Sony has revealed the full line-up of PlayStation Plus Games Catalog additions for November 2023, which includes Teardown, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, and PaRappa the Rapper 2.
Announced on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 14 games are joining the library: nine in the Games Catalog available to Extra and Premium members and five in the Classic Games Catalog only available to Premium members.
November perhaps doesn’t include as many big hitters as last month, but a highlight is Teardown, which launches on PlayStation 5 today, November 15, and is available on the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog immediately. Perhaps the most surprising entry is Up from the PlayStation Portable coming to the Classics Games Catalog.
PlayStation Plus Games Catalog Additions for November 2023
- Teardown | PS5
- Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen | PS4
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme vs. Maxi Boost On | PS4
- Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition | PS4
- Superliminal | PS4 + PS5
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising | PS4 + PS5
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi | PS4
- Alternate Jake Hunter: Daedalus The Awakening of Golden Jazz | PS4
- River City Melee Mach!! | PS4
PlayStation Plus Classics Games Catalog Additions for November 2023
- Grandia | PS4 + PS5
- Jet Moto | PS4 + PS5
- Up | PS4 + PS5
- Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series | PS4 + PS5
- PaRappa the Rapper 2 | PS4
Teardown launches day-one onto the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog. The heist game presents puzzling challenges to the player in a genuinely fully destructible environment, putting freedom and emergent gameplay at the heart of the experience.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen lets players explore and interact with “a rich, living and breathing world”, per its synopsis, expanding on the original Dragon’s Dogma with the cursed Bitterblack Isle. In our 7/10 review, IGN said: “Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen’s new enemies fight dirty, but this expansion’s a challenge worthy of Dark Souls fans.”
Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS. MaxiBoost On is a two-versus-two fighting game from 2020. It earned a spot in IGN’s top 10 anime video game adaptations of all time too. “While the game has a barebones but satisfactory story mode, its multiplayer is where it’s at, which features fast-paced action that has you constantly dashing, jumping and dodging your opponents’ attacks while trying to impose your own will on them,” we said.
Dead Island: Riptide earned a 7/10 from IGN, when we said it’s “more of the same, and while that means flaws, it also means gory dismemberment fun.” It launched way back in 2013 for the PlayStation 3, but this Definitive Edition version arrived on PlayStation 4 a few years later.
More puzzles arrive in Superliminal, “a first-person puzzle game based on forced perspective and optical illusions”, its synopsis reads. “Puzzles in this game give you a sense of the unexpected. Players need to change their perspective and think outside the box to wake up from the dream.”
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising launched in 2022 as a town-building action adventure game. It earned a 7/10 from IGN as well: “Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is a fun companion to Hundred Heroes, offering a bitesize action RPG that stands up on its own merits.”
Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi is another entry in the historical simulation game series that launched in 2018 and thrusts players into Sengoku Era Japan. “The game highlights the Resolve of the officers to show not only their ability, but also their humanity,” reads its synopsis.
Alternate Jake Hunter: Daedalus The Awakening of Golden Jazz isn’t just the longest game name going but also a New York City-set crime thriller in a visual novel format. Players must find clues and interrogate potential criminals in this intense murder mystery.
River City Melee Mach!! lets four people play at once with controls designed to be simple and intuitive. It features 30 teams, 180 characters, and more than 250 special moves to be used across its brawler gameplay.
Grandia is a PlayStation classic that earned a 9/10 review from IGN back in 1999. “This is a game that relies more on characters to tell the story and it does it incredibly well,” we said. “While some gamers may flinch at the overly simplistic tones and themes that play out through the first half of the game, you’d be selling the game short if you didn’t push through and see the game to conclusion.”
Another PlayStation title arrives in Jet Moto, a 1996 racer IGN awarded a 7/10 in our review of the PSP version. “Jet Moto is still a pretty fun experience more than 10 years after its original release. It’s tough, fast and, most importantly, fun. Pick this one up if you want a fun racer and don’t mind decade-old visuals,” we said.
Up, despite being based on the beloved film, didn’t do so hot in IGN’s review. Believe it or not, it earned a 5/10 in our review: “It will keep the good times rolling for the younger audience for a few hours at the most but the experience has some complications that will stump younger children. The ease of jumping in and out of cooperative play is appreciated but the majority of the game is woefully far from fun.”
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series is a 3D side-scrolling action game series that first arrived on the original PlayStation, but this collection includes both the first game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and its PlayStation 2 sequel Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil.
PaRappa the Rapper 2 is another highlight for November, returning players to the beloved rhythm game franchise. This time around, PaRappa squares off against the Noodle Group, an evil organization that seeks to turn all of the world’s juicy hamburgers into simple pasta.
The games added in October 2023 were a full on spookapalooza, with perhaps the biggest being Batman-based co-op action game Gotham Knights. Smash hit Disco Elysium: The Final Cut also arrived, bringing what IGN called a “masterpiece” to Extra and Premium members.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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