PlayStation Plus Games for September 2022 Announced

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Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus games for September 2022 are Need for Speed Heat, Granblue Fantasy: Versus, and Toem. Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, all three games will be made available at no extra cost to all PlayStation Plus subscribers on September 6.

Need for Speed Heat is the third game in the reimagined series that kicked off in 2015, taking players to the roads of the fictional Floridian metropolis of Palm City. Heat centres around a day and night cycle that brings out different style of racing, with the player required to master both clean street races and gritty battles with rogue police.

We much preferred this one to Need for Speed 2015 and its sequel, Payback, as in our 8/10 review, IGN said: "Need for Speed Heat is a mosaic of existing ideas but it is easily the most impressive Need for Speed game in years."

Granblue Fantasy: Versus is a different vibe entirely. This four-button Japanese fighting game is made up of light, medium, and heavy attacks — alongside a character-specific finisher similar to Street Fighter 5's V-Skills — and it's automatically implemented combos make it one of the best entry points to the fighting genre out there.

IGN said it was great, as "it smartly balances considerations for more casual fighting game players without ever stepping on the toes of its hardcore audience."

Finally, the most niche of the three new games is Toem: A Photo Adventure, a hand-drawn adventure game centred around the delights of photography. Intended to be a relaxed and charming puzzler, it certainly appeared to accomplish that goal as IGN also gave it an 8/10 in our review.

"Toem is a short, satisfying little photography adventure packed with witty writing, goofy yet grounded characters, and a wealth