Horizon Forbidden West is leaving PS Plus Extra next month

Each month, just as how they bring a bunch of new games to the PS Plus service, Sony also removes a number of games. Unfortunately, next month’s line-up of departees includes a massive first-party title in the form of Horizon Forbidden West.

In going to the PlayStation Plus section on your PS5, you’ll find a list of 12 titles under the ‘Last Chance to Play’ section. Leaving the service at some point next month (likely the 17th) are the following:

• Alien Isolation
• Cloudpunk
• Dragon Ball XenoVerse 2
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Marvel's Midnight Suns
• NieR Replicant
• Spiritfarer
• Star Ocean: First Departure R
• Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness
• Star Ocean: The Divine Force
• Star Ocean: The Last Hope
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

Of course, easily the biggest and most surprising title set to leave is Horizon Forbidden West – not only because of this critical and commercial success, but also due to the fact that it is a first-party PlayStation title.

Oddly enough, one of the few other first-party titles to leave the service was Horizon Zero Dawn a couple months ago – though at the time we speculated it may be due to the long-rumoured remake.

Regardless, PlayStation removing first-party titles from its own service is a major blow to PS Plus as a whole, and sets a troubling precedent for the future of the service.

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