PS Plus Essential December 2024 games reveal date and predictions – including the gorgeous Jusant
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PS Plus is set to return in the New Year with a good dollop of games – and we're expecting that January 2025's drop will come with a beautiful and meditative climbing experience. A new year of games is upon us, and PlayStation seems willing to deliver massively for its very first drop of free games in 2025. PS Plus needs to sweeten the pot somehow for players paying for the chance to play their games online, and to deliver three free titles to keep forever providing players stay subscribed is a pretty good way to do it. The monthly PS Plus Essential games came to a head this year with its December Essential 2024 drop, delivering unto players Game of the Year Award winner It Takes Two and Xbox Game Pass double-dipper Aliens: Dark Descent along with a heap of PS Plus surprise bonuses like a Space Marine 2 game trial.
We look to the New Year now, and though we know that a delivery of free games is coming, we don’t know exactly what to expect. Luckily, we have a means of estimating what games could be appearing in the next PS Plus Essential drop that could offer some insight.
The best way to check what games are coming in any given PS Plus drop is to look at the games that were launched at this time last year, check their PlayStation release dates, add a year onto those dates, and see which games were released around that time. The PS Plus January 2024 Essential games were A Plague Tale: Requiem, Nobody Saves the World and Evil West, and with Requiem’s October 2022 release, it seems that this month in 2023 is a good place to look for the new headliner for January 2025’s PS Plus Essential drop. With this in mind, we could be lucky enough to see the arrival of Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Alan Wake 2 or Jusant this month. The latter is perhaps the most likely, as it wouldn’t demand the hefty negotiations with AAA juggernauts Ubisoft or Remedy Games, even though the big titles become more likely with each passing day due to distance from their respective release dates.
