PlayStation Plus Subscribers Lose Two of December's Essential Games

Some PlayStation Plus subscribers won’t be getting the five games promised for December’s Essential games line-up.

PlayStation Plus tends to offer all subscribers three free games, which are permanent additions to your library so long as you keep your membership. Be warned though, some players recently lost a few of their titles outright through subscriptions to other services.

This month subscribers are in for a treat as the following five games are being given away; LEGO Horizon Adventures, Outlast: Trials, SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada, Killing Floor 3 and Neon White.

The standout addition here has to be LEGO Horizon Adventures. It’s essentially a re-telling of Horizon: Zero Dawn but with all the charm and flair you’d expect from a LEGO game.

It scored quite well with reviewers with GAMINGbible giving it a 7/10, and was a reasonably successful family game.

However I think the majority of potential players didn’t want to pay a premium price for something that likely wouldn’t engage them in the same way the normal Horizon games would. It being free via PlayStation Plus is perfect though, as it is a solid game.

Sony Interactive Entertainment

While it’s not the best line-up we’ve ever seen, December's PlayStation Plus Essential titles are decent, and those two extra games are a welcome surprise.

Unfortunately though there are some subscribers out there who won’t be receiving two of those games, through no fault of their own.

A Tough Break

For PlayStation Plus users in Japan both Outlast: Trials and Killing Floor 3 will be excluded from the line-up, so they’ll be getting the usual three games.

If you’re wondering why these two games were singled out the answer is pretty obvious, it’s all about censorship.

Japan has pretty strict rules on over-the-top violence and gore, so it’s not surprising to see these games run into problems with the country’s censorship.

That’s not the only country affected though, as Saudi Arabia players will only be able to receive four of the five games, as once again Outlast: Trials conflicts with the country's censorship laws.

It’s a shame too because despite its violence Outlast: Trials really isn’t that bad, and when you party up with some friends the game can be an absolute blast.

You’d think Sony would replace the missing games with something else so every subscriber gets the allotted five, but I suppose that’d open an entirely different can of worms if some countries got better line-ups than others.