet of vehicles capable of constructing anything the mind can imagine. An IGN writer even recreated their dad's real life construction company in it.
The Crew 2 moved beyond the open road to the seas and skies too, as players can explore all of the United States of America. "The Crew 2 is big, confident, and stuffed with arcade racing action but it's an uneven and unfinished package," we said in our 7/10 review.
Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action adventure game set in ancient India where players take on the role of Raji, a young girl chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion of the human realm.
LEGO Ninjago became a movie and then a video game in the aptly titled LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game. Featuring classic LEGO game goodness, LEGO Ninjago lets players work through a collection of levels and collect dozens of different characters, upgrades, and more.
Nour: Play With Your Food does exactly what it says on the tin. It's an experimental food art game with no goals or objectives, and instead just encourages players to have fun and play with food in curious and unconventional ways.
Deliver Us Mars takes players to the Red Planet for a dangerous new mission involving plenty of puzzle solving. It earned a 6/10 in IGN's review: "A rousing mystery brought to life by a great voice cast and nuanced character writing can't really save Deliver Us Mars from its shortcomings."
Another 6/10 comes in LEGO Marvel's Avengers, which offers similar gameplay to LEGO Ninjago but with a cast of Marvel characters like Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and more. "LEGO Marvel's Avengers is fun, but unfortunately restricted by stubbornly sticking to the Marvel Cinematic Universe," we said.
In the not-too-distant future, America has been torn apart by a savage force known only as the Miasma, and in Miasma Chronicles, players must join Elvis and his robotic older brother on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Rounding out the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog titles for April 2024 is Stray Blade, an RPG focusing on melee combat. It earned just a 5/10 in IGN's review, as we said: "Stray Blade tries and fails to free the Soulslike from gloomy settings and opaque storytelling, falling short of both its own ambitions and the genre’s standards."
Back when Alone in the Dark Games were a dime a dozen, The New Nightmare arrived with a whole new feel for the classic survival horror franchise. "All in all, if you're a fan of this type of game, there's a good chance you'll like it," IGN said in our original 7/10 review from 2001. "But don't go in expecting the same old Alone in the Dark because you won't find it waiting for you."
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2: The Hidden Empire perhaps isn't the best Star Wars game out there. It actually placed on IGN's 10 worst Star Wars games of all time list (though at number 10), where we brought attention to its "infuriatingly cumbersome vehicle controls".
Last but not least, probably, MediEvil also joins the Classic Games Catalog in April. This isn't the remake released in 2019, however, but the original 1998 version for the original PlayStation. It earned a 5/10 when IGN reviewed it in 2007, when we commented on it already feeling "a little stale".
March 2024's games included, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and more. Resident Evil 3 was perhaps the biggest of the bunch though, a spooky third person shooter. "Another stellar remake of a classic survival horror from Capcom," IGN said in our 9/10 review.
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Announced on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 16 games are joining the library: 13 in the Games Catalog available to Extra and Premium members and three in the Classic Games Catalog only available to Premium members.
April is perhaps headlined by Dave the Diver, the pixel art aquatic adventure role playing game which became a hit upon its launch in 2022. All games hit the service on April 16, with the exception of Tales of Kenzera: Zau and Animal Well which launch straight onto the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog on April 23 and May 9 respectively.
PlayStation Plus Games Catalog Additions for April 2024
- Animal Well | PS5
- Tales of Kenzera: Zau | PS5
- Dave the Diver | PS4 + PS5
- Oddballers | PS4
- Construction Simulator | PS4 + PS5
- The Crew 2 | PS4
- Raji: An Ancient Epic | PS4 + PS5
- LEGO Ninjago Movie Videogame | PS4
- Nour: Play With Your Food | PS4 + PS5
- Deliver Us Mars | PS4 + PS5
- LEGO Marvel's Avengers | PS4
- Miasma Chronicles | PS5
- Stray Blade | PS5
PlayStation Plus Classics Games Catalog Additions for April 2024
- Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare | PS4 + PS5
- Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2: The Hidden Empire | PS4 + PS5
- MediEvil | PS4 + PS5
Animal Well lets players explore a dense interconnected labyrinth and unravel its many secrets in a surreal, puzzle box world of platforming adventures. IGN called it a "delightfully unconventional take on a puzzle platformer" in our first preview of the game back in 2022.
