Sony has today revealed the full lineup of PS5, PS4 games heading to PS Plus Essential for the month of April 2023. All three games will be available for download from Tuesday, 4th April 2023 on the base tier of Sony's premier subscription service. Next month, members can look forward to playing the following:
- Meet Your Maker (PS5, PS4)
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS5, PS4) | Review
- Tails of Iron (PS5, PS4)
Of course, we already knew Meet Your Maker would be part of next month's PS Plus Essential lineup, with confirmation shared a few weeks back. You can think of this one as Super Mario Maker meets DOOM. From the studio behind Dead by Daylight, you'll create your own levels and protect a resource named GenMat. Other real-life players will try to steal it from your base while you try and take it from theirs. We plan to have a PS5 review ready for you soon.
As for Sackboy: A Big Adventure, we all remember it as the charming 3D platformer available at the PS5's launch. With creative levels and a thumping soundtrack to boot, that'll be an enjoyable 10 or so hour experience everyone can enjoy on the base tier of PS Plus. Our PS5 review read: "There’s a lot of love been poured into Sackboy: A Big Adventure, and thus it’s hard not to love it back. This is a brilliant platformer with tons of imaginative ideas and a strong sense of style."
As for Tails of Iron, it's a 2D side-scrolling game where you play as a rat and partake in some particularly tough combat. "As Redgi, heir to the Rat Throne, you must embark on a perilous quest to reclaim your Kingdom. Explore a deceivingly charming world. Assemble a band of brave companions. Banish the merciless Frog clan… once and for all!"
Are you happy with this PS Plus Essential lineup? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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What is Tails of Iron?
Just bought Sackboy in the last big sale 🥲
Meh, Tails of Iron is on sale for very few € all the time (atm again)
Really surprised that sackboy went to essential instead of extra. Great game for anyone who hasn't played it
Knew we'd get Sackboy eventually. 😂
Stoked for Sackboy! I knew it would end up here eventually. Glad I held off buying it.
@DualWielding Seems to be a 2D souls-like similar to Salt & Sanctuary.
Here’s a review: https://youtu.be/I0CkPH60hAI
80 Metacritic
Sackboy is a really fun game, definitely great as a PS Plus addition. Give it a go!
Nothing for me sadly.
I'd just been considering buying Sackboy in the past few days and was going to check if it was on sale at the moment. Glad I held off now 😃
Hard pass. Nothing even remotely interesting or worthwhile this month IMHO. Bit of a letdown. Hopefully the Extra & Premium games are solid.
Sackboy! Nice! Been wanting to give it a try for a while
Looking forward to trying out Meet your maker, could be really good if the building mechanics are fun with lots of options. Though I think I'll enjoy trying to raid other players creations.
Sackboy is a brilliant game, was great playing coop with my son. Its quite funny in places and has a lot of charm. Great addition for those who have never played it.
Sackboy and Meet Your Maker will be great for some couch fun.
Been curious about Tails of Iron for a long time too.
A nice haul.
I did not see this coming! sackboy is finally coming to plus essential! I knew the wait was worthwhile 🙂🙂
Would definitely recommend Sackboy, I can sell my disc copy now. Tails of Iron looked interesting in screenshots then the dreaded words "Souls Like" which has made me lose all interest.
I remember Sackboy as the game I played the first half on my PS4 and the second half with the upgraded PS5 version and I really couldn't tell the difference. 🤷
Sackboy and this rat game sound good to me.
A very good month! Sackboy is imho much better than the average PushSquare 8/10 game. Try it!
@StrickenBiged I wouldn't waste my time with the rest tbh, I can't make what the frick I'm watching while figuring out what game they are on YouTube 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Sackboy is nice! Pretty crazy how fast these games' value drop if they hit PC!
Very satisfied with Sackboy, and being on Essential theres no worries of it ever leaving. Still hoping for Grid Legends pretty soon on Extra maybe this year, has to be?
Making, adventuring, ironing...
Bought Sackboy a while ago now, great fun game playing through with the wee man.
Other two dont interest me too much but it's not like I've not got plenty to play at the minute.
Fab month, for me anyway.
Imo, Sackboy is criminally underrated.
Can't wait to play sack boy, I'm glad I held off on buying it
Worst. Month. Ever. I hope some of you read that in Comic Book Guys voice.
Looks like a pretty reasonable lineup. I already own sackboy and nothing else really exciting for me but seems satisfactory.
@Wheatly it better with people lol
Sackboy is really fun. Also a challenging, yet fun, platinum.
I've been waiting for Sackboy for so long, it feels like it's been 84 years.
Was expecting Sackboy on Extra, but Essential is even better. Win!
Sackboy is a brill multiplayer collect-em-up. Had great fun 100%ing it multiplayer with my son. Just thinking about that "Ripsnorter" still makes me sweat!
Okay, Essential officially sucks. 10 out of 12 months are just terrible. Luckily Extra is amazing so I still get my money’s worth.
Good month imho… I’d never actually buy Sackboy but will probably play it now. Meet Your Maker is real interesting too.
