Sony has announced the games coming to the PlayStation Plus catalogue this month, and they include the latest Prince of Persia game, worth £34.99 alone.
This month’s collection of games will be available from March 18 and can be accessed by subscribers at the Extra and Premium tiers of PlayStation Plus.
If you only have PlayStation Plus Essential, you can find out about the monthly games instead, which we wrote about late last month.
Read more at our gaming site.
With that out of the way, here are the 12 PlayStation Plus catalogue games being added this month:
- Arcade Paradise
- Bang-On Balls: Chronicles
- Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions
- Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation Code Fairy
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Syberia – The World Before
- UFC 5 (PS5 only)
- You Suck at Parking
These additional games will only be accessible to PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers, as either retro or VR titles:
- Arcade Paradise VR
- Armored Core
- Armored Core: Project Phantasma
- Armored Core: Master of Arena
PlayStation Plus March games
The most notable addition this month is clearly Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. While it was not a huge success, compared to publisher Ubisoft’s expectations — leading to the disbanding of the team that made the game — it’s still a corker.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown takes us back to the earliest days of the action-platformer series, switching to 2D-side-scrolling gameplay instead of the full 3D environments of more recent instalments. Not that Prince of Persia has had new games since 2010. And maybe that’s part of the problem.
Still, the strength of its gameplay led to an excellent 86 per cent Metacritic score. Don’t miss out on this one.
Arcade Paradise is also worth a try, and is available in both standard “flat” presentation and in VR, if you have a PSVR2 headset and a Premium subscription.
This one sees you manage a laundrette, in which there’s a mini arcade in the back room. As you make more money from washing and drying clothes, you can buy more arcade machines.
These earn money, too, and you can play them yourself. A key part here is unlocking “real life” goals.
PlayStation Plus Premium players can also unlock a history lesson with three of the classic Armored Core games. This is the other big series from FromSoftware, maker of the Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series.
The original, Project Phantasm and Master of Arena were the three titles released for the original PlayStation, before the series upgraded to the PlayStation 2 in 2000. Are they old and clunky by 2025 standards? Absolutely. But part of the appeal of PlayStation Plus is it lets you try out these curios without needing to invest too much time or money.
