Seven Final Fantasy Games Among 25 Titles Leaving PS Plus On May 21

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Video game subscription services are fantastic for those of us who are fed up with spending $70 on new games, not to mention the opportunity they provide to catch up on your backlog without having to buy even more games. The downside is relying on a service to have the games you want to play, and even worse, as PlayStation Plus has demonstrated this week, games leaving the service with little warning. PlayStation quietly confirmed 25 games will be leaving its PS Plus library next month, and a significant chunk of them are big Final Fantasy titles.

PlayStation quietly updated PS Plus's Last Chance To Play page (thanks, Push Square), and leading the charge of games leaving its Extra and Premium tiers on May 21 is Final Fantasy 7. That's just the original version of the game, not Final Fantasy 7 Remake which will still be available through PS Plus for the foreseeable future. PlayStation appears to be having something of a Final Fantasy clearout as six other games from the series, including 8, 9, and both parts of 10, will also be leaving on the same day.

Almost certainly not an indicator that Square Enix and PlayStation's Final Fantasy agreement has fallen on hard times, and more a sign that the timeframe the two parties gave for the games to be on PS Plus is about to expire. Since they were likely all added at the same time, that means they're all leaving at the same time. For the optimists among you, it could also be a sign that the long-awaited Final Fantasy 9 remake is real and some concrete news will be coming soon.

While the Final Fantasy games leaving the service are the ones stealing all the headlines, they're far from the only titles departing PS Plus next month. Also joining them are The Artful Escape, My Friend Pedro, Jotun, and Monster Jam Steel Titans 2. The full list of games leaving the service can be found below. Note that even if you have these games downloaded, unless you paid for them, they will become unplayable once they leave PS Plus. If