Google’s gaming platform Stadia will continue to grow again this year and will attract visitors on the first day with a large selection of free titles. At the start of the new year and the new month, there are 45 free games that you can get as part of the Stadia Pro subscription. This means that the personal game database can continue to grow in 2022.
At the start of the new year, Google is stepping up again and changing the selection of the titles available at Stadia Gratis. At the beginning of the year, four titles left the list (Figment, Cthulhu Saves Christmas, Street Power Football and Mafia III).
But they also added five games, so the counter is 45, one higher than last month. This means that the pace will remain high for the start in 2022 – let’s hope it stays that way. (Note, for the start of the new year I have now sorted the list alphabetically. New entries and departures are marked separately).
The following 45 games are available for free in January
- ARK: Survival Evolved
- AVICII Invector
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night ( New since January 1 )
- Cake Bash
- Control Ultimate Edition
- Crayta
- Crayta: Premium Edition
- Darkiders III ( New since January 1st )
- Destroy All Humans
- DIRT 5
- DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of the New Riders ( New January 1st )
- DreamWorks Spirit Lucky’s Big Adventure
- Epistory: Typing Chronicles
- FLOOR KIDS
- Foreclosed
- Grime
- Hello Engineer – Early Access
- Hitman
- Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator
- It Came From Space & Ate Our Brains
- Journey to the Savage Planet
- Kemono Heroes
- Killer Queen Black
- Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
- Little Big Workshop
- Moonlighter
- MotoGP 20th
- Orcs Must Die! 3
- PixelJunk Raiders
- PUBG
- Republique
- Saints Row: Re-Elected
- Shantae: Riskys Revenge ( New since January 1st )
- Submerged: Hidden Depths
- Sundered: Eldritch Edition
- Terraria
- The Darkside Detective
- The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark ( New since January 1st )
- The Falconeer: Warrio Edition
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
- TRANSFORMERS: BATTLEGROUNDS
- Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
- Unto The End
- Wave break
- Wreckfest
- Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA
Build up a large database!
The Stadia pricing model stipulates that every user has permanent access to a game that has been purchased once – this also applies to the free titles. So if you buy one of these 45 free games for 0 euros, they will be added to your game library and are permanently available. Every player is well advised to simply buy all the games and thus secure them for the long term, even if some titles may not seem that interesting at the moment – tastes and preferences can change. And thanks to the ability to share the games with the family, there are more possibilities.
If you already have a Pro subscription, take this opportunity and keep adding new games. As soon as Google ends the promotion, you would otherwise have to pay the full price for the title again. Should Stadia one day establish itself and catch up with the big ones, which is Google’s long-term goal, there will certainly not be such generous promotions as often and on this scale. And maybe some of the titles will turn into a classic that you secured back then and can later play for free.
Caution: Only applies to active pro subscriptions
All titles purchased for 0 euros are only available with an active Stadia Pro subscription and CANNOT be played with a base subscription. The base subscription only provides access to the titles that have actually been purchased for an amount over 0.