PS Plus Free Game for August 2024 Comes at the Right Time

It’s over a week into a new month, which means PS Plus subscribers have received a handful of new titles to add to their library before the end of August. The PS Plus Essential lineup for August 2024 includes notable titles such as Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach and Ender Lilies, but the headliner, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, is arguably the best deal of the three. Offering a potential 160 hours of gameplay, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga takes players through all nine Star Wars films with their choice of almost 400 characters for a fun-filled, smile-inducing, and action-packed reimagining of some of the most recognizable science fiction stories ever made.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga may be a couple of years old now, but it couldn’t have been added to the PS Plus Essential August 2024 lineup at a better time. Specifically, ahead of its arrival on PS Plus are two other highly anticipated games that subscribers can use LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga to prepare themselves for while they wait.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Arrived on PS Plus at the Right Time

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’s Addition to PS Plus Makes Sense Ahead of Star Wars Outlaws

With the launch of Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s scoundrel fantasy Star Wars Outlaws just around the corner, there has arguably never been a better time to play through LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, especially now that it’s “free” on PS Plus through August. While Star Wars Outlaws has been fairly divisive despite not being released yet, it is nonetheless a Star Wars game, so any hype generated by The Skywalker Saga would likely be put to good use. At the very least, since Star Wars Outlaws takes place between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, PS Plus subscribers could play through The Skywalker Saga until they’ve beaten the Empire Strikes Back portion of the game to get a helpful, albeit comically exaggerated, overview of the story leading up to Outlaws.

Something else to consider is that players will not be wielding a lightsaber in Star Wars Outlaws as they have in so many other Star Wars games. Instead, they will wield a blaster like the game’s protagonist, Kay Vess, who, as far as what has been revealed so far, is not a Force user. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga features a multitude of playable characters, many of whom do not wield lightsabers. This would be another way those awaiting the release of Star Wars Outlaws could prepare for its unconventional gameplay.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga on PS Plus Should Prepare Players for LEGO Horizon Adventures

Another justifiable reason PS Plus subscribers might want to pick up LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga while they still can is the impending release of LEGO Horizon Adventures. LEGO Horizon Adventures is a reimagining of Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn as a LEGO game, which means players can expect the same story but with exaggerated facial expressions, plenty of laughs, and over-the-top action that wasn’t present in the original game.

Those who might have once been a fan of the LEGO series of video games and have since grown unfamiliar with them can now reacquaint themselves with its antics in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, if only to prepare themselves for LEGO Horizon Adventures. Additionally, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker is a great way for subscribers to prepare for Star Wars Outlaws, should they have it on their wish list. However, PS Plus subscribers who may have no plans to play LEGO Horizon Adventures and Star Wars Outlaws are still benefiting from LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga‘s addition to PS Plus this month, especially when considering its scope in comparison to one of July’s most controversial PS Plus games, Among Us​​​​​​.

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the sixth installment in the Lego Star Wars series (from developer Traveller’s Tales). This release features a wide array of playable characters, as well as some truly detailed settings that will bring a smile to any Star Wars fantatic’s face.

Released

April 5, 2022

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer

Engine

NTT Engine

ESRB

E10+ for Everyone 10+: Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief

How Long To Beat

19 Hours

X|S Enhanced

Yes

File Size Xbox Series

45 GB (November 2023)

Split Screen Orientation

Vertical Only

Number of Players

1-2

Local Co-Op Support

1-2 Players

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