PS Plus Members, This Is Your Last Chance to Claim December's Essential Games

Lineup rotates on 3rd January

by Sammy Barker Mon 2nd Jan 2023

PS Plus PlayStation Plus Essential December 2022 Lineup Last Chance

As of the time of publication, you have less than 24 hours to claim January’s trio of PS Plus Essential games. Remember, once added to your library, these titles will be yours to download and play for as long as you remain a member. For those of you who don’t know, the selection includes Biomutant, Divine Knockout, and Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

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Beginning tomorrow, 3rd January, the trio will be replaced with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Axiom Verge 2, and Fallout 76. Those of you who are subscribed to PS Plus Extra or above will also be able to download WWE 2K22 on PS4 as well. Remember, you can keep track of All PS Plus Games through the link.

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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trev666
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

make sure you add mass effect legendary edition to your library

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brazzios_84
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

@trev666 Just stop playing ME3 once you kill a dude named "Marauder Shields".

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Lup
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

I have Mass Effect since like a year ago so nothing really that good this last month for me.

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playstation1995
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

I already download biomutant and mass effect legendary collection.word up son

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Jmck87
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

Just noticed mine has lapsed 😭 can't see any good deals about?

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sorteddan
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

I wonder how many people downloaded and played Divine Knockout.

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Loftimus
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

@sorteddan i did for five minutes to get my ps stars reward...

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nofriendo
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

I'm still confused about this, and I've been a subscriber for two years now. There's a one-month window to download or "claim" these games, and under the revamped scheme, there is also now a window, though a longer one, to play them after you've claimed them? Do I understand correctly that most games will at some point in the future be removed from the service, at which point, even if you've claimed and downloaded them, you won't be able to play them? Red Dead Redemption II and Slay the Spire were both games on the service, and now they're not, and even though I downloaded both of them, I no longer have access to play them. What's the point of that initial one-month window, then?

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Saucymonk
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

@nofriendo LOL

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MatthewJP
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

@nofriendo if you add any of the three essential games mentioned in the article to your library, they are yours to keep/download/play at any point providing you remain subscribed to PS+.

The games you mention were part of PS+ extra and you do not own them. Think of that like Netflix etc - games come and go from the service.

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nofriendo
Mon 2nd Jan 2023

@MatthewJP Ahhh, thank you, that was never clear to me! So Extra is basically PS Now/Game Pass. But PS Plus is still "a handful of free games every month that you get to keep forever - if you claim them."

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KidRyan
Tue 3rd Jan 2023

I already claimed both Mass Effect and Biomutant, but thanks for the heads up!

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vikramsingh
Tue 3rd Jan 2023

@nofriendo Yup, that's the reason why I feel more comfortable committing my time to playing Fallout76, now that it has been added PS Plus Essentials. It was already on PS Plus Extra, but that's not a permanent thing.