The fantasy of subscription services is that one day we’ll have time. I joined Game Pass for the same reason I own a bunch of large, beautiful novels I have yet to read: Ooh, one day I’ll have time for that.
So let’s pretend, just for one Sunday, that the rainy day – the rainy weekend – is here. This feels like the best way to create an inroad in a list of games as wayward, and perhaps exhausting, as Playstation Plus’ current offering.
Let’s pretend: 48 hours with nothing else to do but play PS Plus games. What follows is my imagined journey through Playstation’s new service. What’s yours?
Day one. It’s morning. Do you remember Cuboid? It was a game from a decent while back – a clever puzzler about controlling a block of wood that was twice as long as it was wide. Over and over you’d turn it to navigate mazes and avoid traps. That feeling it gave you, of actually holding a block and turning it around in your hands. Ingenious and gentle, this feels like a lovely sleepy start to a day of games. Something to wake you up over the course of a few minutes and get your brain going.