Most popular PS5 games — Need for Speed leads new PS Plus Extra games

This week's most popular PS5 games chart sees Need for Speed Unbound leading PS Plus Extra's newest additions, while Helldivers 2 someone gets even bigger.

Lee Brady

Published 26 Feb 2024

PS Plus Extra subscribers are rushing to pick up Need for Speed Unbound trophies, according to our chart of the top 40 most popular PS5 games from last week. Elsewhere, Foamstars has dropped right off the chart and Helldivers 2 supersedes EA Sports FC 24 as more and more players realize that it's one of the best PS5 multiplayer games on the console to date.

PS Plus Extra games for February 2024 make the top 40

First off, let's take a look at some of the new PlayStation Plus February 2024 Extra and Premium games, most of which have failed to really land in the top 40. However, it is a hectic month for popular games, what with Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Skull and Bones, and Granblue Fantasy Relink all still clinging to the most popular PS5 games list.

Breaking through the last wave of popular new 2024 games is Need for Speed Unbound, which scored the most new players out of all the Extra games this month. Assassin's Creed Valhalla also saw a strong performance, although seeing as more players have already experienced its length before, we shouldn't be too surprised to see it getting less love than Need for Speed. There's also The Outer Worlds pulling in just about the cut-off line in 39th place.

Further up the charts, we can see the continuation of Helldivers 2's PS5 player count rise, which defies all expectations by growing for a third week in a row. The game is now the third most popular on PS5 and seems to be fairly biting into the player count of Call of Duty at this point. Can it topple the free-to-play giants in first and second place? It seems unlikely, but let's be thankful it has done this well in the first place.

Elsewhere, let's take a moment to pour one out for Foamstars. The day-one PS Plus game's PS5 and PS4 player count drop has continued to the point where it no longer charts in the Top 40. That's quite the drop-off after the game initially launched in the top 10!

Finally, let's give a quick nod to the games that are seeing more players as a result of the news: Elden Ring and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. That Elden Ring DLC trailer dropped, seemingly reminding players that they should actually try and finish the base game someday.

Meanwhile, the launch of our Final Fantasy VII Rebirth first impressions (and the reviews on other sites) has even more players trying to get ahead of the story before the PS5 exclusive launches Thursday, February 29, 2024.

So, without further ado (I really ought to get back to my Elden Ring playthrough ASAP), here are the top 40 most popular PS5 games for the week ending Sunday, February 25, 2024.

Most Popular PS5 games (week ending Sunday, February 25, 2024)

Position	Game	Publisher	Last week
1	Fortnite	Epic Games	1
2	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II	Activision	2
3	HELLDIVERS 2	Sony Interactive Entertainment	5
4	EA SPORTS FC 24	Electronic Arts	3
5	Grand Theft Auto V	Rockstar Games	4
6	Roblox	Roblox	6
7	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	Ubisoft	9
8	Overwatch 2	Blizzard Entertainment	7
9	Apex Legends	Electronic Arts	8
10	Rocket League	Psyonix	10
11	Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition	Mojang Studios	11
12	Elden Ring	FromSoftware	20
13	NBA 2K24	2K Games	12
14	Madden NFL 24	Electronic Arts	13
15	Final Fantasy VII Remake	Square Enix	19
16	TEKKEN 8	Bandai Namco Entertainment	14
17	Gran Turismo 7	Sony Interactive Entertainment	15
18	Need for Speed Unbound	Electronic Arts	RE
19	Fall Guys	Epic Games	18
20	Genshin Impact	Cognosphere	16
21	Red Dead Redemption 2	Rockstar Games	17
22	Marvel's Spider-Man 2	Sony Interactive Entertainment	22
23	Dead by Daylight	Behaviour Interactive	29
24	Destiny 2	Bungie	23
25	Persona 3 Reload	SEGA	24
26	Baldur's Gate 3	Spike Chunsoft	26
27	The Last of Us Part II Remastered	Sony Interactive Entertainment	21
28	God of War Ragnarök	Sony Interactive Entertainment	27
29	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Activision	30
30	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth	SEGA	28
31	FIFA 23	Electronic Arts	33
32	Ghost of Tsushima	Sony Interactive Entertainment	35
33	Assassin's Creed Valhalla	Ubisoft	RE
34	Granblue Fantasy: Relink	Cygames	32
35	Diablo IV	Blizzard Entertainment	31
36	Cyberpunk 2077	CD Projekt	34
37	SKULL AND BONES	Ubisoft	37
38	Warframe	Digital Extremes	RE
39	The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition	Private Division	-
40	THE FINALS	Embark Studios	36

Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 3.2 million active PlayStation accounts (not just TrueTrophies accounts). Chart information is copyright GameInsights. Regarding this data:
When an account opens a game, this is registered as a game being played. Accounts can only register a game once per week.
Our data is good for suggesting general trends — we represent this using percentages, not numbers.

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Written by Lee Brady

Staff Writer Lee keeps one eye on the future (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth), one eye on the past (PS Plus Premium games), and his secret third eye on junk he really likes (Sonic games; Kingdom Hearts). Then he uses his big mouth to blurt out long-winded opinions about video games.