PlayStation Plus first free game for September is one we've been waiting for

If you haven’t heard of the next title coming to PlayStation Plus this September, then strap yourself in because it looks like an absolute banger.

As announced on the PlayStation Blog last night, The Plucky Squire will be dropping on the PlayStation Plus catalogue on the 17th of September; the same day the game releases worldwide.

TimeSplitters is back on PlayStation consoles!

The action-adventure game is being developed by All Possible Futures and is set to be published by Devolver Digital. There’s also a cute little trailer out if you fancy giving it a look beforehand.

Non-PlayStation owners need not fear though, as the game is also coming to Xbox Series X/S, the Nintendo Switch, and PCs on the same aforementioned date, alongside the PlayStation 5.

Personally, I’ve been excited for this game ever since I read Chris Tapsell’s write up on it back in June for Eurogamer.

Chris referred to it as one of the “most joyful” experiences he’d “had in video games for a little while”.

He went on to describe it as a “top-down Zelda-like adventure” where you fight “little enemy blobs with your sword or using a nice little throw-and-recall system for it like a manually-summoned boomerang”.

The Zelda comparison seems extremely apt here, as some of the gameplay in The Plucky Squire looks very similar to something like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

To clarify, that’s a massive compliment and not an allegation of unoriginality. We need more games like A Link Between Worlds, not less.

James Turner, founder of the developer All Possible Futures, does have some former experience with Nintendo too.

Turner worked as an art designer on multiple Pokemon titles and the platformer HarmoKnight at Game Freak before moving on to found All Possible Futures, alongside Curve Digital’s former design director Jonathan Biddle in 2019.