PlayStation Summer Sale returns for the next two weeks

A lot of repeats, but there are some new deals

We’re well into summer, and that means scorching days, soothing Seals & Crofts, and lots of gaming deals. The PlayStation Store Summer Sale started today with over a thousand deals on PS4 and PS5 games lasting through Wednesday, August 3 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific.

The bulk of the sale is going to be older stuff, naturally — but a few newer releases stand out in the crowd. Supermassive Games’ cinematic horror romp The Quarry, Sloclap’s tense martial arts brawler Sifu, Saber Interactive’s team-based Evil Dead: The Game, and Team Ninja’s super eclectic Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin are worth a nod.

With an eye toward games with new low pricing, here are some recommendations.

PlayStation Store Summer Sale highlights

• Actraiser Renaissance ($20.99)
• Batman: Arkham Collection ($8.99)
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night ($13.99)
• Cris Tales ($15.99)
• Death’s Door ($11.99)
• Disco Elysium – The Final Cut ($19.99)
• Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen ($4.79)
• Dying Light: Definitive Edition ($12.49)
• Evil Dead: The Game ($29.99)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed ($14.99)
• In Sound Mind ($10.49)
• Mafia: Trilogy ($23.99)
• Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 + 2 ($15.99)
• Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom ($13.19)
• Murder House ($6.59)
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy ($14.99)
• Resident Evil 2 + 3 ($23.99)
• Resident Evil 7 Gold Edition ($15.99)
• Sakura Wars ($17.99)
• Sifu ($31.99)
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin ($41.99)
• The Quarry ($40.19 on PS4, $46.89 on PS5)
• The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe ($16.74)
• Tormented Souls ($11.99)
• Yakuza 0 + Kiwami + Kiwami 2 ($12.49)

If you haven’t shopped in any digital PlayStation sales lately, you’ll find even more worth-checking-out games. I try not to do too many repeats from one sale to the next if I can help it. And while not everything here is a historically low price, they’re all competitive (as far as the PlayStation Store goes, at least). Hopefully enough to get you started!

Sony has a complete list of PlayStation Store Summer Sale deals over here on the PlayStation Blog, if you prefer to ctrl+f your way through text entries. The deals are set to last through August 3, at which point “new titles [will be] added to the promotion.”

With the usual mix of featured games and a lot of random backlog fodder calling my name in the PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium catalog, I’ll probably be sitting this one out. (Granted, I always say that, then impulse buy something at the last minute.)