Here’s a first look at the games in the new PlayStation Plus

With the new PlayStation Plus launching in June, we haven’t had many finer details aside from the different subscription tiers. Thankfully, Sony finally gave us more information on what we can expect from the revamped service, although it’s not straightforward right away.

First off, the free games for the Essential tier (aka what we have now) have yet to be announced for June, and May’s were available starting May 3rd. What everyone else is interested in are the Extra and Premium tiers.

As a refresher, the Extra tier gives you access to the games-on-demand library of PlayStation 4 and 5 games for $15 per month or $100 per year. The Premium gives you access to that library, but you also can stream games back to the original PlayStation as well as time-limited trials of new first-party games. This tier is $18 per month or $120 per year.

So what’s in the games-on-demand library and the classics library? Well, there are only three PS5 games available at the start: Returnal, Destruction AllStars, and the Demon’s Souls remake. However, the PS4 games fill this out incredibly well. Some of the highlights are Bloodborne, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut, Red Dead Redemption 2, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and both the Spider-Man games.

Included with all of these PlayStation offerings are games available on UbiSoft+, although most of those are older games that have had more recent sequels (Watch Dogs, Far Cry 3, and 4).

That leaves us with the “classics” library, which is a loose definition. You have old-school games like Ape Escape and Dark Cloud and then other games like the remaster of BioShock and Borderlands Handsome Edition. Some of the games offered will include higher frame rates and better resolution and an interface that will let you save your game at any time.

Already purchased a digital version of one of the classic tiered games? Sony claims that you’ll be able to download it for free as it becomes available in the store, but we will have to see if there are any hiccups around this.

There are plenty of heavy-hitting games available in the higher tiers that make them pretty enticing, especially if you want something similar to Xbox’s Game Pass.

The new PS Plus launches in Asia on May 24, Japan on June 2, North and South America on June 13, and Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on June 24.