Bunny Garden 2 Hits PS5 September 15 with Four-Player Co-Op

Rune World: Dragon Wilds launches on PS5 on September 15, 2024, and will be available day one in the PlayStation Plus Essential and Extra/Premium catalogs, Youmin Star reports. The open-world survival title supports solo play and up to four-player co-op, with all its 1.0 features intact: resource gathering, base building, cooking, and monster hunting—no early access caveats.

Few console survival games in 2024 offer this mix. While titles like Palworld remain absent on PS5 and Valheim leans heavily into punishing difficulty, Rune World: Dragon Wilds strikes a more accessible balance: brighter visuals, varied systems, and true four-player co-op—every task, from chopping trees to roasting meat, syncs in real time.

Sony locked in Rune World: Dragon Wilds as September’s first PS+ Essential and Extra/Premium addition as early as June 2024, signaling clear confidence in its readiness. For anyone with PS+, it’s free at launch—just download and grab three friends.

The pitch is straightforward: if you own a PS5 and a PS+ membership, install it on September 15. But don’t go solo. Playing Rune World: Dragon Wilds solo works, but it misses the chaos, laughter, and accidental base collapses that make co-op survival memorable.

Bottom line: It’s no genre-defining masterpiece, but it’s a polished co-op survival game that gets casual play right: shared tasks, low friction, and plenty of room for absurdity. Thanks to Sony’s early June decision, it arrives day-one on PS+—polished and free for subscribers.