25% of Voters Want None of April's PS Plus Games

When the most popular answer in a "which game are you most excited for?" poll is "none of them," something isn't working. That's exactly where PlayStation's subscription service finds itself this month, according to a reader poll published by Push Square on April's PS Plus Extra and Premium lineup.

Out of 67 voters asked which Extra game they were most looking forward to, 25% selected "None of them, to be honest." That beat out every single game on the list individually, including Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered at 16% and The Crew Motorfest at 21%. Another 10% said they don't subscribe to Extra at all. So over a third of respondents either aren't interested or aren't even on the tier.

The broader satisfaction numbers tell a similar story. Only 12% of voters said they were "very happy" with the Extra selection, while 36% combined said the lineup was either "very happy" or "mostly happy." On the other end, 33% called it disappointing or outright crap. The middle ground, the "meh, they're okay" crowd, sat at 22%. That's a lot of indifference for a service that costs real money every month.

Premium Fares Worse

If Extra's reception was lukewarm, Premium's was ice cold. A full 24% of respondents called the lone Premium addition, PS2 RPG Wild Arms 4, a "terrible choice." Only 10% were happy with it in any capacity. The largest group, at 35%, doesn't even subscribe to Premium, which itself says something about how Sony has struggled to justify that top tier.

I've said before that Premium's value proposition has been shaky since launch, and months like this don't help. One PS2 game per month, especially a divisive one like Wild Arms 4, isn't going to convince anyone sitting on the fence to upgrade. Sony needs to either commit to making Premium feel different from Extra or stop pretending it's a separate tier worth the price bump.

The full Extra lineup for April includes Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Crew Motorfest, Football Manager 26 Console, Warriors: Abyss, Monster Train, Squirrel with a Gun, and The Casting of Frank Stone. On paper, that's a decent spread across genres. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is a quality game, and Warriors: Abyss has quietly built a following since launching last year with consistent free content updates. The Crew Motorfest and Football Manager 26 Console even have playable trials available right now on the PS Store before the full catalog additions go live on Tuesday, April 21, with save data carrying over.

But here's the issue I keep running into with PS Plus Extra: most of these games have either been deeply discounted already or were available through other means for months. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has been out since 2024. The Crew Motorfest launched in 2023. Football Manager 26 Console had well-documented issues at launch. If you're the type of player who buys games at release or even catches them on sale, the Extra catalog increasingly feels like it's serving up leftovers rather than reasons to stay subscribed.

Compare that to what's happening on the Game Pass side. Microsoft is losing nine titles at the end of April, including Hunt: Showdown 1896, Citizen Sleeper, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, but the incoming lineup still features new day-one releases. PS Plus Extra rarely gets that. Sony's first-party games hit the catalog months or years after launch, and third-party additions tend to skew toward older titles. The subscription model only works if people feel like they're discovering something they wouldn't have played otherwise, and a quarter of voters saying "nothing here for me" suggests that feeling is fading.

Six games are also leaving PS Plus Extra on April 21, including Dave the Diver, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, and Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories. If you haven't tried Dave the Diver yet, this weekend is your last window before it disappears from the catalog. That game alone was a stronger pull than most of what's replacing it, which probably tells you everything you need to know about how April is landing with subscribers.