The PS Plus games for May 2022 have been officially announced, and, you won't believe it, but the leak was right. Who saw that one coming?!
As per usual, subscribers are getting three games across PS5 and PS4. The selection is as follows...
- FIFA 22 (PS5, PS4)
- Tribes of Midgard (PS5, PS4)
- Curse of the Dead Gods (PS4)
Now, at first glance, this is looking like a pretty good month — but then most of us here at Push Square are big football fans. Indeed, the inclusion of a sports title — as the headline act, no less — is bound to rub some people the wrong way.
But hey, at least Tribes of Midgard and Curse of the Dead Gods are quite highly rated. The former is an addictive, co-op enabled action RPG with some survival elements thrown in. Sony even promoted Tribes quite heavily before it released. The latter, meanwhile, is very comparable to something like Hades — a stylised action title that hinges on dungeon crawling mechanics.
We thought EA Sports' soccer sim was a return to form in our FIFA 22 PS5 review: "FIFA 22 feels like real football, and it’s all the better for it. Impressive improvements to player positioning, ball physics, and animations make for a supremely satisfying simulation that underpins each of the franchise’s flagship modes. Career Mode doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but the ability to create a club is entertaining, and the changes to Player Careers are overdue. Microtransactions still rule supreme in Ultimate Team, and you’ll already have your own personal opinions on that, but there’s so much to do in this year’s release that you could easily invest hundreds of hours into it without seeing a single loot box."
Meanwhile, we tagged our Curse of the Dead Gods PS4 review with a respectable 7/10: "If you want a dungeon crawler with satisfying gameplay and some unique ideas, this is far from a curse."
All three games will be available to download from next Tuesday, the 3rd May.
What are your first impressions of next month's PS Plus games? Give us an honest reaction in the comments section below, and don't forget you can find a list of All PS Plus Games through the link.
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Won’t FIFA be on EA Play any week now?
Some gamers "I would never play a FIFA game even for free."
Also those same gamers "FIFA 22 is available for plus? Sweet. I am definitely playing it."
Here before the comment section loses it. Meh is how I'd sum up most Plus months right now. Hoping from June with the new Plus subscriber it gets better because we all just dread it now lol
And Sony need to find their leaker this is like the 8th time
It'd be funny if Sony just leaked June's line up a week early just to mess with them
Solid month. I'll definitely gonna check Tribes of Asgard and Curse of the Dead. Unfortunately, I'm not into soccer that much, so I'll skip FIFA.
Man perspective is a funny thing. This is a pretty bad month for me—another by the numbers EA sports game and two indie games that, while good, are very similar to other titles (Hades and Valheim). Last month was really good I thought tho—A remake of a classic and a really good and unique indie title. However, people were visceral against the lineup last month while people were pretty mild in reaction to the leaks. Idk, EA is cringe.
Yes!!! Delighted with FIFA 22!!! 😀😀😀
Cue the usual moaning and “I hate football” comments but one very happy PS5 owner here!
@avatarian Nah, still not gonna touch it.
It’s a solid selection for a lot of people I think, but for me there’s nothing.
The last month before the upgraded PS Plus. Not bad.
Soccer/shoeball instead of knack 2...lame.
@Hamst88 make that 2, very pleased with this 👍
I used to play FUT for years and spend up to 800 hours per year in the mode, year to year ever since FIFA 15. ...But I didn't buy fifa 22 for the first time since FIFA 14.
I was spending more time collecting cards and trading to build multimillion coin teams rather than actually enjoy playing it. So leaving fifa behind is one of the best choices I have did for my well being and while it's cool to get fifa 22 for free, it's already may. May in FUT means pretty much dead playerbase and I can't see myself playing any other mode in fifa.
I rather would have taken NBA 2k22, because NBA is another game that I stopped buying every year, but I stopped doing that long ago, so my last game was NBA 2k19 and I would love to have current gen NBA game.
Indie games look cool, however. Probably won't bother trying them out, despite the tribes of Midgard being in my wishlist, I do not have 7 friends to play game with.
That's the only way I'll ever play a FIFA. I'll pay £0 for it and that's how much EA deserves.
Overall a good selection. Interested in trying out Tribes of Midgard!
With FIFA being added, I wonder if just like Game Pass Ultimate we'll see PS Plus Premium get EA Play and this is a teaser.
