Cheap ps4 games downloads

The best cheap PS4 games that make up this list all cost less than $20, but are still some of the best experiences you're able to have on the PlayStation platform. Varied in genre and gameplay, in age and length, you will be able to find something you like here that costs a third or even less of the price of a standard new game you'd pick up in a store.

Some players like to pick up cheap games because they have limited budgets and don't mind waiting to pick up older titles once their prices have dropped. Others are less interested in the price and more in the unique ideas that inexpensive indie games can explore. And others may want to build out their collection to make sure they don't miss out on the best titles of years gone by. Whichever category you fall into, you'll find the best way to make use of your $20 on the PlayStation Store here.

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What are the best cheap PS4 games?

Before revealing our favorites, we've got to mention that none of these games are free to play. You can check out our other list for our best free PS4 games.

But as for the best cheap PS4 games, my personal pick of the bunch would be Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete edition. An enormous open world made even larger by the presence of all the available DLC in one package, this game has both interesting mechanics and an entertaining story, all for an amazingly cheap price.

The latest multiplayer craze is Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, a platforming game that you complete simultaneously with and against other players online. You can spend money to get fancy cosmetics, but the basic experience comes in under our $20 limit.

For co-op players, Cuphead is a great test of you and a partner's skills. Platforming and shooting are challenging and often lethal, but the ability to quickly revive one another means with good communication, you'll be able to make it through even the toughest of the game's charmingly animated bosses. Alternatively, you can play against each other in the bizarre Fight of Animals, a 2D fighter where the combatants are various beasts from internet folklore.

If you're after story and nothing else, Night in the Woods and Journey are the games you should check out. There is some platform puzzling to do as you navigate from plot beat to plot beat, but these two very different tales show off some of the best narratives in gaming.

For strategy fans, John Wick Hex will scratch that itch. You'll require a mind for tactics in order to shoot your way in slow motion through hordes of baddies. If you're wanting a different kind of puzzle to solve, perhaps Mini Metro's abstract subway networks will let you flex your mental muscles with a less intense theme.

Telling Lies is a unique experience too. While it's a game all about story, you have to go looking for it through a deliberately obtuse in-game database. The mystery slowly reveals itself to you if you know how to look for it, providing a unique challenge for people who like to take things slow.

You can also check out the best split screen PS4 games for multiplayer fare.

The best cheap PS4 games you can buy today

1. Watch Dogs 2

The second game in the open-world hacking series takes you to San Francisco, where, as new protagonist Marcus Holloway, you join Deadsec to take on the ctOS system that monitors the city.

As well as conventional weaponry, you also have the ability to hack nearby devices, such as your enemies' smartphones, drones or even parts of city infrastructure, to help you fight back. And if fighting against the city isn't enough, you can also join up in co-op to get or give a helping hand, or invade another user's game and engage in a tense game of cat and mouse, trying to figure out their disguise and take them out first.

2. Fight of Animals

Taking inspiration from viral animal memes, this game puts pets and wild beasts together in an arena for a Street Fighter-style showdown that manages to be both complex but very dumb.

To cut through to the heart of the game, it's a 2D fighter. That means you'll be moving and jumping backwards and forwards in a straight line, deciding when best to block and attack in order to win the best of three rounds.

You'll need to be seriously online to understand where the ideas for the characters came from, but anyone can appreciate the absurd spectacle of a jacked Shiba Inu punching a magical squirrel. There's also a pretty robust combo system beneath the silly visuals, meaning that if you spend some time getting to grips with the game, then you can become the apex predator when you challenge your friends, try the game's arcade mode or fight against others online.

3. Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

The newest game to take social media by storm, this battle royale-style title doesn't involve fighting directly, but rather platforming by way of running, jumping, diving and grabbing.

Each round takes you through your way to the end of one of several tricky obstacle courses. Make it to the end fast enough, or complete one of the other unique goals tied to different maps, and you'll get to progress to the next round, until a victor is decided in a final free-for-all.

With up to 60 players a match each playing as a cute bean-shaped character, there's a lot of visual appeal, particularly when you begin to unlock cosmetics to customize your avatar's look and emotes. Sometimes you'll be playing against all of the other players, but other times you will be split into teams for a more cooperative experience.

