PlayStation Announces Spooky Lineup Of PS Plus Games For October

October 2024's PlayStation Plus games have been announced, and they feature two horror games just in time for spooky season, plus another non-horror offering. The reveals were just one of the announcements made during the September 2024 State of Play, which featured dozens of new game reveals.

Next month's free PS Plus games were announced at the Sony State of Play, as well as on the PlayStation Blog. and will be available for all PS Plus subscribers starting on October 1. Two PS classics will also arrive on the platform for PS Plus Essential subscribers,and .

October is the perfect time to play spooky horror games, and two of the free games coming to PS Plus next month have just the right vibe. is the oldest of the bunch, but it's a good one. The cute and colorful imagery of the game may not seem too threatening to those who haven't had the pleasure and horror of experiencing it when it first launched in 2017.

With all the thrills and the scares, but without a single cent to spend, these spooky video games are ideal to play this Halloween.

is seemingly a harmless anime-dating sim. However, underneath its sugary anime exterior is a well-crafted psychological horror game that messes with the player. The edition arrived on PS5 in 2021 and includes additional content and side stories for the characters.

is more overt in its horror elements. The PS5 edition is a 2023 remake of the 2008 game by the same name. The sci-fi horror game follows spaceship engineer Isaac Clarke as he embarks on a mission to repair the USG Ishimura. However, upon arriving at the spaceship, Isaac finds the ship's crew has been slaughtered and his partner lost somewhere on the ship. leans hard into its survival horror elements, pitting Isaac against horrific amalgamations called Necromorphs and his own declining mental stability.

The final game on the roster for October 2024's free PS Plus games seems to be the odd one out of the bunch. The wrestling game is certainly not a horror game. It is,