January 2025 Shows PS Plus Essential Failing to Live Up to Its Name
gamerant
Sun, Jan 12, 2025
January 2025's PS Plus Essential lineup is here, offering all subscribers to the service, no matter the tier, a small selection of PS4 and PS5 games. Every month, new games are added to PS Plus via its Essential tier, allowing subscribers to bypass the purchase process and simply download them. Unfortunately, the titles offered in this month's lineup reinforce a downward trend that PS Plus has been following for around the last year. From early 2024 and for almost every passing month since then, the quality and nature of the games offered on PS Plus Essential have become increasingly worrisome. From the service adding games that are already either cheap or free to titles that haven't performed well at all, PS Plus Essential has been failing to live up to its name, and that is especially noticeable when the games offered in the Extra and Premium tiers have maintained a much more positive reputation. Now, January 2025 sees PS Plus Essential bringing another round of highly questionable additions to the service, although it largely has little to do with whether they are worth playing.
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