[UPDATE: While Sony has yet to confirm the PS Plus free games for December 2021, they have leaked online. According to Dealabs, a source that has been accurate several times in the past, the PS Plus free games are Godfall, Mortal Shell, and LEGO DC Super-Villains. Thus, this rumored prediction seems much less likely now, although fans should still await official confirmation.]
The past few months have seen the PS Plus monthly line-up leak beforehand, though a time or two fans have been able to correctly predict them as well. It remains to be seen what every title with the PS Plus free games for December 2021 is, but fans think they’ve figured one of them out: Heavenly Bodies.
PS Plus follows several patterns that can sometimes be hard to track, but the past few months have nailed one down on PS Plus free games. First, it has to be released on the same Tuesday as the PS Plus free games release, which is December 7. This is indeed Heavenly Bodies’ release date. Secondly, nor can it be pre-ordered, and Heavenly Bodies can’t be. There are a few other odds and ends, but needless to say, there’s a good chance Heavenly Bodies is one of the PS4/PS5 games. This poses the question: what is Heavenly Bodies?
PS Plus Free Game for December 2021? – Heavenly Bodies
In short, Heavenly Bodies describes itself as a “game about cosmonauts, the body, and the absence of gravity.” It’s a physics game coming to PC, PS4, and PS5, where players must navigate their hands and arms to pull, push, and twist themselves around the maps, all of which are based on space engineering. Overall, players will be completing tasks like constructing telescopes, performing maintenance on solar arrays, or conducting research on cosmic botany.
Players then also control every limb of their weightless cosmonaut, with various actions being important to Heavenly Bodies’ gameplay: general arm movements, leg grabbing, lever usage, kicking, pulling wire, pushing, seat and claw, twirling, and more. Players have been shown in various locations like a cupola, engine, satellite, storage room, tower, and tunnel, all befitting a stylized 70s visual aesthetic. There’ even space vehicles that can be manipulated, while elaborate machinery may serve as more than just a backdrop.
From the sounds of it, Heavenly Bodies can get wild, but players don’t have to do it alone. Heavenly Bodies supports local, couch co-op like many other physics games like it such as Human Fall Flat. Notably, though, this wild gameplay is inspired by features of real space explorers and researchers through history.
Finally, it’s worth noting that, on the PC version, it has rebindable controls to make the gameplay a little simpler. The developer does not, however, that this is not the intended way to play Heavenly Bodies. There’s also a customizable control mode difficulty. Overall, it remains to be seen how the game is received on PS Plus, but there’s no doubt an audience for silly physics games like this.
PS Plus subscribers get a handful of free games every month.