With games available on all three tiers of PlayStation Plus (PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra, PlayStation Plus Premium), it seems that Sony hasn’t quite hit the mark with the titles that people are waiting for.

Sometimes Sony throws games into the hat that are able to win over players, and other times the opposite has happened, with few people interested in the titles made available in a given month. As a reminder, the December 2024 games are It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent, and Temtem. It Takes Two is one of the great games of 2021 from Hazelight Studios (Josef Fares), which also won Game of the Year at The Game Awards, but it’s a co-op title. Aliens: Dark Descent is an RTS set in a sci-fi horror universe, while Temtem is a Pokémon-like MMO.

So there’s a lot of genre diversity in the December line-up, but it doesn’t seem to have won over the public. Game Insights reported on this. Compared to November’s PlayStation Plus Essential titles, December’s offerings were down 10.9% in terms of players, with It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent and Temtem recording the weakest results of 2024 so far. The second worst performance was in February (when Foamstars, Rollerdrome, and Steelrising were available to subscribers).

But which month was the most popular this year? We can answer that too: it was October. It was Dead Space Remake, Doc Doc Literature Club Plus and WWE 2K24 on the PlayStation Plus Essential list. Since the wrestling title was less than a year old at the time, perhaps that (or the fact that Sony’s games division has become Americanized…) is why the service achieved such a great result.

What can we expect to see on the PlayStation Plus Essential list in January 2025? We don’t have an answer to that yet, and it won’t happen this year, as the company will do it on January 1st.

Source: GameRant