PS5 Top 40 — PS Plus games land while Helldivers 2 update surges In our exclusive PS5 Top 40 chart, we've got PS Plus August 2024 debut positions while Helldivers 2 is seeing a surge in players with the latest update.Kes Eylers-Stephenson Published 12 Aug 2024 FollowtopicsChartKes Eylers-Stephenson It's our weekly PlayStation Chart that uses our exclusive sample for 3.1 million active PSN accounts (not just TrueTrophies accounts, courtesy of GameInsights)! This week, the PS5 Top 40 gives us the debut of the PS Plus August 2024 games and a look at the surge in Helldivers 2 players!LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga performs well on PS5 and PS4The PlayStation Plus games for August 2024 debuted last week. While Staff Writer Lee will do a deeper dive into the numbers behind each game this Sunday, our weekly chart gives us a great idea of how things are shaping up. Coming out on top is the biggest IP, LEGO Star Wars The Skywalker Saga, in #17.We've seen better debuts from lead games, particularly from ones where the IP is recognizable like Star Wars. Next week, it'll have a full week of data and more players will have a chance to start playing it. The fact it is a family-orientated game might mean that its key audience — parents and children — might be less clued into what games are dropping on PS Plus and thus late to the blocky party.I'm very interested in the fact that the second of our three games was the indie title. Players are collecting Ender Lilies Quietus of the Knights trophies en mass, raising the game into the #21 position on the chart. It looks like the Metroidvania-style platformer has an audience, let's see if they stick around! The final game for PS Plus was Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, a horror game from the incredibly successful FNAF franchise. I'm a little surprised that it hasn't debuted higher given the series' reputation, but a lot of that seems to come from PC players. It might simply be that the console fandom is in its infancy.With a new Helldivers 2 Escalation of Freedom update out, the players are dropping back into the game. The response has been somewhere between muted and outraged online, neither of which is great. With some overbearing nerfs on the weaponry and minimal major updates, it feels like players are waiting for something big to happen before really getting back into the mix.Do you think Helldivers 2 still deserves a spot amongst the best PS5 games Let us know in the comments below that you think of the chart this week! Here is the top 40 PlayStation Gameplay Chart for the week ending Sunday, August 11, 2024.Most popular PS5 and PS4 games (week ending Sunday, August 11, 2024)PositionGamePublisherLast week1 FortniteEpic Games12 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IIActivision33 EA SPORTS FC 24Electronic Arts24 Grand Theft Auto VRockstar Games45 RobloxRoblox66 Elden RingFromSoftware57 Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition (2)Mojang Studios78 Rocket LeaguePsyonix89 VALORANTRiot Games910 EA SPORTS College Football 25Electronic Arts1011 Apex LegendsElectronic Arts1512 Overwatch 2Blizzard Entertainment1213 The First DescendantNEXON1114 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six SiegeUbisoft1315 Destiny 2Bungie1416 HELLDIVERS 2Sony Interactive Entertainment2117 LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker SagaWarner Bros. GamesRE18 NBA 2K242K Games1619 Dead by Daylight 1/2Behaviour Interactive1720 Red Dead Redemption 2Rockstar Games1821 ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the KnightsBinary Haze Interactive-22 Gran Turismo 7Sony Interactive Entertainment2023 Fall GuysEpic Games2424 Zenless Zone ZeromiHoYo1925 Genshin ImpactCognosphere2226 Diablo IVBlizzard EntertainmentRE27 Five Nights at Freddy's: Security BreachSteel Wool Games-28 Astro's PlayroomSony Interactive Entertainment2329 Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIActivision3030 Marvel's Spider-Man 2Sony Interactive Entertainment2831 Borderlands 32K Games2732 Ghost of TsushimaSony Interactive Entertainment3133 TEKKEN 8Bandai Namco Entertainment2934 Among UsMaximum Games2535 Baldur's Gate 3Spike Chunsoft3736 Mortal Kombat 1Warner Bros. Games2637 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarActivisionRE38 WarframeDigital Extremes3539 XDefiantUbisoft3340 Remnant IITHQ Nordic32Chart compiled using gameplay data from over 3.1 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.Related stories: PS Plus brings over 3000% more players to underloved PS4 soulslike PS Plus August 2024’s lineup gets surprise swap for some subscribers PlayStation Plus August 2024 monthly games for PS5, PS4 now available PS5 Top 40 — Valorant popularity spikes by 51% with surprise free drop PS Plus monthly games August 2024 — how hard are the new platinums? Chart Written by Kes Eylers-StephensonEditor Kes is our resident expert in PlayStation and Sony news. He writes about PS5 games like LEGO Horizon Adventures, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Concord, and Death Stranding 2 using experience from years of PlayStation gaming. He also covers PS Plus news, as well as his favorite games — The Witcher 3, God of War, and The Last of Us — before an evening swim.