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3 New PS Plus Essential Games Live Now, Including PS5 RPG Dragon Age

One of the biggest PS Plus Essential games for some time, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, is available to download now for all active members, along with two additional PS5, PS4 titles in Sonic Colors: Ultimate and TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection. The three games are redeemable in the UK and across Europe, and availability will be rolled out to the USA later in the day.

Since this is Sony’s base subscription tier, as long as you at least redeem the games to your PSN account, you’ll be able to play them for as long as you maintain that active membership. It means that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is effectively being given away, despite the fact it only released a couple of months ago.

The full PS Plus Essential lineup for March 2025 looks like this:

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PS5) | Review
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection (PS5, PS4) | Review
Sonic Colors: Ultimate (PS4) | Review

To gauge your excitement for this month’s selection, we published the usual Push Square Poll gathering your thoughts over the weekend. The response was just about positive, with 51 per cent of voters suggesting they are either at least somewhat satisfied with the offering or “very happy” about it. As expected, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the PS5, PS4 game you’re looking forward to playing most.

With good reason, too, as we awarded an 8/10 rating in our Dragon Age: The Veilguard PS5 review last year. “Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn’t quite BioWare back to its absolute best, but it is the most cohesive and emotionally engaging RPG that the studio has delivered since Mass Effect 3,” we said. Now you can play it without charge if you have a PS Plus Essential subscription.

Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he’s found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.

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vikramsingh
9:17am

Finally! Can’t wait to boot DA tonight!

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get2sammyb
9:32am

Will be playing some Turtles tonight!

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Godot25
9:32am

It’s still wild how DAV is in PS Plus less than 6 months after release. How big of a commercial bomb it must have been.

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LifeGirl
9:36am

“Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn’t quite BioWare back to its absolute best, but it is the most cohesive and emotionally engaging RPG that the studio has delivered since Mass Effect 3.”

The word “quite” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here given how Mass Effect 3 wasn’t being given away for free six months later.

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Hyena_socks
9:37am

Looking forward to giving DA:V another chance, my time with it was perfectly alright but it didn’t light any fires for me. But I hadn’t played DA:I in years and I’d just spent £70 on it, so traded it in after about 15-20 hours. Now it’s free and I’ve replayed DA:I, maybe I’ll get more into it.

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naruball
9:41am

@LifeGirl ah, yes. Because success = quality

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Max_the_German
9:41am

Play Turtles in Time! In couch co-op! Now!

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LifeGirl
9:48am

@naruball If you have a recognisable brand and publisher behind you and yet still sell so few copies that your product is being given away after six months, then yes, in this case, sales do indeed indicate quality.

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naruball
9:53am

@LifeGirl once again. Nope. Plenty of good games have sold many copies and plenty of terrible games have sold well.

As for the brand, I’ll give you two examples: Prince of Persia reboot and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Both great games that didn’t sell well.

And let’s not even forget how different ps+ was when ME3 came out.

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Matroska
9:54am

@LifeGirl And that it did so badly it killed the franchise and decimated the developer. It was an enormous misfire. And I say that as someone who actually bought it and initially enjoyed it despite reservations, so I’m not just jumping on the hate bandwagon.

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Matroska
10:06am

@naruball Sure but this is one of the most famous and beloved WRPG franchises. Even unfinished, half-baked games in the same series like DA2 sold well because of the love for the series. This is like if the next CoD, GTA or FIFA flops and kills the franchise. Inquisition was controversial amongst fans and criticised in a multitude of ways but still sold 12 million and became Bioware’s best selling game.

Those Prince of Persia games came after the series had faded into near obscurity thanks to various bad games and after the cultural peak of the series was all the way back in 2003 or so. They also weren’t advertised much. They had an uphill battle. Veilguard could have simply been mediocre and would’ve sold well. Instead it killed the franchise and the dev team, it didn’t simply sell badly.

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djlard
10:14am

CORRECTION: One of the biggest PS Plus Essential games for some time, TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection, is available to download now for all active members, along with two additional PS5, PS4 titles in Sonic Colors: Ultimate and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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SoulChimera
10:18am

@djlard This is the way.

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UltimateOtaku91
10:22am

If sales indicate quality and the game being in a subscription means it’s crap then does that mean any games that get added to gamepass and playstation plus day one mean the same? 🤔

Being added to a subscription means absolutely nothing about the games quality, you’re better off using metacritic for measuring a games quality and Dragon Age Veilguard has a metacritic of 82 on PS5 and 85 on Xbox, which means it’s a good game.

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Marquez
59m ago

Some people are simply born ungrateful.

I’ll be giving DAV a fair go by actually playing it, instead of just riffing off third party ‘discourse’ – assuming I ever get out of the MH Wilds character creator 🤣

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Bentleyma
56m ago

I think people should at least try Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I really enjoyed it. I don’t think it’s quite as good as Inquisition, but it definitely doesn’t deserve all the hate it’s been getting.

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dBackLash
51m ago

Pretty excited to try out dragon age after work

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species
43m ago

@Bentleyma But Inquisition was already terrible! Filled with silly mmo like quests and blant characters.

Dragon age series is riding on the success of Origins, which is only a testament to how phenomenal that game was.

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rusty82
41m ago

If you have been on the fence about DA and you have playstation plus nows the perfect opportunity to see it’s for you.

I enjoyed it for 5 hours, plodded on for another 5 or so then couldn’t be bothered.

Some may try it and hate it, some may try and love it. Most will likely be somewhere in between but it would be madness not to at least try it

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Jey887
39m ago

@species I liked Inquisition. You know what they say: opinions are like a*seholes.

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RiverGenie
35m ago

There is a lot of misinformation & controversy surrounding DA: Veilguard mostly from folks who didn’t actually play it. So I hope folks with PS+ will take the time to give it ago so they have something solid to base their opinion on, for good or bad.

Me, I played 100+ hours on Xbox with a run on each class and enjoyed myself immensely. I won’t be doing that again on Playstation though. I have no reason to as I cleared the game on the other console.

Other two game are of no point interest to me personally.

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