Don't Play Hell Let Loose On PS Plus Extra If You Claimed It Through Essential

Check If You Already Have Hell Let Loose Before Playing It Through PS Plus Team17 Published Nov 12, 2026, 3:00 PM EST Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. Hell Let Loose was confirmed to be among November’s PS Plus Extra games on Tuesday and has already been added to the subscription service’s middle tier. However, you’ll want to double-check if it’s already in your library, and figure out how it got there, before you download it and dive in. Team17’s first-person shooter drops you into World War 2 onto battlefields with 99 other players. Yes, it’s a war-based multiplayer game like Call of Duty, but it offers up a very different experience to most other games in the same genre. That’s why there will likely be a lot of you giving it a go now that it’s on Extra. Hell Let Loose Has Been On PS Plus Before Team17 The thing is, Hell Let Loose has been on PS Plus before. Not via the Extra library, but given away to subscribers via the service’s monthly Essential giveaways, before they carried the Essential label. That’s why it now being available through Extra poses a potential problem those planning to jump back into the game will want to be wary of. Hell Let Loose was actually an early example of a game that launched day one on PS Plus, all the way back in October 2021. It stands to reason that you may have forgotten about it, especially if you played it for a little while and then never went back, or if you’re the kind of person who claims every free game, even if you might never play them. Essential games are yours to keep forever, provided you have an active PS Plus subscription. Extra games don’t work the same way. They’re part of a library that you always have access to while subscribed to that tier, but the games in that library come and go. That means one day, Hell Let Loose might, and almost certainly will, eventually leave Extra. Team17 Therein lies the problem, as highlighted by PlayStation Lifestyle. If you previously claimed Hell Let Loose through Essential, forgot that you did that, and now claim the game again through Extra, the Extra license may override your Essential one. That means, if and when Hell Let Loose leaves Extra, you will lose access to the game, even though you technically should own the license if you claimed it in 2021. If you previously bought the game, this isn’t an issue. It only seems to be a problem for games that were given away via Essential and then later added to Extra, with users not being told the game is already in their library before they download it through Extra. If it’s already too late, then when Hell Let Loose does eventually leave Extra, you can try to contact PlayStation to reinstate your Essential license, but that might not be possible. If you are planning on playing Hell Let Loose through Extra, just check you don’t already have it. You might have no memory of claiming it, but again, it was five years ago, and you may have just absentmindedly claimed every game that month and move on. Released July 27, 2021 ESRB M For Mature 17+ due to Blood and Gore, Violence Developer(s) Black Matter Publisher(s) Team17 Engine Unreal Engine 4 Multiplayer Online Multiplayer Genre(s) First-Person Shooter