Best Subscription services to obtain games in console and PC

Best Subscription services to obtain games in console and PC

Today we bring you a list with twelve subscription services to get games in console and PC. These services can be of two types, those that are "giving away" different games each month in exchange for the subscription and those that give you access to a wide range of games in exchange for a periodic payment.


The good news is that there are subscription services available on consoles and computers. In consoles are almost always official services offered by manufacturers, with some exception as Xbox has some more, while PC have several types of proposals and philosophies to choose from.
This article has been helped by our colleague Frankie MB, an expert in videogames as well as collaborator in Engadget and editor in VidaExtra. With your help we have gotten a fairly broad list with the main services, and we will start talking about those destined to video consoles to follow later with those of PC.

Services for video game consoles
Let's start talking about the services you can use in the different video consoles to get games in exchange for a monthly subscription. Most are official services, and both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch have to settle for a single alternative in Spain. However, the Xbox One has up to three different services.

PlayStation 4 has PlayStation Plus
And we started with Sony, which offers users of their consoles several free games in exchange for paying their subscription to PlayStation Plus. The cost of this Sony subscription starts at eight euros per month, and in exchange for paying you can play online with your video game console, access exclusive offers and receive two or three games every month completely free. This is the only service you have in Spain, since the PlayStation Now subscription is not yet available, although when it arrives we will be attentive to tell you about it.
The games are different every month, and you will not receive them retroactively but you will have to "buy them for free" every month they are offered. The quality of the titles that is given is variable, with some months with good proposals and others quite weak. In addition to PlayStation 4, games are also given for PlayStation 3 and Vita, and if you abandon the subscription you will lose all the games or become demos.

The prices of this service are the following:

7.99 euros for a month
24.99 euros for three months
59.99 euros for twelve months
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Nintendo Switch has its online with classic games
Nintendo is also content to have its own online service with free games in exchange for a subscription, but in this case they do not give you games every month but they give you access to a catalog of titles. This is the Nintendo Switch Online service, which for four euros a month allows you to play online, save data in the cloud, use your mobile application and access a catalog of classic games.
That's right, the Nintendo flat rate does not give you access to Switch games, but allows you to play NES classics like Balloon Fight, Baseball, Excitebike, Ice Climber, Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 or The Legend of Zelda. Of course, if you leave the subscription you will no longer be able to access the games, although the data in the cloud will remain in the memory of the console.

The prices of this service are the following:

3.99 euros for a month
7.99 euros for three months
19.99 euros for twelve months
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Xbox One has up to three different services
Xbox One users are, within the video game sector, those who have more alternatives when deciding on one or more services that offer games in exchange for a subscription. Next we are going to tell you what are each of the three available alternatives.

The first alternative is the Xbox Games With Gold, which in exchange for having an Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online also give you games every month. In this case, the games that Microsoft gives you are two titles for Xbox One and two for Xbox 360 that are also compatible for the One.

The games are different every month, and you will not receive them retroactively but you will have to "buy them for free" every month they are offered. As for the games themselves, as in the case of Sony, they can be better or worse depending on the month. And if you stop paying for the service, you will lose the games that were given to you for Xbox One, although you will keep the Xbox 360 games.

The prices of this service are the following:

6.99 euros for a month

59.99 euros for twelve months

EA Access is the monthly subscription service of Electronic Arts. In exchange for its cost, it offers its members access to more than 50 titles, exclusive proofs of its major releases a week before its departure date, and a 10% discount on all items from the company's store. Microsoft

Therefore, if you pay for this service you will be able to access some of the latest games of the company, such as The Sims 4 and soon FIFA 18. And as for the anticipated game, you can play for example for 10 hours a Battlefield V a week before it goes on sale without having reserved it, and if you then buy the progress of this test have been saved.

The prices of this service are the following:

3.99 euros for a month

24.99 euros for twelve months

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And thirdly we have the Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft's attempt to create an authentic Netflix of video games. In exchange for a monthly fee, you have access to a library of 100 games for all Xbox consoles. Also, in case you want to buy one of them to keep them if you abandon the subscription, the Game Pass includes a 10% discount.

Two other interesting things about this proposal is that Microsoft Studios games will be available from the day they are released, such as Forza Horizon 4 or future Halo and Gears Of War. In addition, the Xbox Game Pass is also preparing to reach PC, confirming Microsoft's commitment to the convergence between console and computer.

The price of this service is as follows:

9.99 euros per month

Computer services
Once the list of services available for video consoles is finished, we go with the subscription services for PC games. In this section you will be able to see other seven services that you can hire in exchange for monthly payments, some with full catalogs such as Electronic Arts or nVidia, but also others with free monthly games such as Humble Monthly or Amazon.


Origin Access with access to more than 100 EA games
Electronic Arts is one of the developers that has been betting for more time to find ways to digitally market their games. First he faced Steam with Origin, and then he proposed the subscription system Origin Access, which is like EA Access for Xbox One but focused on the computer, with access to a wide collection of games and a 10% discount on purchases in Origin. .
The service has a total of 150 games that you can access from the first day, advance access through 10-hour tests to the next games of the company, and additional content for new titles that are being launched.

The prices of this service are the following:

• 3.99 euros for a month
• 24.99 euros for twelve months

Origin Access Premier adds new complete games before launch

Origin Access is not the only EA service, as it also has an enhanced alternative called Origin Access Premier. Do not give or play limited to ten hours, the main advantage of this other service is that you can access the new games a few days before its official release, and these you can play without limits to be the full game.

In this way, it will be possible to obtain the next AAA of the company before its respective launches. In addition, it will also allow download and play the 150 video games that are already available in Origin Access, including the latest additions by Warner Bros., for example.

The prices of this service are the following:

• 14.99 euros for a month
• 99.99 euros for twelve months

Humble Monthly gives you more than $ 100 in games every month

The Humble Bundle have established themselves as one of the best alternatives for those who are looking for good-value game packs, and those responsible took it a step further by launching a pack of games that allows users to download a good number of different video games each month for such Only twelve euros per month.

The promise of this service is that each month you will get games and content with a value higher than 100 dollars, which means that you will almost multiply by ten what you are paying. The releases will be announced little by little, so that if you register at the end of the month to Humble Monthly you will only see the main protagonists of the pack, and the rest will be announced later.

The prices of this service are the following:

• 12 dollars for a month
• $ 35 for three months
• 67 dollars for six months
• 132 dollars for one year