PS Plus continues to offer subscribers ‘free’ games and has even started offering games in recent months PlayStation 5 spell. If you don’t have a still impossible to find PS5, you’re not quite SOL. You just have to claim those games via a web browser.
For $ 10 per month (or $ 60 per year) members can play online games with PS Plus. In addition, subscribers receive monthly games at no extra cost. (These games are only “free” if you stay signed in. If you don’t pay your dues, you will lose access.) The offer isn’t always worth writing home about, but every now and then PS Plus will some real gems. The past few months have given players the opportunity to add such Final Fantasy VII Remake Shadow of the Tomb Raider Greed, and Autumn guys to their PS4 libraries.
Since the launch of the PS5 in November, Sony has also made PS5 games available to PS Plus members. The first was Bugsnax, the crazy puzzle adventure game with edible insects. The derby match will come in February Destruction AllStars– initially planned as a PS5 launch title with a $ 70 price tag – was made available, where you can still claim it through April 6. (Afterwards you can buy it for $ 20.) This month, the miraculous Fashion model, a recursive puzzle game about love and heartbreak, is available on PS5.
The easiest way to get your hands on these titles is through the PS5 itself, as the console’s dashboard has a baked-in PS Plus portal. Just click a few buttons and the game you want will appear in your digital library. If you don’t have a PS5 on which you can, you can claim your games via a browser.
- First go to The Sony landing page for monthly PS Plus games.
- Click on “discover more” for the game you want and you will be taken to the shop page.
- If you’re signed into the store with the same PlayStation account signed up for PS Plus, the price tag must be crossed out. Instead of a “Buy” button, you should see an “Add to Library” icon instead. Click on that.
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When you finally get your hands on a PS5, you’ll see all of your claimed games in the console’s game library.
There’s a little wrinkle with cross-gen games, though. For example, Fashion model is available on PS4 and PS5 (and, yes, PC). If you grab it through PS Plus, you only get the PS5 version. To play it on PS4 you have to buy a copy. When Kotaku has tested this solution with Fashion model, the game didn’t appear in our PS4 library, but we were able to download it on a PS5.
An exclusive PS5 game, like Destruction AllStars, won’t be playable on your PS4 at all, but you already knew that.
It may take a while before you can actually get your hands on a PS5. With this workaround, you can at least get started with a handful of great games.