The PlayStation Store’s “Holiday Sale” sale is one huge sale to end the year with. It doesn’t have a specific theme, per se, but it does have scores of fantastic deals on a ton of titles. Many of them are even from 2025, giving players ample reason to dive back in before they finalize their Game of the Year lists.
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Here are the 10 best deals in the PlayStation Store’s “Holiday Sales” sale. These sales will be live until January 7th at 11:59 PM PT, but given how the overall sale is going until January 21st, more games will likely be cycled in in the coming weeks.
10) Hollow Knight: Silksong
Price: 15.99 / $19.99
Hollow Knight: Silksong already launched at a shockingly low price, and now it has gotten even cheaper. It may not be for everyone because of its high difficulty, but it’s mighty rewarding for those who persist. Tight controls, grueling platforming gauntlets, and tough-as-hell boss fights make it one challenging experience, and these are key parts of why it is so beloved. It’s a lot like Dark Souls in that it asks a lot of players, but gives them so much in return.
9) Silent Hill f
Price: $41.99 / $69.99
Silent Hill has never been more back, and Silent Hill f has played a huge role in its resurgence. This entry set in Japan takes the series’ essentials and reinterprets them through its time period and setting. It uses fantastical storytelling and metaphors to speak to real issues that are quite unique to the gaming space and to the Silent Hill games as a whole. Even with a few small missteps here and there, Silent Hill f handles these mature topics gracefully and weaves them into a tale that makes the nearly mandatory extra playthroughs worth it.
8) Disco Elysium
Price: $9.99 / $39.99
Few games have writing as beloved as Disco Elysium. This surreal narrative-heavy RPG has players constantly shaping who they are through choices and dialogue, leading to a staggering amount of variation. Instead of traditional combat, encounters are handled through skill checks and give weight to how players play. And while not as bombastic as many of its peers, it, once again, is able to overcome this through its dense and nuanced script.
7) Hell Is Us
Price: $35.99 / $59.99
Many players don’t like being led by the nose, and developer Rogue Factor made Hell Is Us exactly for those people. This RPG doesn’t have obtrusive mission markers or icons to guide players around. Players have to listen and pay attention in order to make progress, which is more immersive and encourages exploration. Some of its puzzles get repetitive and the combat, while fine, doesn’t change as much as it should, but being treated with respect and someone with a decent attention span makes Hell Is Us more than worth experiencing.
6) Chants of Senaar
Price: $11.99 / $19.99
Learning new languages can be quite hard, but Chants of Senaar gamifies that feeling and the reward that comes with it. Having to figure out what phrases mean through foreign symbols is a naturally sound puzzle mechanic and masterfully builds throughout the game. While the stealth segments are a drag, it’s a novel puzzle game with an eye-grabbing visual style.
5) The Outer Worlds 2
Price: $48.99 / $69.99
Even though Fallout is coming back into vogue because of the new season of the Prime Video show, it’s still worth delving into its spiritual successor, The Outer Worlds 2. This RPG is an enhanced version of the first game in many ways with its refined combat and more streamlined interface. It retains a lot of the qualities of that 2019 original like its detailed and branching character progression and ability to offer multiple solutions to the same problem, but they haven’t lost their luster here. While it’s not as funny or novel as the first game, it’s still written fairly well and demonstrates Obsidian Entertainment’s writing chops.
4) Mega Man 11
Price: $4.49 / $29.99
Mega Man is finally coming back, making now a great time to jump back into one of his best games. Mega Man 11 is a tight platformer that’s not just a nostalgic retread of the same ideas. It’s recognizably a Mega Man game with its boss-centric layout, but it also benefits from modern design like smoother and more customizable difficulty, fairer level design, and responsive controls. It set a high bar for the recently announced sequel.
3) Amnesia: Rebirth
Price: $1.49 / $29.99
Amnesia: Rebirth flew a little under the radar, but it’s still a great horror game that demonstrates Frictional Games’ skill with the genre. Rebirth is about skulking through the dark, solving puzzles, and managing light sources because there are few things scarier than a pitch-black hallway. This narrative goes places, too, and isn’t just about avoiding ghouls in the desert. It’s not as fantastic as The Bunker or as mortifying as The Dark Descent (or as mediocre as A Machine for Pigs), but it still holds its own and plays its part within the series.
2) High on Life + DLC Bundle
Price: $24.99 / $49.99
High on Life 2‘s imminent release doesn’t mean the first game has no value. This zany first-person shooter centers around unorthodox talking weapons and alien worlds that give this game its own personality. The genre could use more personality-driven games like this, so even though its Rick & Morty-esque humor can get a little grating at times, its novelty is strong enough to persist through the mediocre, stammer-ridden jokes. The DLC, thankfully, excises Justin Roiland’s obnoxious character and even delves into horror territory, making for a decent expansion.
1) Turbo Overkill
Price: $9.99 / $19.99
Turbo Overkill is a fittingly silly name for a fast retro first-person shooter that’s all about movement and explosions. Players are encourage to zip around with the chainsaw-equipped legs and rack up a copious amount of kills in the blink of an eye. Describing it makes it seem basic, but the high movement speed, well-tuned weapons, surprisingly deep RPG mechanics, well-paced vehicle sections, and visual style make this one of the better first-person shooters in recent memory.
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