{"id":378057,"date":"2025-08-27T16:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378057\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:27:12","slug":"ps-plus-essential-games-for-september-2025-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378057\/","title":{"rendered":"PS Plus Essential Games for September 2025 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What proves a small surprise about September 2025&#8217;s selection is only one of the three games are native to PS5. Of course, Psychonauts 2 and Stardew Valley play on PS5 via backwards compatibility, but they are PS4 titles at the end of the day. Nevertheless, there&#8217;s a lot of quality on show in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Psychonauts 2 is a fantastic action platformer that was awarded a 9\/10 score in our PS4 review. &#8220;There are very few games that offer an experience as good as this, with ingenious level design and heavier themes that never feel sludgy or, more importantly, preachy,&#8221; we said at release. &#8220;Brilliant aesthetics go hand in hand with tremendous gameplay here and it&#8217;s a genuine delight to say that it&#8217;s all been worth the wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stardew Valley is a now-iconic farming simulator game that everyone knows about, so its high quality is common knowledge. In the case of Viewfinder, it offers an interesting first-person puzzle experience where you take pictures and then the contents of those photos materialise in the game world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Setting aside the narrative, which is pretty forgettable, this is a largely impressive, compelling puzzle game with a truly unique gameplay hook,&#8221; we said at the end of a 7\/10-rated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/reviews\/ps5\/viewfinder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Viewfinder PS5 review<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2025\/08\/27\/playstation-plus-monthly-games-for-september-psychonauts-2-stardew-valley-viewfinder\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2025\/08\/27\/playstation-plus-monthly-games-for-september-psychonauts-2-stardew-valley-viewfinder\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog.playstation.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Croft\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he&#8217;s found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What proves a small surprise about September 2025&#8217;s selection is only one of the three games are native&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25594,59,55,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ps-plus","9":"tag-ps4","10":"tag-ps5","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101672713377020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}