You can hardly log onto your PlayStation 5 or PS4 these days without seeing a banner for another massive 75 percent off sale. Sony’s latest discount event is pegged to Gamescom 2025, which kicks off next week, and it has some surprisingly decent deals. If you’ve been pining for a hundred hour RPG to whittle away the final days of summer, you’re in luck. A bunch of them are currently 50 percent off.
The current Gamescom sale is running through August 27 and, I’m guessing, will probably be refreshed after the expo gets underway, starting with Geoff Keighley’s Opening Night Live showcase on August 19. In the meantime, here are the best RPG discounts that are currently part of the sale:
- Bloodborne: $10 (50 percent off)
- Persona 5: $10 (50 percent off)
- Monster Hunter Rise: $10 (75 percent off)
- Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers: $8 (60 percent off)
- Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark: $7.50 (75 percent off)
- Valkyria Chronicles 4: $10 (80 percent off)
- Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age: $20 (60 percent off)
- Tales of Arise: $20 (50 percent off)
- Soul Hackers 2: $15 (75 percent off)
- Grandia HD Collection: $20 (50 percent off)
- Dungeon Encounters: $12 (60 percent off)
- Unicorn Overlord: $24 (60 percent off)
- Star Ocean: The Second Story R: $25 (50 percent off)
- Persona 3 Reload: $32 (55 percent off)
- Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance: $27 (55 percent off)
A couple of things to note for those picking through this list. Is Bloodborne really an RPG? It’s primarily an action game, sure, but you also fight things to level up your stats, so obviously yes. It’s an all-timer and deserves to be in everyone’s library, and this is about as cheap as it gets. Personally, I prefer Persona 3 Reload to Persona 5, though the latter is a bit more dense, fully-featured, and less grindy. Final Fantasy XII is one of my favorite late night summer time hangs, and The Zodiac Age remaster is excellent. It’s structured very much like a single-player MMO, so you can mostly just run around exploring the beautiful world and its incredible soundtrack while your party does all the tedious auto-battling.
Then there are some picks that are more borderline. I wasn’t impressed with the Chrono Cross remaster on the whole, but some updates improved things since it released and at $8 it’s a perfectly good way to experience a PS1 classic with modern convenience features. Fell Seal is also a bit of an acquired taste. It’s one of many indie clones of Final Fantasy Tactics floating around out there, but arguably the strongest in terms of its deep, customizable job system and actually challenging combat. And at just $15, Soul Hackers 2 is also a bargain. While not nearly as good as the rest of the Atlus RPGs on this list, there’s plenty of weird, old-school PS2 charm to admire in it. It’s a sequel to 1997’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers and, by God, does it play like it: Archaic, grindy, and repetitive. But if you want a meaty dungeon crawler with unique, stylish vibes, it hits just fine.
