Last month, PlayStation's monthly line-up featured titles like PGA Tour 2K23, Dreams and Death’s Door and now the September batch of PS Plus free games are here. The PlayStation Plus Essential games can be downloaded for free by subscribers of any tier of the PS Plus system for a month before the new crop of games arrives. This month's free games come days after the news of a PS Plus price hike of about 33% for 12-month subscriptions, which left users unhappy.
The September pack only has open-world games -- a blow to anyone who doesn't particularly enjoy the genre. The line-up is headlined by Saints Row. September's PS Plus games also include Black Desert: Traveler Edition and Generation Zero. Saints Row was originally released as a reboot of the franchise, by Volition and opened to mixed reviews owing to some technical bugs and mediocre gameplay. The Illinois-based developer recently shut down for good after 30 years and made its closure official on social media. However, the reboot Volition promised the biggest Saints Row playground ever created, with some blockbuster missions.
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Like the original games, Saints Row is set in an open-world environment where players can commit fraud or other crimes to establish Saints as the top gang in town. Volition has recently updated Saints Row with several patches and content drops since its release.
The Black Desert - Traveler Edition is an open-world game in the MMORPG genre and promises some heart-pumping action. The Traveler Edition includes both the base game and add-ons. The story unravels in the Black Stones; while the Calpheonians call this area the Black Desert, the Valencians know it as the Red Desert and both sides are ready to wage a war for it. Players can uncover hidden secrets of the ancient civilisation through the histories of Calpheon and Valencia, customise their armour and learn diverse life skills and more.
Generation Zero, the first-person shooter by Avalanche Studios is set in an alternative, robot-infested 1989 Sweden. The game brings some daunting gameplay in a serene and idyllic countryside. The player takes on the character of a Swedish adolescent who returns to find that the robotic invasion has cleared out the population in his home. He must survive in the Swedish wilderness and come up with a strategy to fight the robots.