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Top 10 PS Now Games In June 2020 – That You Can Play Right Now!

PS Now, or, PlayStation Now, is the streaming service that launched to match Microsoft’s ever popular Xbox Game Pass. Dropping in 2015, it was designed to be a intuitive, easy-to-use streaming service similar to Netflix – but for games.
The idea was to allow modern gamers access to the classic games of the golden era.

Fast forward five years, and now, for only £8.99 you can access a vast library of PlayStation games spanning every generation of Sony’s consoles.
These games are available to stream, download and play any time. Stuck for what to play? Here’s our top 10 PS Now games available… Well, right now!

Side note: We haven’t included Spider-Man because if we did, it would be all 10 entries on this list… seriously, go and play Spider-Man, it’s incredible!

1. Bloodborne

If you thought Dark Souls would be the only series to kick your butt, you’re dead wrong. From the same studio, meet it’s sister franchise, Bloodborne.

Bloodborne is just as difficult as it’s counterpart, set in a gothic-esque victorian era. Inspired by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Bram Stoker, Bloodborne takes place in Yharnam where you take on the role of a hunter as the city is overcome with an endemic illness that has transformed the residents into beasts. 

A title that will strike a chord with fans of the Souls games, Bloodborne will not only refuse to hold your hand through its tough gameplay, it will (quite literally) push you over.

If you’re looking for a challenge on the PlayStation during lockdown, Bloodborne is one of the top PS Now games of 2020!

2. The Sly Collection

Flash back to the golden era of gaming, the PlayStation 2, was rife with titles donning cartoon graphics and colourful protagonists. In 2002, Sucker Punch Productions teamed up with Sony Computer Entertainment to bring you Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus. With it’s film noir and comic book aesthetic, the young raccoon stole the hearts of gamers with adventure platform fun for all ages and spawned a franchise that would endure a decade. 

Flash forward to 2014 and Sanzaru games who took over the development of the franchise in 2010 released a remastered port of the first three games on the Playstation 3 and Playstation Vita, complete with trophy compatibility for the Playstation 3 and Playstation 4. If you’re looking for a fun, easy-going nostalgia trip Sly might be your answer. Sly sneaks his way onto number 2 of our top PS Now games of 2020!

3. Overcooked 2

Most party games that encourage working together to achieve a core goal, promote helping one another, sharing, and world peace.

Overcooked on the other hand, is a party game that will have you snapping your controller in a fit of rage, because your mums character won’t stick to HER side of the kitchen and JUST CHOP CARROTS!

Team17’s Overcooked 2, takes the rage inducing recipe of the first game, and mixes it together with a lot more fun and creative levels, with an extra splash of white hot rage, and a sprinkle of frustration.

It’s a cooking simulator that has teams of up to four players work together to prepare and cook orders in absurd restaurant settings including serving pirate ships at sea, cooking for penguins on an iceberg and cooking meals whilst jumping from truck to truck. 

It certainly tests team work… and friendship.

Just don’t remember to have fun. And to stay out of my way when I’m serving meals!  

4. Sonic Adventure 2

It has been a roller coaster for everybody’s favourite blue hedgehog. From the dizzying heights of Sonic Heroes, to the tragic lows (Looking at you Sonic ‘06). However, everyone will remember Sonic Adventure 2 as one of those gems in the series. Picking up from where it’s predecessor left off after a battle with Perfect Chaos, Sonic heads off in an adventure after he is mistaken for Shadow. 

Or, if constant high speed levels aren’t your thing. You can always return to raising Chao in the Chao gardens that return from Sonic Adventure. With an extended system, Chaos have a lot more to offer in this entry. From different chao types, new races and more. 

5. Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch

What if we said, you could play a Studio Ghibli game? Well, Ni No Kuni is the closest you’ll get as Level-5 and Studio Ghibli teamed up to bring gamers Ni No Kuni Wrath Of The White Witch in 2013 on the Playstation 3 and went on to release a sequel, Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. 

6. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

The finale of the 2013 reboot, Shadow of the Tomb Raider takes our heroine to modern day Mexico to continue following trinity, though in her naivety in an attempt to keep an artifact from the antagonistic organisation triggers “The Cleansing” – a Mayan apocalypse and she must race against time across South America the Amazonian jungle.

Many of the features of its predecessor’s such as costumes, equipment upgrades and fast travel. Like Rise of the Tomb Raider served to show her beginning to pursue her own goals, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was designed to show her mastering the environments she is thrown into and serves as an ending to the rebooted origin story of Lara Croft with her becoming the Tomb Raider we all know her to be.

7. XCOM 2

A strategy turn-based game set 20 years after the original XCOM as humans attempt to fight off an alien invasion. The player character is assigned as the commander of the military organisation known as XCOM and the game is played from a top down perspective on a grid with missions requiring players to play against a timer or complete tasks within a set number of turns with each map generating differently on every playthrough. 

Once players complete a first playthrough of the campaign, a difficulty called “Ironman” is enabled. Where the save file is overwritten whenever the player performs an action, making every decision count and being unable to reverse bad outcomes.

8. Blazblue: Central Fiction

Modelled after classic arcade fighters, Blazblue: Central Fiction features a cast of thirty-six varied and unique characters to use as fighters each with their own arcade mode story and backstory that influences Central Fictions story mode.

If that’s not enough, the game features a huge roster of stages for multiplayer play where friends can battle it out on local or online multiplayer, allowing players to customise stages with their favourite music and swap the colour palettes of characters before facing their foes with smooth gameplay that allows for unlimited combos, finishers and even taunting your opponent. 

9. Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight is a 2D-Side scrolling action adventure game where the player assumes the character of a nameless knight known as a “vessel” or “ghost” as they traverse an ancient plague-infested kingdom known as Hallownest. As the game goes on, you unlock abilities that enables you to explore areas that weren’t accessible before and through dialogue with other characters you receive insight into the origin of the infection and the kingdom itself.

The plot branches with the choices you make in game having multiple endings to access with several expansions also available.

10. Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice

Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice or known as Absence of Detention is an isometric tactical RPG. The game follows protagonist Mao who attends a Netherworld school called Evil Academy as he attempts to fufill his ambition of overthrowing his father, the Netherworld’s Overlord as well as claiming revenge or having his gaming systems destroyed.

The game is a turn-based RPG where the character is tasked with recruiting party members, training and equipping them and using them to progress through the story.

Liam Bartlett

Always chooses the Fire-Type Pokemon.