October's PS Plus Monthly Games are a Step in the Right Direction

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Free games are always a welcome addition to any online service, especially as the price of them keeps climbing every year. While it used to be enough for an online subscription to just offer the bare minimum, times have changed, and now Xbox Live, Nintendo Switch Online, andPlayStation Plus are all competing to be worthy of their yearly subscription price. While Xbox has integrated its online service with its stellar Game Pass system, and Switch Online offers a slew of classic NES and SNES titles, PlayStation Plus offers a healthy in between, giving subscribers three free games a month. And while this system isn't always worth the money, October's selection of free PS Plus games is certainly a step in the right direction.

Over the last few months, PS Plus subscribers have become more and more disheartened with the free games on offer. For those playing on PS4 still, they're offered two free games per month, while those on PS5 get three. Though this year has had plenty of great offerings, like Persona 5 Strikers, God of War, FIFA 22, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and Crash Bandicoot 4, these titles are few and far between. But October's free games break that trend, giving subscribers three distinct, excellent games.

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For the first time in a long time, each of PS Plus' October games is a show-stopper. On the PS4 side of things, PS Plus subscribers will get to download and keep both Injustice 2, and Superhot. While these games certainly aren't new, coming out in 2017 and 2016 respectively, they more than hold up today, and they're absolutely worth picking up if gamers haven't done so already.

Injustice 2, for those unaware, is a fighting game set in the DC universe. With NetherRealm at the helm,