If you’re looking for a new free-to-play game to fill your time with, you could do a lot worse than Apex Legends. Respawn Entertainment’s shooter title has transcended the battle royale genre with the introduction of Arenas and continues to impress with regular new content updates and in-game events.
Just how free is this free-to-play shooter, though? Do you still need to pay monthly for PS Plus if you want to play Apex Legends? There’s no single-player mode available with this one!
Do you need PS Plus to play Apex Legends?
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You’ll be pleased to know that – as a free-to-play game – you don’t need to pay for PS Plus to play Apex Legends. It might feel like a recent turn of events, but PlayStation has been ensuring that free-to-play games are truly free to play for quite some time now.
Games like Warzone, Fortnite, World of Tanks, Rocket League, Cross-Out… These are all free to download and play from the PlayStation Store – just like Apex Legends – and you shouldn’t need an active PS Plus subscription to jump into a game online.
It’s worth noting that you’re still going to need a PlayStation Network account and a PSN ID – but you should be prompted to create and sign into a PSN account when you first boot up your console.
These are free to make and will allow you to add Apex Legends to your Game Library on your PS4 or PS5 and ensure that any progress you make is saved. Apex Legends, in particular, might also ask you to create an EA Account. This should only better secure your progress, enable crossplay matchmaking features, and help prepare you for when cross-progression is available.
These are both free to make too and you might even be able to do it through your console – however, it might be easier to make these on a mobile device or a PC. Either way, the bottom line is that Apex Legends is free to play – you don’t need to pay for it and you don’t need a PS Plus membership.