4. Cuphead

After two years of Xbox and PC exclusivity, you can finally play this beautifully designed and dastardly difficult platformer/shooter. As Cuphead and/or Mugman, you'll travel across the world to hunt down and defeat a number of bosses who owe their souls to the Devil, just like you. It's a dark-sound theme, but it's presented with charming hand-drawn animation designed to look like 1930s cartoons. In motion, there's no other game that looks like this.

You'll be seeing frequent restarts as you tackle each boss, as you're only a fragile cup and they will strike you down with some brutal attacks. But the good thing is you won't mind, since the game looks great, and sounds awesome thanks to its jazzy soundtrack, and there's customization options if you feel you need to change up your tactics. If you have patience to learn the game's systems and the enemies' patterns, you'll be hooked on Cuphead.

5. Superliminal

Puzzle games often require you to look closely at your environment to figure out what to do next, but in Superliminal it's even more important. Your perspective on the scene matters, because moving things around changes their size, allowing paths to be uncovered and built out of the everyday items you find around you in-game. This is a game that's definitely going to stretch your mental muscles in a way they have not been tested before.

While the world you find yourself in is quiet and peaceful (apart from the comically small and large objects you've left behind), there's a strange story going on in the background, in which you're the subject of a strange kind of therapy represented by the puzzles. The voiceover narrator may remind you of another unusual puzzle solving game involving portals, but Superliminal is its own unique beast that deserves your attention.

6. Moving Out

Helping your friends move out of their house is a chore in real life, but it's a lot more fun in this game. With up to four people, you'll extract furniture from homes and other buildings full of junk outside and into your truck. Luckily for you, you can carry the possessions out in more ways than just the door, and your clients don't seem to mind about breakages, but the environment around their homes and business will be full of more hazards than you may have expected.

You're able to collect a variety of character customization pieces to swap between as you complete removals in your quest to become the best company in town. There are usually a couple of different ways to complete a level depending on if you want to blast through the game or you want to master the game's strange physics system and controls. And if you want an even tougher challenge, then the Arcade Mode lets you try moving a sofa through some more difficult environments. Whichever one you choose, you'll find a scenario that's the perfect level of difficulty for you and your friends.

7. John Wick Hex

Just like the film trilogy that this game is based on, John Wick Hex is about strategizing your way through an overwhelming number of armed enemies.

This isn't a shooter, it's more of a strategy title that is somewhere between real-time and turn based, the game pausing each time you reach an enemy so you can figure out your approach to the situation. Every action you then take is measured on the in-game timeline, be it movement, shots or reloads, against those of the enemies, allowing you to play around with options to see which solution lets you survive unscathed.

The game has a look that's just as interesting as its blend of genres. You'll travel between varied environments all rendered in a comic book style that makes a whole lot of sense given the apparent superpowers that John Wick has with whatever gun is in his hands.

8. Telling Lies

There's a mystery that needs solving, and the only evidence you have is a series of clips from video chats between four different people going back over four years. Using the search capabilities of the data based you've 'acquired', you have to go through the clips to find out what happened between them.

The catch is that you'll only get the first five results for whatever term you search for, even if that word appears in the transcript of more than five clips. This means you can't just skip to the end immediately, and even if you did, there's no guarantee you'll know what's going on. You'll need to choose your search terms carefully, taking note of key names, places and phrases to learn what you should search for next, and from there figure out the answers to your questions.

9. Untitled Goose Game

As the Goose named in the title, you have only one goal - bother the villagers in as many ways as you can find. They may be going about their day tending to their garden, running a pub or just relaxing reading the newspaper, but you have a list of mischievous tasks to get on with, and you can’t be reasoned or bargained with. You'll be breaking, entering, stealing, flapping and honking from start to finish and any boundary you come across won't stop you for long. 

This short but very sweet experience will take you to various areas around a picturesque village where there are lots of ways you can spoil a person’s day. The simple graphic style and piano score give the game an atmosphere like an old-fashioned cartoon, making it a pretty enjoyable spectator experience as well as a player one.

When you’re done with what you might call the game's campaign, you can try out a speedrun of each area, or look for hidden tasks that combine the items from around the map in fun ways.