Sony has introduced that it’s bringing eight video games from the (largely) beloved Yakuza sequence to PlayStation Plus all through the remainder of the yr, with the primary hitting the service in August. Be warned, although — in the event you’re subscribed to the bottom PlayStation Plus Important tier, you’ll solely get one of many video games.
The entire thing is kicking off with Yakuza: Like a Dragon (an ideal place to begin for these new to the sequence), which shall be one of many PlayStation Plus month-to-month video games for August. That signifies that you’ll be capable to declare it with any PS Plus subscription — irrespective of which tier you pay for. The opposite month-to-month video games are some heavy hitters, too. There’s Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1 and a couple of, which my colleague Andrew Webster stated “may simply be the proper online game remaster,” and Little Nightmares, a horror sport within the vein of Limbo. Sony’s additionally providing a PlayStation Plus low cost on Rollerdrome, releasing August 16th, which is described as an “intense shooter-skater hybrid set in an evocative retrofuture.”
Additional and Premium subscribers can even be gaining access to Yakuza 0, Yakuza Kiwami, and Yakuza Kiwami 2 in August, because the video games are coming to the Sport Catalog. Sony says that the remasters of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 together with Yakuza 6: The Track of Life shall be out there to Additional and Premium subscribers “later this yr.”
In some methods, this transfer was nearly important for Sony — the Yakuza sequence began out on PlayStation consoles, however for the previous few years, one of the simplest ways to play it has arguably been on Xbox Sport Go or the superb PC ports. Now that Sony has reconfigured PlayStation Plus to be extra aggressive with Microsoft’s service, individuals with PS4s and PS5s (and an Additional or Premium subscription) can even be capable to simply sit down and decide up the sequence.
