Blue Prince will be on PlayStation Plus from launch

Blue Prince releases on April 10, and will immediately be available on Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft announced last week. The PlayStation Blog announced today that it will be available the same day on PlayStation Plus, as well.

Between a nomination for “Best Gameplay” at Gamescom 2024 and a more recent deluge of positive reviews, the puzzle game — whose name I just recently realized is a play on “blueprints” — has garnered a ton of attention ahead of release. Blue Prince is the rare game to get a day-one release via both PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass, no doubt thanks to the strong word of mouth it’s enjoyed for the last year and change.

Here’s a little bit of what Jay Castello had to say about the game in their review for Polygon:

This gradual accumulation of knowledge is almost the whole of Blue Prince (one early room recommends having a notebook at hand; I filled several pages), although there are some architectural elements of the house that become permanent, making future runs more likely to be fruitful. These moments tend to feel big, some of them even having very atmospheric cutscenes that break up the routine of drafting door after door. You’ll also be collecting passwords and codes that stay the same across runs. Mainly, every new draft is a question of what you will learn about the estate and how you will apply that knowledge in future runs.

As for the other PlayStation Plus offerings this month, EA Sports PGA Tour will be available alongside Blue Prince on April 10, while Hogwarts Legacy, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2, Battlefield 1, and PlateUp! will be added to the game catalog on April 15. And finally, classics Alone in the Dark 2 and War of the Monsters will join the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 classics lineups, respectively.