Sony’s June PlayStation Plus lineup arrives at an awkward time. Just weeks after Sony confirmed a price increase for new one-month and three-month subscribers in select regions from May 20, the service is adding three multiplayer-heavy games: Grounded Fully Yoked Edition, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2.
All three games will be available to PlayStation Plus members from June 2 through July 6. EA Sports FC 26 will also remain available as a Monthly Game until June 16.
Grounded brings backyard survival to PS Plus
The strongest pick this month is Grounded Fully Yoked Edition, which comes to both PS5 and PS4 through the service. Obsidian’s survival game shrinks players down to the size of insects and drops them into a backyard filled with oversized threats.
Players can explore alone or team up with up to three friends online. The core loop is built around gathering materials, crafting armor and weapons, building shelter, and surviving encounters with the creatures roaming the garden. There is also a story behind the shrinking, giving players a reason to keep pushing beyond basic survival.
Darktide adds a grimdark co-op option
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide gives PS5 players a much harsher co-op shooter. Instead of casting players as legendary heroes, it throws them into the hive city of Tertium as disposable convicts fighting a Chaos-infested uprising in the Emperor’s name.
That setup gives Darktide a very different mood from the rest of the lineup. It is grim, filthy, and built around the feeling of surviving one desperate mission at a time while the Imperium treats you as another body for the meat grinder. The game mixes close-range melee combat with lasguns, class abilities, and heavy Warhammer 40K atmosphere.
For Warhammer fans, it delivers a decaying gothic-industrial hive city, religious fanaticism, chainblades, and a constant feeling of impending doom. It is the month’s heaviest pick, and it should be a blast for anyone looking to carve through heretics with friends in the name of the Emperor of Mankind.
Nickelodeon rounds out the month
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is the lighter addition as far as the setting goes, but its fast-paced platform fights can turn sweaty quickly. It brings together Nickelodeon characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Squidward, and Jimmy Neutron for chaotic, Super Smash Bros-style battles. The game also offers a single-player campaign option where you try to stop Vlad Plasmius from taking over the Nickelodeon universe. It will be available for both PS4 and PS5 players.
Stephan is the sports journalist for the Maple Grove Report.
