Something old, something new
The launch date of the revamped PlayStation Plus service is closing in fast. Today, Sony revealed some of the games coming in the launch time frame, spread across the Essential, Extra, and Premium PlayStation Plus plans.
The new plans are set to go live on June 13 for the Americas. They’re split into three tiers: Essential, Extra, and Premium. Essential comes in at $60 a year, while Extra goes up to $100 a year and Premium sits at $120 annually.
With Essential, the regular PS Plus benefits will still keep rolling out. Most significantly, that means the lineup of monthly games. An upgrade to Extra or Premium, however, starts to open up the broader catalog of games, both recent and not-so-recent.
For both Extra and Premium, subscribers get a catalog of PlayStation 4 and PS5 games to play. These seem similar to the PlayStation Plus Collection that rolled out with the PS5’s launch. There’s a pretty decent list of PlayStation Studios games, as well as some third-party entries.
Bringing back classics
On the Premium side, the highest-tier subscribers also get some of the classics. Some will have better resolutions and frame rates compared to their original versions, or arrive as the remastered versions. Several PS2 games are the PS4 remastered versions, for example. PlayStation 3 games are also available, via streaming.
One note in particular stuck out: “Also, players who have previously purchased the digital version of select games from the original PlayStation and PSP generation will not have to make a separate purchase or sign up to PlayStation Plus to play these titles on PS4 or PS5.” So if you’ve bought these before, they’re back up now for no additional cost. Once they’re released, owners can head to the PlayStation Store and download a version for no additional cost.
Lastly, Sony also spotlighted some of the time-limited game trials coming to PlayStation Plus Premium owners. For now, it’s a short list: Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, Horizon Forbidden West, Cyberpunk 2077, Farming Simulator 22, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and WWE 2K22. It’s expected to sit at about two hours for most games, and time will only count down when you’re in-game.
A monthly refresh is locked in too. For all PlayStation Plus owners, that includes the monthly game lineup that we’ve always had. An additional refresh will occur midway through each month with new games for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium plans too, though the number of games will vary.
Check out the full lineup for each plan below:
PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Games (Extra, Premium)
- Alienation (PS4)
- Bloodborne (PS4)
- Concrete Genie (PS4)
- Days Gone (PS4)
- Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition (PS4)
- Death Stranding and Death Stranding Director’s Cut (PS4/Ps5)
- Demon’s Souls (PS5)
- Destruction AllStars (PS5)
- Everybody’s Golf (PS4)
- Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (PS4/PS5)
- God of War (PS4)
- Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)
- Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4)
- Infamous First Light (PS4)
- Infamous Second Son (PS4)
- Knack (PS4)
- LittleBigPlanet 3 (PS4)
- LocoRoco Remastered (PS4)
- LocoRoco 2 Remastered (PS4)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4)
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS4/PS5)
- Matterfall (PS4)
- MediEvil (PS4)
- Patapon Remastered (PS4)
- Patapon 2 Remastered (PS4)
- Resogun (Ps4)
- Returnal (PS5)
- Shadow of the Colossus (PS4)
- Tearaway Unfolded (PS4)
- The Last Guardian (PS4)
- The Last of Us Remastered (Ps4)
- The Last of Us: Left Behind (PS4)
- Until Dawn (PS4)
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (PS4)
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (PS4)
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
- WipEout Omega Collection (PS4)
- Ashen (PS4)
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (PS4, PS5)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4)
- Celeste (PS4)
- Cities: Skylines (PS4)
- Control: Ultimate Edition (PS4, PS5)
- Dead Cells (PS4)
- Far Cry 3 Remaster (PS4)
- Far Cry 4 (PS4)
- Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition (PS4)
- For Honor (PS4)
- Hollow Knight (PS4)
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (PS4, PS5)
- Mortal Kombat 11 (PS4, PS5)
- Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 (PS4)
- NBA 2K22 (PS4, PS5)
- Outer Wilds (PS4)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4)
- Resident Evil (PS4)
- Soulcalibur VI (PS4)
- South Park: The Fractured but Whole (PS4)
- The Artful Escape (PS4, PS5)
- The Crew 2 (PS4)
- Tom Clancy’s The Division (PS4)
PlayStation Classics (Premium)
PlayStation 1 and PlayStation Portable
- Ape Escape
- Hot Shots Golf
- I.Q. Intelligent Qube
- Jumping Flash!
- Syphon Filter
- Super Stardust Portable
- Mr. Driller
- Tekken 2
- Worms World Party
- Worms Armageddon
PlayStation Classic Remasters
- Ape Escape 2
- Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Stars
- Dark Cloud
- Dark Cloud 2
- FantaVision
- Hot Shots Tennis
- Jak II
- Jak 3
- Jak X: Combat Racing
- Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
- Rogue Galaxy
- Siren
- Wild Arms 3
- Bioshock Remastered
- Borderlands The Handsome Collection
- Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning
- Lego Harry Potter Collection
PlayStation 3 Games (via streaming)
- Crash Commando
- Demon’s Souls
- echochrome
- Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds
- Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational
- Ico
- Infamous
- Infamous 2
- Infamous: Festival of Blood
- LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
- MotorStorm Apocalypse
- MotorStorm RC
- Puppeteer
- rain
- Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty
- Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
- Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus
- Resistance 3
- Super Stardust HD
- Tokyo Jungle
- When Vikings Attack
- Asura’s Wrath
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
- Devil May Cry HD Collection
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
- F.E.A.R.
- Lost Planet 2
- Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
- Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