Seibu Cup Soccer was the last soccer game I played. How does fifa 22 stack up to that one?
@Relygon lol. Same here. Now we can say "not playing FIFA even as a gift". Even worse, checking pushsquare's review it mentions microtransactions and that is definitely something I don't want anything to do with.
@Kairu who would be your forward? Sammy Barker, Liam Croft, or Jamie O'Neill?
I’ve never actually played a soccer/football game before. I have many friends tell me they a super fun. So I’ll give FIFA a go. Not sure about the other two.
So a rogue like, a survival and a sports game. Really Solid.
None of these appeal to me. Currently playing Elden Ring on my first play through to get platinum.
No interest in FIFA myself, but a solid month all round I think
This month is good,I haven't played any of them and looking forward to playing all 3 games and certainly didn't expect fifa 22 a big surprise ,I'll find out if its any good next wk ,it'll be interesting to see If fifa22 is the ps4 or ps5 version or both depending on which console you have:)
Curse of the dead gods is definitely the one im mostly interested in.it looks amazing.and fifa 22.i would download it also.but im playing curse of the dead gods first.word up son
FIFA 22 - 78 on Metacritic
Tribes of Midgard - 71
Curse of the Dead Gods - 79
Too much to play right now, but Curse looks up my street
@vyseofhr yes June or July, the pattern seems to be with ps plus they take games from PS Now and EA Play going to PS Plus too which doesn't make much sense apart from the fact some people don't sub to them but still I think PS Plus should give games that haven't been offered anywhere but I guess that's the point of Plus it's for the online side and the games are just a bonus.
Football, football football football!!! Get the ball, score a goallll!
Amazing, a game that's out of date in few weeks as season ends , as EA hoping some few extra suckers will buy some micro transactions.
Rubbish month in my opinion but hey ho, can't remember last really good one
Probably one of its worse months. Oh well.
Im sure fifa is great for some, but I absolutely would never play it. I have a problem with EA, dont like to play footy, and have awful memories of the fifa code from having worked with it.
I dont know about the other two titles, but im not blown away!
Good job ive more games than I can play anyway....
@Titntin One of my high school teachers’ mate was the guy in charge of shadows on the FIFA games. Such a seemingly insignificant job but it makes all the difference!
Personally, I have virtually no interest in FIFA, so this is a pretty lousy month for me.
Not feeling the games this month. Stoked for those that are. Here's hoping I get swept off my feet in June.
@nessisonett
It certainly does make the difference! . One of my programmer freinds whilst I was in intelligent games did the lighting and stadiums for fifa circa 2002. The fifa code I worked with was such a mess, it still had sega game gear code in it. Any attempts to remove it meant the stupidly long animation import process, (involving three authoring programs), just wouldnt work. I think they rewrote the engine soon after, it needed it! I left then anyway, i joined Bullfrog to do dungeon keeper 2, when ea cancelled DK3 and put me on a footy game, I was out of there!
Brilliant month. FIFA 22 will make 50M Plus subscribers very happy
@Titntin brilliant insights and the golden age of video games
Is Fifa a bit like Rocket League, but with people instead of cars?? I'm not sure this 'football' thing will catch on
Wonder how that’ll work with EA Access? When PS gave away the Star Wars Squadrons game, it kept telling me that it was the 10 hour trial, not that I owned the game.
The ARPG & action game might be interesting, but as far as I'm concerned, annual sports games are what's left in the discount bin after all of the even-slightly-appealing games have been sold.
@avatarian i played fifa 18 and loved it. dont know why people hate fifa so much
@placekicker if i buy ea access, can i play all the games that were made by ea for free? for example, the sims has an ea play icon and gives you the option to buy it. If i had bout it, would i be able to get the sims and other games like that for free?
Typical month for me - no interest in what they're offering. But to each their own for sure.
Don't own ANY of these so adding them to my backlog is always nice.
FIFA game? Why not ?
Last time I tried was a very old one I got second hand.
Rub people the wrong way? Why? Your weird Push. 🧐
Well that's 💩 an annual sports game that will be irrelevant in a few months when the shiny new one comes out
Stoked to get FIFA 22 - I love football, but had no intention of paying cold, hard cash for this. The other two games look pretty cool, just not really my bag. A better month than most, in my opinion
@Chicken_Boy_1781 Most of them. They have a list of what’s available. Plus, new games have a ten hour free trial.
