{"id":716436,"date":"2026-07-29T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716436\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:52:09","slug":"augusts-three-playstation-plus-free-essential-monthly-games-include-dying-light-2-and-big-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716436\/","title":{"rendered":"August\u2019s three PlayStation Plus \u2018free\u2019 Essential monthly games include Dying Light 2 and Big Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation has officially announced the three games coming to the PlayStation Plus Essential tier this month.<\/p>\n<p>August\u2019s selection consists of three games, which will be available for players to claim from August 4 until August 31.<\/p>\n<p>The first of these games is <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Dying Light 2 [74 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/dying-light-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dying Light 2<\/a>: Stay Human \u2013 Reloaded Edition, which is available for both <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PlayStation 5 [9,503 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ps5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS5<\/a> and <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Platforms &gt; PlayStation 4 [8,699 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/platforms\/playstation\/ps4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS4<\/a> players to claim.<\/p>\n<p>This is joined by Big Walk, the PS5 co-operative multiplayer adventure designed around talking to your teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the third game in August\u2019s selection is Signalis, a PS4 survival horror in which players search for their lost partner and lost dreams.<\/p>\n<p>All three games will be available to claim from August 4 until August 31, at which point they will be replaced by another selection of titles.<\/p>\n<p>As ever, players who claim the games will be able to continue playing them after they\u2019re no longer available to claim, as long as they remain subscribed to any PlayStation Plus tier.<\/p>\n<p>Players can continue to claim July\u2019s PlayStation Plus Essential games until July 7. These include <a class=\"link-relationship\" title=\"Games &gt; Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 [236 articles]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/games\/call-of-duty\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/a>, For the King 2 and CrossCode.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sony-announces-plan-to-shift-away-from-offering-ps4-games-through-playstation-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony previously announced<\/a> that starting in January 2026, PS4 games would \u201cno longer be a key benefit\u201d of the service, with the platform holder instead turning its focus to offering PS5 titles.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t appear to have happened, however, as the addition of the PS4 game Signalis this month suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PlayStation has officially announced the three games coming to the PlayStation Plus Essential tier this month. August\u2019s selection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}