April PS Plus highlights

Sony’s April PlayStation Plus Game Catalog adds seven games on April 21, led by The Crew Motorfest, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and Football Manager 26 Console. (blog.playstation.com) Sony announced the lineup on April 15 through PlayStation.Blog, saying the April Game Catalog also includes Warriors: Abyss, The Casting of Frank Stone, Squirrel with a Gun and Monster Train for Extra and Premium members. (blog.playstation.com) Premium subscribers also get one Classics Catalog addition this month: Wild Arms 4, a PlayStation 2 role-playing game. All eight additions go live April 21. (blog.playstation.com; gematsu.com) PlayStation Plus works in tiers. Sony says Extra and Premium include the Game Catalog, while Premium adds the Classics Catalog and cloud streaming for select titles. (playstation.com) That tier split explains the April list. The new wave mixes a first-party PlayStation release in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, a Ubisoft racing game in The Crew Motorfest, a sports management simulator in Football Manager 26 Console and smaller genre titles including Warriors: Abyss and Monster Train. (blog.playstation.com) Sony’s post also spells out platform differences. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is available to PlayStation 5 players, while PlayStation 4 players get Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition instead; The Crew Motorfest and Warriors: Abyss are listed for both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, and Football Manager 26 Console is PlayStation 5 only. (blog.playstation.com) The catalog update lands in the same month as April’s separate Monthly Games drop, which Sony announced on April 1 for all PlayStation Plus members: Lords of the Fallen, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered and Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream, available from April 7 to May 4. (blog.playstation.com) For subscribers deciding whether to upgrade, April’s pitch is breadth rather than one genre: open-world racing, action adventure, football management, horror, roguelite combat and a PlayStation 2-era role-playing game all arrive in the same refresh on April 21. (blog.playstation.com; gematsu.com)