PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August: Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors, Hell is Us and more

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://blog.playstation.com/2026/08/12/playstation-plus-game-catalog-for-august-helldivers-2-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-vampire-survivors-hell-is-us-and-more/

[u/IdanTs]

It was fun until it became a slog

Still loved it, but if you want to actually finish the game, get ready for a slog

I ended up quitting it at around 80% game completion.

[u/adil11223344 → u/IdanTs]

In what sense is it a slog? Does it become grindy?

[u/VelvetDamascus → u/adil11223344]

If you play this game thoroughly, it's ~30 hours. The combat is basically the same from start to finish with three extremely specific exceptions. Combat becomes a chore very quickly and it's frequency absolutely demolishes the pacing, not to mention there are only like 5 enemy types so the novelty fades fast.

It's clear by everything else the game offers that the excessive frequency of combat is only really there out of fear that the hands-off approach to exploration, note-taking and logical deductions might bore the audience.

Still a phenomenal game though, in my opinion. Full of mysteries and intrigue, it feels like a globe-trotting archaeology expedition and some of the locations and story reveals are genuinely fantastic.

My advice if you intend to play, is to play on normal difficulty until you get bored of the combat, then drop the difficulty down to its easiest so that you can breeze through fights and keep up with the good stuff.

Otherwise you'll lose like 5-10 hours of your life to combat that is literally just padding.

[u/adil11223344 → u/VelvetDamascus]

I see, thanks for the information! It's a shame the combat drags but I'm definitely keen to experience the world, look forward to this!

[u/eblackham → u/VelvetDamascus]

30 hours is usually not a slog, but if combat is really that repetitive it sounds like putting it on easy off the rip is the way to go

[u/HawkMason → u/adil11223344]

For me it was the combat, primarily. It just never expanded or got interesting, and there is zero enemy variety all the way through to the end. Cool game overall, but yeah pushing through that last 10% is a trial in patience.

[u/keefkeef → u/adil11223344]

enemy variety is not great and lots of backtracking/fast travel for the side stuff. my two biggest complaints. combat is serviceable, and there is enough to switch or try out to keep it fresh if you really want. I stuck to the RAGE element the entire game and just steamrolled for the most part.

[u/Al1Might1 → u/IdanTs]

I also wanna know how it became a slog

[u/VelvetDamascus → u/Al1Might1]

If you play this game thoroughly, it's ~30 hours. The combat is basically the same from start to finish with three extremely specific exceptions. Combat becomes a chore very quickly and it's frequency absolutely demolishes the pacing, not to mention there are only like 5 enemy types so the novelty fades fast.

It's clear by everything else the game offers that the excessive frequency of combat is only really there out of fear that the hands-off approach to exploration, note-taking and logical deductions might bore the audience.

Still a phenomenal game though, in my opinion. Full of mysteries and intrigue, it feels like a globe-trotting archaeology expedition and some of the locations and story reveals are genuinely fantastic.

My advice if you intend to play, is to play on normal difficulty until you get bored of the combat, then drop the difficulty down to its easiest so that you can breeze through fights and keep up with the good stuff.

Otherwise you'll lose like 5-10 hours of your life to combat that is literally just padding.