Sony has announced PlayStation Plus’s monthly games for August and there’s a lot going on for younger players in this latest bunch.
Five Nights at Freddy’s Security Breach, LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga and Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights are your three games for August 2024.
These are available to all tiers of PlayStation Plus member and, as they are not part of the ongoing Plus Catalogue, you’ll need to claim them before the next lot appear in September.
This is also our opportunity to remind you to claim July 2024’s titles, which include Borderlands 3, Among Us and NHL 24.
The switch over happens on August 6, so get those July games claimed ASAP if you have any interest in playing them.
But what about the new crop of games coming to PlayStation Plus subs?
PlayStation Plus August games
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is both the most highly-rated of them, with an impressive 86 per cent Metacritic score, and the most in need of an explanation.
Unlike the rest, it’s not a super-mainstream release. It’s a 2021 side-scrolling action role-playing game with a dark fantasy theme. You might call it a “metroidvania.” This is the type of game with a bunch of exploration, and where progress is often unlocked through items and abilities you find along the way.
It’s not a particularly easy game to master, but is also not as long as some in this genre, with play time of 12.5-15 hours. There is also more to be had if you dig deep.
LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga is the breeziest of the set. Like other LEGO games, this is an action adventure that re-treads the beats from the Star Wars films, wrapping it all up in a fun collectathon.
There were already multiple LEGO versions of the Star Wars films, starting with 2005’s Lego Star Wars: The Video Game. But this is the 2022 release and features the stories from all nine of the mainline Star Wars films.
Last up is Five Nights at Freddy’s Security Breach, the second most recent Freddy game, from 2021.
You wander around a shopping centre, the Mega PizzaPlex, and have to try to avoid getting caught by the game’s animatronic enemies. Like other entries in the series, this is a horror game intended for a younger audience than most.
This is the worst-reviewed game of the bunch, with a Metacritic score of 64 per cent, but Five Nights at Freddy’s has its fans. And a lot of them.
