It’s one of those months where we get very different games again. For US and Europe, the two headlining games are Friday The 13th and Laser League. Both indie multiplayer games that you may or may not heard of.
For Asia, we are getting neither of those. RPG Portal Knights and violent rhythm game Thumper are on our list.
What gives? Friday The 13th has never been made available on PS Store Asia. Though this is not the sole reason, there have been games that appear on PS Store Asia thanks to its PS Plus deal.
A better guess is that all development of the game has been ceased. There is now a legal dispute over who owns the right to the IP and that directly affected developers Gun Media, who are forced to stop making any new content for the game, including, we assume, releasing it on PS Store Asia.
But this does not explain Laser League’s absence considering it is available on the Store all localised and ready.
But still, the two headlining games are worth checking out. Thumper is nothing to scoff at. It is made by Harmonix veterans, the developers behind Rock Band. Initially a PS VR game, Thumper is a “rhythm violence” game but not in a traditional sense- there’s no blood and gore. It’s just the intensity of the beats and actions of your shiny beetle plowing through a rhythm highway not like your traditional music games.
For Portal Knights, it is an action-RPG with voxels and building mechanics. Like Minecraft, but the focus is more on the RPG and action stuff rather than the building. It also features online co-op for up to four players.
For the additional titles, there are the same with US and Europe bar one:
- Rocketbirds 2 Evolution (PS4, PS Vita)
- Master Reboot (PS3)
- The Bridge (PS4, PS 3, PS Vita)
2064 Read Only Memories is also missing for Asia.
It is unfortunate that PS Plus offers for Asia can be wildly different from the US and Europe though there have been some good months where we got the extra love- like Gravity Rush Remastered. And in this case, we got Thumper before the other regions.
Source: Playstation Blog, Playstation Asia