If you’ve been a PlayStation Plus subscriber since it launched exactly 10 years ago, then you’ll have been able to add over 1,000 games to your library over the course of the decade. The statistic comes courtesy of a Sony infographic designed to celebrate the service’s 10th anniversary, which we’ve embedded below:
The platform holder will be including everything that’s ever been added to the subscription, so this figure is naturally padded by the PS Minis and PSone Classics which dominated the service in its early days. Nevertheless, you can see a full list of all free PS Plus games in 2020, as well as July 2020’s free PS Plus games through the respective links.
What have been your favourite free PS Plus games over the past decade? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Wow. Those 10 years have gone fast.
"PS Plus Has Given Out Over 1,000 Free Games Since Launching"
"PS Plus Has Rented Out Over 1,000 Games Since Launching"
Fixed it for ya b4 everyone else jumps in.
I know Sony has given out some games for free, infamous and a couple of others after their online was down for weeks way back when, but for the most part they are rentals. And rentals aren't free. If you want to argue they're free since you have to pay for PS+ to play online on PS4, therefore the games are free, well we pay to rent the games on PS4 w/ PS+, we don't game online. We pay for cloud saves too b/c I like having them. I think of it as the online is included when renting the games.
"PS Plus Has Included Over 1,000 Games Since Launching" works too.
We did recently get Lego Ninjago for free, but that was WB, not PS+, if anyone is thinking about it.
Edit after reading the article:
Wow, 64 games the first year when it was only $49.99 and also included themes and avatars. And it was free to play online on PS3, so we were paying for ALL of those games. Now you need to pay to play online and we only get about 24 games a year for $59.99. Somebody tell Shawn Layden I'd prefer to move back to when PS+ gave us all of that for less money.
@rjejr funny, none of my games have gone away from the service. So your renting comment is completely inaccurate.
@MarcG420 When did you stop paying for PS+ that you are still able to play the games? If you are still subscribing then you are still paying to rent them, that's how rentals work, you get to rent it as long as you pay for it. If you are still able to play the games but no longer subscribe to PS+ then you must have stolen them. I can play lots of games for free if I steal them too.
Plus has been a terrific service imo. Have always felt I've gotten my money's worth. Look forward to see what changes they make going into next gen.
10 years at shall we say £45 per year (rough average) means means roughly £450 to date for PS plus with all the games that have been offered in that time seems like a bargain to me especially in the days of getting PS3 & PS4 games. I just wish you could go back and collect the games you missed as I missed out of Bloodborne due to moving house which is probably one of the better offerings.
Difficult to say which are the best but the Uncharted collection, SotC and Bloodborne have to be up there.
Well worth the subscription I say
@rjejr in what world can you go to a rental place and keep renting games without turning the previous ones in?
That is where your entire point completely falls apart bud.
Didn't the free games start as a response to the great PSN hack that took down online services for a couple of months back in the PS3 days?
I vaguely remember Sony offered a choice of a few games such as Infamous and Wipeout, and from there they just kept going when they realised everyone was very pleased with free* games!
And only 3 I didn't already own!
No wonder I can’t keep up!
@MarcG420 He's right though...
@MarcG420 IDK, what world is PS Now in?
I wonder where they are getting 1000 from?
It’s about 650 by my count:
https://playstation.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Plus_games
@Deljo Thanks, I think. Unless someone else is right too. Nice bat.
@rjejr Stretch some more stretch Armstrong 🤣🤣
@rjejr so tired of all the wanabe edgy people. Like just stop with the tired old crap. You don’t like the service or think it’s something other than what it is? Good for you! You have the reasoning of twelve year olds the world over.
@rjejr Was agreeing with you bud😀 Of course we're only renting the games on plus, like you say stop subscribing and they're gone...
@rjejr again with this BS. Everyone understands what "free" means in this context. You don't need to be that guy.
@Futureshark Not really. Pushsquare made a nice video explaining how it all came to be. You may wanna watch it.
"Free" is when you do not have to pay for something and keep it. The moment you stop paying for PS+, you stop having access to those "free" games. Which in turn you lose the "free" term on it.
Call it BS or whatever you wish, but the main fact remains, calling it "free" is misleading in the end. It is a digital rental that is tied in with online access. It is only ever "free" if you still get to keep it while not paying for it anymore.
@naruball he clearly needs to appear edgy for some unknown reason.
I think i joined in the middle of 2012, took me ages to realise you could add the games to your library by starting the download and cancelling it.
I wonder how many «free» movies I’ve been given by Netflix during the same period.
I think I have played F1 2019 and Monster Hunter World (just during Corona) more than any of the Free games combined.
PS+ is for me to play online. Nice to get free extras, I guess.
Explain how they are free when we pay a subscription?
@MarcG420 some people just can't help seeing the glass half - empty.
@RIGORR_MORTIS it's what "free" means these days. And interestingly, Sony doesn't call them free games, rather games offered which seems more accurate.
@VeldinX They count the separate versions as different games.
So even though Uncharted 3 is one game, because it was both on PS3 and PS4...etc you get the gist.
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