Mad Max, Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera added to Origin Access

I remember when EA's Origin Access subscription service—a bit like a Netflix for PC gaming—only let you play around 40 games, but now it offers just shy of 100 after adding eight new ones this week, including Mad Max, Pillars of Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera.

EA opened up the service to other publishers last month, and it's added lots of impressive games since, from the first three Arkham games to The Witness. Regardless of what you think of EA as a publisher, it's becoming harder and harder to argue with the price tag of $5/£4 a month, or $30/£20 for the whole year, given the quality of the games that it gives you access to. You can browse the full list here.

The eight new games are:

Prison Architect
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (from the developers of A Way Out)
Virginia, the first-person narrative game inspired by Twin Peaks
Ember, another isometric RPG
Spore (God, remember that?)
Mad Max
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Torment: Tides of Numenera

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is another standout—it's a relatively simple puzzle game with a masterfully-told story. Here are Tom's thoughts from when it came out back in 2013.

If you want to sign up, you can do that here. Then, you just boot up Origin, navigate to the Origin Access section and add the games to your library in one click. Make sure you go through the full list, because you'll find things that you probably wanted to play at one time and then forgot about. Out of the Park Baseball 19, for example, was added in the last batch of games, and I picked it up just because I'd always been curious. Now, I'm hooked.

What other games would you like to see offered on Origin Access?

Correction: I originally stated that games you added from Origin Access would stay in your library permanently, even if you unsubscribed, which is not true.

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.