PS Plus Essential will present the new games for October 2024 in a few days. MeinMMO summarizes all known information and explains which games could be in the free bundle in October 2024. One title is already known.
What is the schedule?
Below you’ll find speculation from the community about which games might go live on October 1, 2024. Until then, remember to add the current PS Plus games to your library.
PS Plus Essential: All games that could come in October 2024
What games are there? In general, it can be said that Sony often puts together a bundle of one strong title and two weaker games for PS Plus. Currently (as of September 23, 2024) there is also no title that Sony has previously presented as a “PS Plus” game. For September 2024, this was the case with Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, for example.
Atomic Heart
On Reddit, the shooter Atomic Heart is also one of the community’s strongest candidates for October 2024. Many assume that the dystopian first-person shooter could be available for free via PS Plus Essential next month. In Atomic Heart, the robots that were previously supposed to live in harmony with humanity run amok.
With PS Plus Premium you can try the game for free for 2 hours.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
One of the biggest flops of the year also appears in the discussions surrounding PS Plus: Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Financially, Suicide Squad was a huge loss for the developers and reportedly cost Warner Bros. millions.
Some are therefore speculating on Reddit that Warner Bros. might make a deal with Sony for PS Plus so that the game at least gets a chance on the PS5. On Steam, the game is languishing with only 300 players and is more or less considered dead. At least the game has a Season 2 scheduled for July 11, 2024.
With the PS Plus version, Suicide Squad could get another boost in player numbers before Warner Bros. has to write off the game for good.
Dead Island 2
Dead Island 2 is also mentioned by some players. This is partly because Dead Island 2 will receive a large, free DLC in mid-October:
Neighborhood Watch is a horde mode in which you fight for survival with a group of new characters. As a bonus, there is also a “New Game Plus” mode, which is also due to come with Update 6. All good reasons to promote the game for free via PS Plus.
Dead Island 2: The reveal trailer for the new horde mode “Neighborhood Watch”
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A horror game
As we all know, October is also Halloween. Sony likes to combine PS Plus with a suitable horror title in the fall. A year ago, in September 2023, there was Callisto: Protocol with PS Plus.
Many players on reddit and on X currently have “Dark Pictures: The Devil In Me” on their tip list: The game is a survival horror action adventure where you visit a horror castle as a film crew and quickly fight for your survival. The game is considered the finale of “The Dark Pictures Anthology.”
Other options for a horror title in October would be Dead Space, Vampire Survivors or the humorous “Return to Monkey Island.” Or the aforementioned Dead Island 2, which is already considered a hot candidate for October 2024.
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