Tails of Iron isn't on sale on my country so I take it.
Finally, Sackboy. Was always waiting for this to finally hit.
Meet Your Maker gives me major Tecmo's Deception vibes from the PS1 days. In a good way.
Almost bought Sackboy several times. Great month for me.
Good month! Sackboy is excellent and Tails Of Iron looks cool. Meet Your Maker is probably not for me but looks interesting too.
Not a bad selection.
Sackboy is a pretty solid game, with a few amazing levels featuring pop music that really deserve to be played and not just watched on YouTube. Thinking about it makes me want to go back and replay those levels (easy enough to do once you've got to them).
And it made solid use of the DualSense on the PS5, if not breathtaking use. Pay attention to how your controller feels as you walk on different surfaces.
Unless you just hate platformers, you should play Sackboy. And it's better with a friend (on the couch).
I reckon this is a better month that it first looks. Sackboy is a great game (and a surprisingly tough yet fun platinum), while I remember being interested in Tails of Iron when it was released.
An ok selection. Can trade in Sackboy now. No interest in the online thing. The 2d souls like is probably fun but have too much to play at the moment. Even on the same subscription, which is kind of the issue when you’re at a point in your life when you’re more time poor than anything else.
I’ve been thinking recently that I’ll likely let my sub lapse unless the add VR2 games as that’s where 90% of my limited gaming time is likely to be moving forwards. It’s not that it’s not great value, just that I need to prioritise games that I really want to play, rather than those that are just great value at such a low cost.
Finally, been waiting for Sackboy for ages.
Yes, my boy has been wanting me to get Sackboy for a while now but I knew it would hit PS plus sooner or later!
I'm thrilled for Tails of Iron.
Getting sackboy is pretty nice
I got a plat for Tails of Iron-a relatively rare event for me. The game is good. It looks great and the combat is challenging but fun (if a bit repetitive by the end). Not much story, but a fun way to pass 10-12 hours.
And, it is narrated by the same actor who plays Geralt if you need a Witcher 3 fix!
Tails of Iron looks like a good time
Both Sackboy and Tails of Iron work for me. Good month.
Sackboy perfect, Tails perfect, Maker dead till the end of month.
Tails of iron im definitely downloading this game.i was always interested in that game.and sckboy looks cool.and meet your maker loiks cool also.word up son
I already have Tails of Iron on Switch and Meet Your Maker sounds exclusively or at least predominantly multiplayer, but I sure welcome more LBP even if most of my acquaintance with it has been the Vita runner and what I've played of the lovable LBP3 before more or less losing access to it (a past IGC item itself, it's tied to my now epicly overpriced Russian PS+ sub, and doubles as one of those like Onrush and Transformers Devastation that I can no longer even purchase on the US account these days). Good to see the April lineup includes the PS4 version.
@Darude84 smells of entitlement.
I was interested in Sackboy when I got my PS5, then I found out it had a Moonlandingz song in it and immediately bought it. Great game. Check it out if you like Lias and the boys!
I'm excited for sackboy
I knew waiting on Sackboy would eventually pay off. It took a while, but I'll definitely be claiming that next month.
Not a good month for me but i hope everybody enjoys sackboy as it seems to be the one everybody wants..enjoy folks 👍
@Shstrick PS Plus users should be given half refunds on games purchased that are Essential picks the following month. That's why I try to buy some of the older PS5 games on disc, so I can sell them on ebay brand new the week before it hits.
Okay.... 7/10 month I guess. I was hoping for Madden or WWE 2k22 as those life spans are just about down... Haven't had a good non-racings sports game since what- FIFA 22?
Super Mario Odyssey looks and play better than Sackboy no? But i'm happy we got it
I’ve been playing Little Big Planet with my seven year old daughter, so Sackboy is a great addition for us.
Meet Your Maker is an interesting concept, but the art-style and Doom-like elements put me off
Wow this is the best month they've had in years!!! Tails of Iron is a great game so I really encourage people to try is if they like games like hollow knight or Salt and Sacrifice.
Hey, at least I can put my physical copy of Sackboy away. And with the recent firmware update, I don’t even need to redownload it!
Oh cool, I've been meaning to try out Sackboy but I didn't exactly want to buy it, this is perfect!
Oh so no knack 2 for the 468th month in a row...cool.
All this hype for Sackboy. I dont think it looks that interesting but I'll try it. I'm more curious about MYM but then again I'm a sucker for 'maker' games.
Very pleased. Will be downloading Sackboy and Tails of Iron.
Seems like quite the good selection! Definitely feels like a very me line up of games and all of them I've been wanting to play for a while now or seem pretty neat
Definitely cancelling my subscription to this as soon on the next auto renew. I originally bought this because there was such a post Covid lack of games, but I don't seem to be having that problem anymore.
@get2sammyb Sackboy is awesome, I would imagine anyone who has a launch ps5 already has it though.
I already own Sackboy: A Big Adventure physically, but will happily redeem the digital copy too.
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