PS Plus November 2016 free games list, news: 'Everybody's Gone to the Rapture' to be offered

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Playstation Plus is a paid monthly subscription that allows members to download free games every month. Sony has now revealed the free games that PS Plus subscribers can get for the month of November for the PS4, PS3, and PS Vita.

As shown on the official Playstation blog, PS4 subscribers will get both "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture" and "The Deadly Tower of Monsters."

The former is a critically acclaimed first-person open-world game set in the 1980s. In the game, the protagonists discover that they may be the last humans on the planet. While it features traditional FPS gameplay, it also features challenging puzzles and deep philosophical themes.

Going in the complete opposite direction is "The Deadly Tower of Monsters," which is a third-person action game that pays both tribute and parody to B-movies from the 1950s and 1960s. There are numerous parodies that are inspired by the likes of "Invasion of the Saucer Men" and "King Kong."

PS3 owners will be able to download "Dirt 3" and "Costume Quest 2." The former is a rally action racing game that has involved some of the high-end extreme sports of Ken Block. The latter is a light-hearted RPG that focuses on a pair of twins using their costumes to save Halloween.

On the PS Vita players can get "Pumped BMX Plus" and "Letter Quest Remastered." Just like "Dirt 3," "Pumped BMX Plus" is an extreme sports title while the latter is a cute RPG that centers on grim reapers having to take on a legion of monsters.

"Pumped BMX Plus" is available for the PS3 and PS4 as well, via cross-buy, and "Letter Quest Remastered" is available for the PS4 but not the PS3, also due to cross-buy support. Getting a cross-buy game for one platform means gamers won't have to buy it again to play it on another console they own.

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