It’s a Sprint: Games Leaving PlayStation Plus April 2025 Edition
Kena: Bridge of Spirits by Ember Lab
Daylight savings is a bad idea.
I’m exhausted about 80% of the time as it is, but the two weeks that follow the “spring forward” are extra debilitating. It’s never convenient, but watching my stack of projects I’m halfway through grow before my heavy eyes feels especially bad in 2025.
The people reading in Arizona are laughing.
In addition to this, it doesn’t help that real life is always threatening to strangle the precious few leisure hours I have. Serious question, why do I need to go to the DMV? I just want to read and play games.
Speaking of, here is everything scheduled to leave PlayStation Plus next month:
Animal Well
Metacritic Score: 90
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 7-17 hours
Tales of Kenzera: Zau
Metacritic Score: 76
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 7.5-10 hours
Nour: Play With Your Food
Metacritic Score: NA (41% User Rating on HowLongToBeat)
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 46 minutes-8 hours
Deliver Us Mars
Metacritic Score: 69
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 8-11 hours
Miasma Chronicles
Metacritic Score: 69
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 21.5-29 hours
Stray Blade
Metacritic Score: 60
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 13.5-19.5 hours
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Metacritic Score: 81
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 10-20.5 hours
Slay the Spire
Metacritic Score: 89
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 12-186 hours
After the grueling marathon that was my recent playthrough of Lies of P (see the Game Pass piece that went up earlier today), I appreciate that most of these departures are bite-sized.
My priority for the next four weeks, from this list, is going to be Animal Well. The eerie, dark, and mysterious Metroidvania was made by one person and was met with glowing reviews. I should be in love with it–it just hasn’t gotten its hooks in me yet (I was deep in Crow Country around the time it was dominating conversations last year). I plan to follow that with the gorgeous Kena: Bridge of Spirits. I remember it receiving some Jak and Daxter comparisons upon release (and that’s exactly what I want right now).
I might also play Tales of Kenzera: Zau–yes, I accept that there is already too much on my plate and my eyes are bigger than my stomach.
My To Do lists read like phonebooks.
Would you believe I don’t have many life updates since this morning? Unless you want me to thrill you with a graphic retelling of my dentist appointment (I won’t subject you to that). Instead, I’ll tease that I have another interview in the works and if anything exciting gets revealed at Thursday’s Future Games Show, you can expect some kind of coverage. As a general rule, it doesn’t take much to get me excited–but for some reason they’ve revealed half of their showcase in advance (maybe to set appropriate expectations?). I’ll still be watching.
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