February's First PlayStation Plus Essential Title Has Leaked, and It Looks Meh

The first PlayStation Plus Essential game for February has just leaked, and I’m already not feeling too excited about what the rest of the line-up will look like if this is next month’s “flagship” title.

The next PlayStation Plus Essential title we have to look forward to has been all but confirmed, because the most reliable leaker of the modern age has just revealed what the first free game in February will be.

Bit of context before we jump into this: this leak comes from the one, the only, the grand champ of PS Plus-related leaks, billbil-kun.

If you’re unfamiliar with billbil-kun’s track record, let me tell you, this dude doesn’t miss.

I think they’ve gotten every single one of Sony’s PlayStation Plus Essential line-ups correct since they first emerged on the scene, so this is as close to an official confirmation other than… well, an official confirmation.

Anyway, enough lollygagging. According to billbil-kun’s latest post on Dealabs, the “flagship” PlayStation Plus Essential game will be… developer Steel City Interactive's and publisher Deep Silver's 2024 boxing game Undisputed. And the crowd goes mild.

An extremely underwhelming official Undisputed promo image, Deep Silver

Look, I’ll be honest with you; I haven’t played this one. However, there’s a pretty good reason for that.

According to basically everyone who was unfortunate enough to review this one, it’s apparently very, very mid. Generally, great games don’t end up getting a 37% Critics Recommend score on OpenCritic. Just sayin’.

Also, the worst part of this is that billbil-kun refers to it as February’s “flagship” title. Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that next month’s PS Plus line-up is a complete write-off, because Sony could end up sneaking a couple of smaller indie bangers in there, but let’s be real… it’s not exactly a good sign of what’s to come, is it?

Of course, there’s always the chance that critics were wrong about Undisputed, and it’s actually secretly a banger. Always possible.

Uh, however, not to be a party pooper or anything, but general audiences didn’t seem too impressed with this one either. I’m basing that off the “Mixed” score that Undisputed has on Steam and, funnily enough, the 2.57 out of 5-star rating that the game has on the PlayStation Store.

Jeez, I hope Sony didn’t shell out a lot of cash to get the rights to this one.

Kind of a shame overall, because it was starting to feel like Sony had locked in towards the end of 2025, because there were some absolutely bangers towards the end of the year. I guess we can only hope that March looks a hell of a lot better than this.