
Skinny: Again, any time you can get a full-featured licensed sports video game, that’s value, and 2K Sports made a smart move by rolling out NBA 2K16 during a memorable league playoffs. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PS Vita, PSP).

Skinny: Tropico 5 is an interesting choice, but without Sony reaching back for six- and eight-year-old games like BCR2 and God of War this would be the shakiest month of the year.

In all, there were 72 games available for free to PlayStation Plus subscribers in 2016, with an average Metacritic score of 74.1 and a combined retail price (current price, through the PlayStation Store) of $1,150.79. These questions may shed light on where these free games programs are headed are headed, particularly as the previous console generation ages. To that, however, we’ve added a few more questions: How old is the game? and Did Sony also publish it? Did these appear earlier on Xbox Live Games With Gold? We’ll try to answer that question this year as we have before. Were they any good? What would they cost otherwise? In short, what do the numbers say about the value of this PlayStation Plus benefit?

On Wednesday, PlayStation announced the last batch of free games to PlayStation Plus subscribers for December, bringing to 72 the number of titles it offered in 2016.