98% of anyone who wanted to play fifa 22 bought it. The only people winning are the ones who resisted paying twice for the ps5 version, and even they are losing as they can’t swap saves. I was so frustrated at how poorly the PS4 version played I paid twice - like a fool. Ea hasn’t made this game anything that should be available. It’s got day one bugs still, crap graphics relatively speaking, and the scripting (which definitely exists) is absurd. The only thing this game represents is a way for EA to get kids to gamble and operate as a casino. I CANT WAIT to not buy fifa next year and go to efootball now that it’s had such a massive update. Ea is the worst and song is a joke for making this a title.
Absolute tripe from Sony as usual.
@Grumblevolcano ea play isn’t worth it at all…majority of the games are older than grey hair.
In the past 6 month,iv downloaded only 1 game..Deep Rock Galactic.every other has been trash imo.if I didn’t have a yearly sub,I’d of cancelled it
I'm not much for FIFA and Curse of the Dead Gods is on Switch, but Tribes of Midgard [still] isn't and promises a peculiar blend of inspirations from Diablo and Don't Starve which coincidentally might paint decent odds of adequate Vita controls. Don't mind if I do!
I'll claim Tribes of Midgard since Ubisoft, but no interest in the other two games.
pS plus games this month: FIFA and two trash no one will even install
Doesn't appeal to me personally, but at least it's three games for people who haven't upgraded and not making the third game PS5-only even though it's a multiplatform title.
@Would_you_kindly nah this is the best time to get a fifa..it takes them this long to make the game actually play like its meant to and i'll usually buy the most recent fifa when it hits a tenner or less in a sale..this is a bonus for free and its the first month in ages where all 3 games are actually appealing to me..good month for me..👍
Lame! But this is expected now, PS Plus has been crap for a long time now.
At this point I'm probably just subbing for PS5 save back up. As I stated in the previous post on this news, I wish we could pick from a selection, or be given a set game and pick our second one.
Already have FIFA, not interested in the other two.
No interest for a third month in a row. Still wrapped up in Elden ring so no biggie and will be keeping my sub for now but hopefully there’ll be something more to my interests eventually
@vyseofhr Yeah, any day now. Bit of a strange one to include.
Another useless selection of games, for me at least.
Hasn't been a good month in a long time.
Fifa aside its a pretty decent month if nothing special.
Fking total joke. I pay for games not fraudulent hooliganism creating crap. Football is an STD, a bunch of overpaid dossers who do absolutely nothing and get paid way over the dole limit they deserve, for it. Give them a pound a week, give their money to soldiers NHS and Fire Brigade who actually deserve the money
With the new tier system, I hope we still get the opportunity to complain how bad the free monthly games are 😂
FIFA 22 is entirely unappealing to me and will not even be added to my library. What a waste of a months subscription cost.
@Resi32
(Perhaps unfortunately) people do not get paid for the good they do society, but rather the monetary value and scarcity of their skill set. Like it or not, elite athletes will always get paid huge amounts for as long as so many pay to watch them because, by definition, very few in the world have their skills.
Plus, In honestly, like musicians and actors etc, at least they bring people happiness. If you want to rail against anything, let it be all those getting paid hugely in financial services.
lol what a joke for EA. Their flagship products Battlefield and Fifa crashed and burned this year.
I like fifa, there, I said it. I also like madden, nba 2k, nhl 2k, and golf games. That being said, that’s a lot of sports games and I save a lot by not staying current often 3+ years behind. I’m just peachy getting any sports games on 2k because they are probably newer than my versions.
The best month this year, by a mile.
Tribes and curse, not heard of them before but happy to give them a go. As for FIFA I know some people like it, but it's not for me, and I like football. Not played a FIFA game since FIFA 11, and soon got bored, another year and FIFA 22 will be in the bargain bucket for a pound, cex can't give old FIFA games away.
I prefer madden games, but even them I stopped at 08, still play 06 though to this day, best one IMO.
@Would_you_kindly totally agree, all FIFA games are not long before they're bargain bin fodder.
@MagicMonkeyBoy lmao 🤣🤣🤣
@Orca58 yeah pretty much as soon as the new ones out you'll be able to get a pre owned copy from the bargain bin for like 1.99 & it gets delisted from the digital stores so you can only buy the full priced new one that's the same as the last one lol
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