PS Plus January 2024 Essential includes indie hit Nobody Saves the World

27 December 2023 , 16:50

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Dungeon crawler Nobody Saves the World arrives on PS Plus next week (Image: Drinkbox Studio)

Sony has confirmed the first batch of PS Plus games for 2024 with Evil West, A Plague Tale: Requiem, and Nobody Saves the World making up the PS Plus January 2024 Essential games.

The PS Plus January 2024 Essential games lineup is celebrating the launch of 2024 by giving away three of 2022's best and brightest, headed up by the indie hit Nobody Saves the World. Coming from Guacamelee developer DrinkBox Studios, Nobody Saves the World is an action RPG dungeon crawler in which you take the role of a nobody and (as the title implies) save the world. You can take the form of a slug, an egg, or just a naked man and become the saviour of humanity.

Also arriving in the PS Plus January 2024 Essential games batch is A Plague Tale: Requiem which was nominated for five awards at The Game Awards 2022, including Game of the Year (losing out to Elden Ring, which isn't really a fair fight for anyone). Rounding out the trio is Evil West, which was more of a cult hit. You take the role of a vampire hunting cowboy as you shoot and punch your way through the oncoming hordes to save the USA. The game feels like a lost Xbox 360 game, so for those of you who yearn for that era, it's well worth picking up.

PS Plus January 2024 Essential games

Sony confirmed the PS Plus January 2024 Essential games in a post on the PlayStation Blog, and it's as follows:

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (PS5)
• Nobody Saves the World (PS4 | PS5)
• Evil West (PS4 | PS5)

These games will be available to redeem on Tuesday, January 2 and will remain available until Tuesday, February 6, which is when the three games included in the PS Plus Essential February 2024 lineup will become available.

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PS Plus Extra and Premium Subscribers will have to wait until Wednesday, January 11 to find out which games will be joining the roster of titles for those tiers, with the games becoming available the following Tuesday, January 17. However, those games will be around much longer than a single month, thankfully. So if you need something to play before the onslaught of new releases in February 2024 begins, you'll undoubtedly be able to pick something up.

Scott McCrae