A new month is nearly here, and as has been tradition for years now, PlayStation has announced the new PlayStation Plus games that will soon be available to subscribers. This time around, subscribers will get two very different kinds of soulslike games: Nine Souls and Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. Also, users get an EA soccer game. Is soccer a soulslike? Can I stretch that far and claim all three are soulslike experiences in the headline? Not sure. Editor, let me know and then remove all of this, okay? Cool.
On April 29, PlayStation revealed April’s monthly games, which will be available to all PS Plus subscribers across all tiers. These games will be available to add to your PlayStation library permanently starting on May 5. Once added, you can install them and play them whenever you want as long as you remain an active PS Plus Essential, Extra, or Premium subscriber. Here’s the list of games and what platforms they’re available on.
- EA Sports FC 26 – PS5, PS4
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – PS5
- Nine Sols – PS5, PS4
You don’t want to wait too long to grab these PS Plus monthly games, as they are only available until next month. Specifically when isn’t clear. Unlike usual, Sony didn’t include a date for when they will leave this time around in the post announcing the new games. Strange! Anyway, as always, a new batch of not-yet-announced games will be made available to subscribers in June.
I’ve not touched any of these games, but luckily Kotaku‘s own Rebekah Valentine has played Nine Sols, and here’s why she thinks you should check it out next week:
Really lovely art and music, genuinely compelling story that had me in tears by the end, and the feel of it is just so, so tight. Great controls, exactly the right amount of complexity dripped out at an excellent pace. Fights that are difficult but fair, but also with slider difficulty so people can modulate their challenge. This is the game that taught me to love parrying and to understand what it is that makes people so excited about well-made action games. It also cemented me as a souls-like fan, because I realized how much I enjoy practicing something again and again, making incremental but noticeable improvement, and then getting the massive rush of finally achieving something.
Don’t forget to add April’s free games to your PlayStation account library before they go away. You have until May 4 to grab Lords of the Fallen, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, and Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream.