The monthly PS Plus Essential update has arrived, granting all members of Sony's subscription service access to three new PS5, PS4 titles. They're available to download now across the UK and Europe, and availability will spread to the USA later on in the day. Here's what can be redeemed between now and Tuesday, 7th May 2024:
- Immortals of Aveum (PS5) | Review
- Minecraft Legends (PS5, PS4) | Review
- Skul: The Hero Slayer (PS4)
As the standout title of the month, Immortals of Aveum is presented with a second lease of life as it becomes available to all PS Plus subscribers. In our Immortals of Aveum PS5 review, we awarded the game a 6/10 and praised its semi-open world approach, satisfying shooting, and some impressive visuals. Since release last year, the PS5 title has been updated with more endgame content and a New Game+ option.
Minecraft Legends, meanwhile, is designed for the younger audience and turns Minecraft into a strategy game. "It has a lot of heart and can be a good bit of fun, provided your expectations are properly calibrated," our Minecraft Legends PS5 review concluded.
As always, we polled the Push Square audience on its thoughts concerning this new PS Plus update. 45 per cent of you responded by saying "it's a crap selection" for April 2024, with little in the way of overall positivity to share. Immortals of Aveum is the game you want to play most, but the majority of users simply said none of them are very exciting prospects. Do you feel any differently? Let us know in the comments below.
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Just read that Immortals will be getting a patch including HDR and some more stuff in a couple of weeks so it might be worth waiting for that if you plan on playing it
@mac_da_man nice. Thanks for the tip!
When the 'stand out' game is a middling 6/10 it's not a great month.
Not every month has to be a winner, but the quality has declined since the golden years of PS+
Immortals of Aveum is a ton of fun. It’s a seven but it does all it needs to. Well worth the time to play it.
I urge those that haven't played Immortals to give it a shot. Genuinely good game with a novel concept and I'm really enjoying it, and definitely feel it deserved better than it got at launch. Hopefully it can see a bit of success now it's on PS Plus, and HDR will do wonders for the visuals.
@Muttt I wasn’t a PS gamer back then, and I believe you. When, would you say, ended this Golden Age? At the end of 2018, when offline play for PS Now started?
This months games are exactly what I hope with PS Essential because they are titles that piqued my interest but not enough to buy. if I don't like them I've avoided wasting money in future as I would have probably picked them up on a deep sale and with a bit luck I will have fun with them as I find I often do when I played games on Essential that received mediocre review scores.
@Max_the_German there was never really a golden age. I've had it forever and there are maybe 6 a year that I ever play. The only golden I've had is the 12 or so I got when I bought PS5. And I already had most of them.
@Max_the_German my memory isn't good enough to recall, but there was a point when a game had to get a certain metacritic I believe to be listed. That was probably when PS+ and PS Now either didn't exist or was separate.
Of course there were still months when you'd got the games or they weren't your type of game. But the quality was higher. At least in my misty eyes they were! 😁
Immortals of Aveum is actually the first game on consoles getting FSR 3 implementation soon.
Just curious to see how it will turn out to be
@Fatewalker iirc, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora already has it on PS5.
@Fatewalker Do they have an update roadmap? I'm kinda interested..
@zebric21 @dschons I meant the Frame generation component of it, not the upscaler. It will be the first title receiving support for it on console. Came across with this in an article from Eurogamer / DF - https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-immortals-of-aveum-set-to-receive-hdr-and-fsr-3-console-frame-generation
@Muttt No that's just you being a typical miserable person on the internet
@Fatewalker Thanks for the heads up.It was an nice read,also showing that the base consoles never reached their potential, yet they are selling us pro versions again.
@DestructionAllstars ha ha ha thanks. And you are spreading joy 😊 not sure my comment was so harsh as to deserve that. But you be you xx
Immortals of Aveum looks like one of those games that I would never have paid for, but might enjoy when I can try it for free. We'll see.
I think I'll wait a bit, as the developers are promising HDR and frame-generation additions coming in the next few weeks. My TV supports HDR, 120fps, and VRR, so hopefully the upgrade goes well and makes it "better," and I can give it a shot with it looking its best.
Immortals seems pretty good so far, just finished training. Better than I expected.
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