Today's the day for your monthly PS Plus Essential refresh, introducing another three PS5, PS4 titles for subscribers to play. The games are available to download now in the UK and across Europe, and will be live in the USA later in the day. Here's what you've got to play in the June 2024 lineup, with all titles available until 2nd July 2024:
- SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake (PS5, PS4) | Review
- AEW Fight Forever (PS5, PS4) | Review
- Streets of Rage 4 (PS4) | Review
The lineup was confirmed alongside a slew of bonus games for PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium as part of the Days of Play promotion, but when you strip the selection down to purely the PS Plus Essential lineup, PlayStation fans haven't been impressed. In our usual Push Square Poll, the "it's a crap selection" option may have pulled its biggest percentage winner ever. Of more than 5,600 votes, 53 per cent chose the most negative option. Just 12 per cent of responders were happy with what they've been given.
Streets of Rage 4 is the best game you're getting for June 2024, which earned a 7/10 rating in our PS4 review. "Streets of Rage 4 makes a valiant attempt to drag the old-school franchise into the modern age," we concluded. "We've ended up with a beautiful beat-'em-up that's perhaps a little too loyal to the original games, but is ultimately a blast to play, especially with others."
Will you even bother redeeming these games? Let us know in the comments below.
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Already got SoR4 on release.
Still nothing to make me subscribe again.
I typically log in to secure the monthly games no matter what they are, but I can't see myself ever playing any of these.
I have some memories of playing one of the Streets of Rage several years ago, so I might play SoR4 for nostalgia’s sake. And it seems to be a solid couch co-op game, and it’s nice to have a stable of those on hand in case people ever show up who want to play together.
Streets of Rage 4 is so good. Play it!
I'll be trying wrestling, but I strongly recommend streets of rage 4, shame that it didn't sell tons more. We need more beat em ups. Preferably like rockstar the warriors.
My game library has increased by 0 today
@FuriousMachine Streets of Rage 4 is very good though
Can't wait to add these and never play them!
@Aventurier Beat'em ups have never been my kind of game, but I might boot it up out of curiosity sometime.
THQ Nordic paying PSN to put these on as freebies? SoR might get a play..
Streets of Rage 4 is an awesome game
Awful month as per usual
@Steel76 I thought the same - there was no reason to re-subscribe as the games were bad recently, but then I checked the app yesterday and had 25% off for extra and 30% off for premium.
I had premium previously but decided to downgrade for extra but the difference was only £10 so got the premium for 12 months again.
Nothing this month for me ,cant have a banger of a month all the time ,and that's fine by me as I have so much to get through anyway, all gd
May try sor4 at some pt out of curiosity though as it's said to be very gd ,I'll add games to library anyway, really need a section to be able to tell what we've had on essential and the games that are on extra ,they seem to miss the simple things that are really needed
@get2sammyb I missed that Push Square ONLY game Streets of Rage 4 a 7/10, that's the biggest news to me in this story
I used to play wrestling games all the time and honestly got burnt out on them just before WWE 2K20 got released and turned out to be a disaster. Haven't played any new ones since and avoided Fight Forever since it got a lot of negativity not just from gamers but wrestling fans. So I will probably give it a play at some point and will definitely be playing through SoR4 again since I last played it on Gamepass last year so I know I'll love it.
Streets of Rage 4 is superb and SpongeBob is a decent little 3D platformer that is worth playing. I'm not a fan of the cartoon but the game was solid on PS4
Streets of rage 4 for the win.word up son
under the sea... SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS
@themightyant Ooof! It's a bonafide 9. A brilliant sequel, updated just enough but not too much with a fresh art style and once again and most importantly, an incredible original soundtrack.
Usual moaners out in force again. Personally can't wait to play SoR4 and if it wasn't for all these so-called 'rubbish' months, I would never have got to play Cat Quest 1 and 2, Tunic, Dave The Diver and countless others. Bottom line, go in with an open mind and the service is tremendous value for money.
Sweet. Streets of rage was on my wishlist for a while but completely forgot about it. Will definitely give it a go.
I need to add them and start one up to get 75 points on my stars account, looking for the least worst option.
For me personally terrible month, boo
looks like ps sub service is as childish as xbox's
SoR4 is awesome and a super challenging but rewarding platinum if you're into that sorta thing. Personally, I'm pretty stoked to play AEW Fight Forever but I can see how it would mean nothing to a lot of folks.
Been PS+ since it started on PS3. Subbed to extra when Stray came out. Actually letting it expire this month. Usually get a 25% discount this time of year but nope. I think a lot of subs will expire, only giving new customers 30% upgrade option is an insult to loyal customers.
Loved SoR back in the day so definitely gonna try that and almost bought aew for £25 so looking forward to that too. That's better than usual
Nice month, 2 of 3 which I see myself playing, being SpongeBob and SoR4.
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