April 2015 - games, that were released this month for PlayStation 4

Trials Fusion: After the Incident - release date for PlayStation 4

Arcade, DLC, Futurism (Future), Motorcycle racing, Racing

April 1, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 50/100

An expansion for Trials Fusion in which the player investigates the disaster that devastated Earth and rides through a post-apocalyptic landscape. Its new career...

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin

Role-playing game, Action, Third-person view, Collection, Fantasy / Medieval

April 2, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 7, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin is a global re-release of an action role-playing game with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. Initially, Dark Souls II...

Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Cooperative (co-op), Science fiction

April 2, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair is an improved edition of Earth Defense Force 2025 for modern platforms. The game takes place in the near future...

Bastion

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Post-apocalyptic, Indie

April 7, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 8, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Bastion is an action-adventure RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. You will go to a fairy-tale world, which, by the will of fate, is gradually...

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

April 7, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 8, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This science-fiction stealth platformer follows a clone trying to escape a high-tech testing facility. The route spans five areas connected by an explorable...

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action

April 7, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 10/10

Steam: 63/100

Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is an isometric strategy game from the developers at Blazing Griffin. The game is published by Blazing...

Tower of Guns

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Roguelike, Replayability, Comics

April 7, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 8, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 10, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

A fast-paced first-person shooter with roguelike elements, Tower of Guns sends players through a tower whose levels, enemies, and power-ups change with each run...

Krinkle Krusher

Strategy, Indie, Tactics, Casual game, Action

April 7, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 61/100

Krinkle Krusher is an action strategy game about defending a castle from hungry creatures called Krinkles, who return after generations of peace. Their arrival...

Aaru's Awakening

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Adventure

April 8, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 59/100

A hand-drawn 2D action platformer set in the dangerous mythical world of Lumenox. The player controls Aaru, a mythical creature on a quest to defeat an evil...

Mortal Kombat X

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Futurism (Future), Online

April 14, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Mortal Kombat X is a popular side-scrolling arcade fighting game set in the Mortal Kombat universe. The game takes place 25 years after 2011's Mortal Kombat. The...

Teslagrad

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Steampunk

April 14, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Teslagrad is an arcade quest with platformer elements and futurism style. In this game, you use the power of electromagnetism to solve puzzles and battle horrors as...

Titan Souls

Action, Isometric, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure

April 14, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 15, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Titan Souls is an action-adventure set among ancient ruins, where titans guard scattered fragments of the spiritual source of all living things. A lone hero armed...

Mortal Kombat X: Kombat Pack

Arcade, Fighting, DLC, Side view

April 14, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.4/10

Mortal Kombat X: Kombat Pack — addition to the side-view arcade fighting game Mortal Kombat X. Now you can participate in fights as the nightmare Jason...

WE ARE DOOMED

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Indie

April 14, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 15, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 61/100

WE ARE DOOMED is an academic top-down shooter in the Geometry War style, made in bright colors. Expect dynamic action with laser shootouts, a neon world, exciting...

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

April 21, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an old-school pixelated platformer about Shovel Knight, who must destroy his enemies to save his beloved and defeat the evil...

LA Cops

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Strategy, Indie

April 21, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 22, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 10/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 47/100

This top-down shooter follows Los Angeles police officers in the 1970s as they take on criminals and a boss known as Hawaiian Mo. 3D cutscenes tell the story, which...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Historical, Parkour

April 21, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 22, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is a side-scrolling arcade-adventure stealth platformer set in the Assassin's Creed universe. The game begins the story of a...

Ziggurat

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

April 21, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Ziggurat is a first-person shooter with roguelike elements, inspired by the Hexen and Painkiller series. You have to put on the skin of a sorcerer and go...

Infinity Runner

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Runner

April 21, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 22, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 48/100

Infinity Runner is an adventure shooter with horror elements and a first-person view in a sci-fi setting, supporting virtual reality devices. The events of the game...

Evil Within: The Consequence

Action, Horror, DLC, Third-person view

April 21, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 22, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 9/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 75/100

An expansion for The Evil Within, The Evil Within: The Consequence is the concluding part of a two-part story about detective Juli Kidman, the mysterious partner of...

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory 2

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

April 23, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.5/10

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory 2 is a third-person role-playing game with an anime/manga twist from the developers of Compile Heart Co., Ltd., Idea Factory Co. and...

BRAWL

Strategy, In real time, Isometric, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Card game, Action, Casual game

April 23, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 73/100

This multiplayer bomb-fighting game takes place in the dark Emporium, where eight characters with their own backstories battle one another. BRAWL offers different...

Tropico 5

Simulation, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, Tactics, City Building

April 23, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 24, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 28, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Tropico 5 — continuation of the banana republic dictator simulator. You have to take control of a small republic again and lead it through world wars, the...

Toukiden: Kiwami

Action, Slasher, Third-person view, Hunting / Fishing, Cooperative (co-op)

April 23, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This hunting action game takes place in a world displaced in time and space by the power of the Oni. A rookie Slayer joins the fight against the monsters...

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend

Arcade, Fighting, Anime / Manga, Side view, Action

April 23, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 83/100

BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend is a Japanese-style side-scrolling arcade fighting game. The game is an expanded edition of BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma with an...

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Point & Click, Comedy

April 28, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 29, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

Brawl (2015)

Arcade, Action, Isometric, Top-down view, Indie

April 28, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 61/100

This horror-themed arena game combines bomb-based arcade combat with MOBA elements in the dark Emporium. Players choose from eight characters, each with a backstory...

Project Root

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Indie

April 28, 2015 → PlayStation 4; April 29, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 47/100

Metacritic: 42/100

Project Root is a classic shoot ’em up with open scenarios, set against the conflict between a group of rebels and Prometheus Corporation, which controls the energy...

Rack N Ruin

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Hack and slash, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval

April 29, 2015 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 59/100

This isometric action-adventure with arcade shooter elements follows Rack, a demon wizard sent by the dark lord Ruin to conquer a world. Rack usually destroys the...