January 2021 - games, that were released this month for PlayStation 4

Summer in Mara - release date for PlayStation 4

Simulation, Adventure, Business / Management, Farm Simulator, Exploration, Crafting

January 5, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Summer in Mara is an adventure action game with farmer simulator elements and a third-person view from the creators of Deiland. The game tells the story of a...

Iris.Fall

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Casual game

January 8, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Iris.Fall is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game that tells the interesting story of a little girl, Iris. One day she wakes up in an unfamiliar place...

Helheim Hassle

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

January 12, 2021 → PlayStation 4; January 20, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Helheim Hassle is an adventure game with puzzle elements. The player controls a pacifist Viking named Bjorn, who has a unique ability — he can detach and...

Cube Life: Island Survival

Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Sandbox, Action, Adventure

January 13, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 55/100

This block-based open-world game combines survival on a deserted island with freeform construction. The stranded protagonist must find food and resources, maintain...

Collapsed

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

January 13, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 74/100

Collapsed is a post-apocalyptic action platformer with Rogue-lite elements. In the game you will play the role of Hunters, forced to hunt down their enemies for...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Adventure, Online

January 14, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a fun side-scrolling action game based on the original Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie. Following the story of the...

Loot Hero DX

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view, Roguelike

January 15, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 5/10

Steam: 71/100

This side-scrolling action RPG follows a hero travelling across ravaged lands to defeat a legendary dragon. The creature sets towns ablaze, while its magic brings...

Waves Out!

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Platformer, Top-down view, Casual game

January 19, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Waves Out! — an exciting top-down arcade action game with puzzle elements in a sci-fi setting. The main character is a small but fearless metal man named...

Turrican Flashback Collection

January 19, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Metacritic: 70/100

This collection brings together four games from the Turrican series: Turrican, Turrican II: The Final Fight, Mega Turrican, and Super Turrican. Players shoot and...

Crimsonland (2003)

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic

January 20, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with RPG elements, pitting the player against aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and other enemies. The goal is to survive the...

Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy

Puzzle, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Indie

January 20, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 59/100

Marble Duel: Sphere-Matching Tactical Fantasy is a casual indie match-3 puzzle game. Players will have to become powerful magicians and free the kingdom captured by...

Hitman World of Assassination

Action, Shooter, Stealth, Third-person view, Virtual Reality (VR)

January 20, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 86/100

The new series of games about agent 47 is the famous killer playing in dressing and peeping. The bald killer will return for the sake of the most important...

Teratopia

Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Platformer, Indie, Slasher, Arcade, Open world

January 20, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 83/100

Teratopia is an arcade platformer with cute graphics and orchestral music. Inspired by the best representatives of this genre, he tried to absorb that mischievous...

Path of Exile: Echoes of the Atlas

Role-playing game, Action, Online, Hack and slash, In real time, Isometric

January 20, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Path of Exile: Conquerors of the Atlas is a fresh expansion to the fantasy action role-playing game Path of Exile, which adds new locations and bosses to the game...

Redout: Space Assault

Simulation, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action

January 22, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Redout: Space Assault is a third-person sci-fi simulator set in the Redout universe. You have to take on the role of an orbital fighter pilot. The plot will tell...

Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Visual novel, Tactics

January 22, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen is an adventure role-playing game with turn-based combat in the Japanese style. In the game you will try on the role of a young...

Cyber Shadow

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Anime / Manga, Metroidvania

January 26, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Cyber Shadow is a dynamic side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The world has been taken over by synthetic life forms. A desperate cry for help...

Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Adventure, In real time, Exploration, Crafting, Turn-based, Puzzle

January 26, 2021 → PlayStation 4; January 29, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy is a Japanese-style role-playing adventure viewed from the third person, which is a sequel to Atelier Ryza: Ever...

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls

Arcade, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view, Action, Indie

January 26, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will be...

The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff Pack

Business / Management, Strategy, God Simulator, Third-person view, In real time, Casual game, Simulation, Mysticism / Supernatural

January 26, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff Pack is an expansion for the real-time life management simulator The Sims 4, which adds a touch of the paranormal and mysticism to...

Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click

January 27, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is a colorful "point and click" adventure in the Dark Eye universe. In the distant kingdom of Andergast, where patriarchal morals and...

Auto Chess

Online, Fantasy / Medieval, Chess game, Tactics, Free game, Strategy

January 27, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 65/100

Auto Chess is a free-to-play multiplayer tactics game that features chess in a fantasy setting. Victory is achieved through the proper placement of hero figures on...

Memoria

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Puzzle

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 89/100

Set in the fantasy world of The Dark Eye, this adventure follows two protagonists in different eras. Princess Sadja joins the War of the Mages in pursuit of...

Disjunction

Role-playing game, Action, Stealth, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Detective, Shooter

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Disjunction is an isometric action role-playing game inspired by cyberpunk style and old school games. The game takes place in 2048 in New York. You can decide for...

Olija

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Olija is a pixel platformer about Faraday, a shipwrecked man who ends up in the mysterious country of Terraphage. He is armed with a legendary harpoon, which he...

Sword of the Necromancer

Indie, Role-playing game, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Top-down view, Procedural generation

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Sword of the Necromancer is an action RPG with roguelike elements where you can revive dead enemies to fight on your side. The main character acquired this ability...

Gods Will Fall

Action, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Role-playing game, Slasher, Roguelike

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4; January 29, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Gods Will Fall is an RPG adventure in which you lead a handful of Vikings in a daring fight against the cruel gods. For the latter, you either blindly worship and...

Colossus Down

Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Side view, Arcade, Fighting, Adventure, Action, Anime / Manga

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Colossus Down is a juicy side-scrolling fighting game about a girl named Nika and her fight against everything uncool. For her own purposes, she even assembled a...

Prison Architect - Going Green

DLC, Simulation, Business / Management, Strategy, Top-down view, In real time, Indie

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 58/100

Prison Architect — Going Green — an expansion for the real-time management strategy game with a top-down view. The expansion brings farming, product export, and...

TOHU

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Casual game, Puzzle

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 70/100

TOHU is a cute 2D platformer in an unusual setting. In the game you have to try on the role of a heroine who can turn into her mechanical alter ego. Together with...

Citizens Unite!: Earth x Space

Role-playing game, Adventure, Casual game

January 28, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This comedic adventure RPG brings together two stories: in one, the Vice President of the World investigates strange calamities and the disappearance of a local...

Silver Chains

Action, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie

January 29, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 51/100

Silver Chains is an action-horror adventure game with a first-person view. The game tells the story of the main character named Peter, who wakes up in an old...

Bonkies

Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Puzzle, Side view, Futurism (Future), Construction, Online

January 29, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Bonkies is a fun side-scrolling co-op arcade puzzle game in a sci-fi setting, designed for up to 4 people to play together. Each player takes control of a highly...

Re:ZERO - The Prophecy of the Throne

Adventure, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Visual novel, Tactics

January 29, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Re:ZERO — The Prophecy of the Throne is a tactical adventure with visual novel elements and turn-based combat, based on the anime of the same name. A month...

The Pedestrian

Puzzle, Logic, Side view

January 29, 2021 → PlayStation 4

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Pedestrian is a 2.5D puzzle platformer in which a pedestrian icon moves through public signs set within a dynamic 3D world. This textless adventure conveys its...