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is an EA-published, Surgent Studios-developed 2.5D story-driven, action-exploration game shaped by Assassin’s Creed actor Abubakar Salim’s own experience with grief. It arrives a little later than other entries as the game doesn't actually launch until April 23.
Dave the Diver is the hit ocean exploration and adventure game from MintRocket, which tasks players with diving into the mysterious blue hole and uncover its secrets (while running a sushi restaurant in the evenings, obviously). IGN gave it a 9/10 in our review, saying: "Dave The Diver is an aquatic adventure RPG that’s wholesome, wonderfully complex, and delightfully hard to put down."
"Bend your knees and thrust your hips" reads the tagline for OddBallers. "It’s time for an intense dose of hard-hitting dodgeball action." OddBallers is multiplayer party game where each round is a new and over the top type of dodgeball.
Want to create wonderful things but don't want to get your hands dirty? Construction Simulator is the grandest version of the simulation series yet and offers players a fleet of vehicles capable of constructing anything the mind can imagine. An IGN writer even recreated their dad's real life construction company in it.
The Crew 2 moved beyond the open road to the seas and skies too, as players can explore all of the United States of America. "The Crew 2 is big, confident, and stuffed with arcade racing action but it's an uneven and unfinished package," we said in our 7/10 review.
Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action adventure game set in ancient India where players take on the role of Raji, a young girl chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion of the human realm.
LEGO Ninjago became a movie and then a video game in the aptly titled LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game. Featuring classic LEGO game goodness, LEGO Ninjago lets players work through a collection of levels and collect dozens of different characters, upgrades, and more.
Nour: Play With Your Food does exactly what it says on the tin. It's an experimental food art game with no goals or objectives, and instead just encourages players to have fun and play with food in curious and unconventional ways.
Deliver Us Mars takes players to the Red Planet for a dangerous new mission involving plenty of puzzle solving. It earned a 6/10 in IGN's review: "A rousing mystery brought to life by a great voice cast and nuanced character writing can't really save Deliver Us Mars from its shortcomings."
Another 6/10 comes in LEGO Marvel's Avengers, which offers similar gameplay to LEGO Ninjago but with a cast of Marvel characters like Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and more. "LEGO Marvel's Avengers is fun, but unfortunately restricted by stubbornly sticking to the Marvel Cinematic Universe," we said.
In the not-too-distant future, America has been torn apart by a savage force known only as the Miasma, and in Miasma Chronicles, players must join Elvis and his robotic older brother on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Rounding out the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog titles for April 2024 is Stray Blade, an RPG focusing on melee combat. It earned just a 5/10 in IGN's review, as we said: "Stray Blade tries and fails to free the Soulslike from gloomy settings and opaque storytelling, falling short of both its own ambitions and the genre’s standards."
Back when Alone in the Dark Games were a dime a dozen, The New Nightmare arrived with a whole new feel for the classic survival horror franchise. "All in all, if you're a fan of this type of game, there's a good chance you'll like it," IGN said in our original 7/10 review from 2001. "But don't go in expecting the same old Alone in the Dark because you won't find it waiting for you."
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2: The Hidden Empire perhaps isn't the best Star Wars game out there. It actually placed on IGN's 10 worst Star Wars games of all time list (though at number 10), where we brought attention to its "infuriatingly cumbersome vehicle controls".
Last but not least, probably, MediEvil also joins the Classic Games Catalog in April. This isn't the remake released in 2019, however, but the original 1998 version for the original PlayStation. It earned a 5/10 when IGN reviewed it in 2007, when we commented on it already feeling "a little stale".
March 2024's games included, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and more. Resident Evil 3 was perhaps the biggest of the bunch though, a spooky third person shooter. "Another stellar remake of a classic survival horror from Capcom," IGN said in our 9/10 review.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
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