Since June 2010, PlayStation has offered subscribers to its PlayStation Plus online service program a set of free monthly games each month, which they can then download and play as long as they have an active paid subscription. The games changed from month to month, with titles like Final Fantasy 7 Remake and The Last of Us being the main free titles.
technically speaking, if you pay for a subscription, the games aren't free, but I digress.
Still, regardless, every month since 2010, gamers seemingly everywhere have gone online to complain about whatever is being offered, to the point where some are convinced that the games are getting worse and no better.
So someone decided to put it to the test to see if the vocal online community actually has a point or is just causing drama. It turns out it's never been better for PS Plus subscribers.
The games *might* not be what you want, but they're still quality
Meet OliveOcelot, a gamer who cares a lot about PlayStation. They created a monthly PS Plus game quality video by taking each title's base Metacritic score and then averaging each month's score from that.
They found that the months people complained about weren't actually nearly as bad, and the months some consider the best ever were, statistically speaking, actually among the worst.
For example, in August, when Lies of P came into service, it also met DayZ and My Hero One's Justice 2, which are not very good, critically speaking, lowering the entire average of the month.
Specifically, for 2025, the last three months alone have been in the 80 range on Metacritic, and that's not counting the fact that August is dragging down. In fact, it's the first year since 2022 with more than four plus-80 overall average scoring months. We haven't seen the December offer yet!
The whole video is worth watching as it shows just how good PlayStation fans had it. No wonder people complain just to complain.
