PS Plus Free Games for May 2022 Continue the Month's Curse
Prior to May, Sony has had a touch-and-go year with PS Plus. January and March received a pretty good selection of games, while February and April lagged behind. April was so poorly received that many hoped the PS Plus free games for May 2022 would redeem them. However, that doesn’t appear to be the case—not in full.
PS Plus tends to follow certain patterns, if for a certain amount of time. This doesn’t make it easy to predict what games will be on PS Plus, nor is it easy to judge when something is a new pattern. One thing that has remained constant, though, is the March rule and the May curse. In short, March tends to be one of the best months of the year every year and May tends to be one of the worst.
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It’s easy to look back at past months to see how this pattern became established. Back in 2018, for example, there were 6 games given out for March, with most of them being smaller games. The reason this month follows the March rule is that two of the games were Bloodborne and Ratchet and Clank, which is a hard month to follow even if those were the only two games.
In 2019, March 2019 added The Witness and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. The former had excellent reviews, even if it doesn’t have the biggest appeal as a puzzle game, and Modern Warfare Remastered joined at the perfect time. There was a lot of hype and speculation thatCall of Duty 2019’s game would be a new Modern Warfare, and PS Plus helped seal that deal. After all, first-person shooters are one of the most popular genres out there, and Modern Warfare is one of the most popular games among them.
Come 2020, March saw the addition of the Shadow of the Colossus Remake and Sonic Forces, which is pretty
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