EA Play and EA Play Pro | Everything you need to know

Subscription services are all the rage right now. Don't think about how many different companies you're now subscribed to on a monthly basis as it will make you shudder. But they're hard to resist as they tend to offer great bang for the buck.

Through the last decade, third-party game developer and publisher Electronic Arts had two subscription services. There was EA Access, and then there was Origin Access. The former also came in an EA Access Premier tier. And to make things even more confusing, there is also Origin, the company's own online marketplace.

Ahead of the launch of the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, EA looked to streamline its services. For the next generation of gaming, there is only one brand you need to think about: EA Play.

What is EA Play?

EA Play is a subscription video games service run by Electronic Arts, better known as EA. For a monthly fee, you get access to a large library of new and classic games from the famed developer. In addition, you receive a host of perks. This includes early access to games before they are released, member-only challenges, in-game rewards, invite-only event access and a 10% discount on purchases from the Origin Store.

There are two tiers to EA Play. There is EA Play Basic (which is the old EA Access and Origin Access services), and then there is EA Play Pro (which is the old EA Access Premier service).

How much does EA Play cost in Australia?

The basic EA Play plan costs $8.95 a month or $59.95 a year. The EA Play Pro plan is $24.95 a month or $159.95 a year.

However, as we will go into in more detail below, if you play on a Windows 10 PC, on an Xbox Series X/S or on an Xbox One, there is a more compelling subscription option. Access to the EA Play Basic plan is free as part of the Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which costs $15.95 a month.

EA Play vs EA Play Pro

The main difference between the two subscription services is the number of games you can access. As of the end of 2020, you could access 199 games on EA Play and 240 on EA Play Pro. Plus, nine of the games on both services have additional content on the EA Play Pro plan. The extra titles on the EA Play Pro plan tend to be the latest releases – EA games that have come out in the last two years.

If you have the EA Play plan, you can still play the 40+ games that are exclusive to the premium EA Play Pro plan. However, you're restricted to just 10 hours of gaming per title. It's worth noting that new games are added all the time, too.

Feature	EA Play	EA Play Pro
Price	$6.99/month or $39.99/year	$19.99/month or $129.99/year
Play new releases up to 10 days before launch	Up to 10 hours	Unlimited
Access to all of EA’s latest games	Up to 10 hours	Unlimited
Exclusive in-game rewards	Yes	Yes
Exclusive member-only content	Yes	Yes
Unlimited access to a collection of premium EA games	Yes	Yes
10% off Origin purchases	Yes	Yes
Contract	No	No
Included in Game Pass Ultimate	Yes	No
Availability	Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC	Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
Number of Games	199*	240*

* Valid as of December 2020

How does EA Play work on Steam?

After the best part of a decade of not seeing eye-to-eye, Electronic Arts and Steam – the PC gaming online store run by Valve – have rekindled their relationship. You can now buy some EA games, and even subscribe to EA Play, through Steam. However, the number of games available through EA Play on Steam is greatly reduced; just 48 as of December 2020. And it's not possible to subscribe to EA Play Pro through Steam.

EA Play and Game Pass Ultimate

As briefly mentioned above, the EA Play Basic plan is included as part of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. We encourage you to read the full Game Pass Ultimate guide for all the details, but it's the best value service in gaming. In our opinion, it's a must own for any Xbox gamers, and is a compelling option for PC gamers, too.

Game Pass Ultimate brings with it access to a rotating library of around 150 games (including all Microsoft games on launch day), online play (which comes with an additional two free games a month), member-only game discounts, special trial access and a subscription to streaming game platform xCloud. Then, on top of that, you get EA Play and its huge library of games and perks.

Yes, it cost $24.95 a month, but you get so much more for your money it's a worthwhile upgrade for gamers considering EA Play.

List of games on EA Play

Below you will find a list of the games available on EA Play and EA Play Pro as of 2 December 2020. Note that the games you can access via your subscription may change by region or by format. For example, there are a number of PC-only games on this list that you cannot play on consoles.

Game	Developer	Release Date	EA Play (Steam)	EA Play Basic	EA Play Pro
A Plague Tale: Innocence	Asobo Studio	14 May 2019	No	No	Yes
A Way Out	Hazelight Studios	23 March 2018	Yes	Yes	No
Anthem	BioWare	22 February 2019	No	Yes	No
AO Tennis 2	Big Ant Studios	9 January 2020	No	No	Yes
Apotheon	Alientrap Games	3 February 2015	No	Yes	No
Aragami	Lince Works	4 October 2016	No	Yes	No
Autonauts	Denki	17 October 2019	No	No	Yes
Battlefield 1	DICE	21 October 2016	Yes	Yes	Yes
Battlefield 3	DICE	25 October 2011	Yes	Yes	Yes
Battlefield 4	DICE	29 October 2013	Yes	Yes	No
Battlefield Hardline	Visceral Games	17 March 2015	Yes	Yes	No
Battlefield V	DICE	20 November 2018	Yes	Yes	Yes
Beholder	Warm Lamp Games	9 November 2016	No	Yes	No
Beholder 2	Warm Lamp Games	4 December 2018	No	Yes	No
Blackguards	Daedalic Entertainment	22 January 2014	No	Yes	No
Blackguards 2	Daedalic Entertainment	20 January 2015	No	Yes	No
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night	ArtPlay	18 June 2019	No	Yes	No
Bomber Crew	Runner Duck	19 October 2017	No	Yes	No
Breathedge	RedRuins Softworks		No	Yes	No
Burnout Paradise Remastered	Criterion Games	21 August 2018	Yes	Yes	No
Capsized	Alientrap Games	29 April 2011	No	Yes	No
Chaos on Deponia	Daedalic Entertainment	6 November 2012	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer	Westwood Studios	26 September 1995	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars	DICE Los Angeles	28 March 2007	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight	DICE Los Angeles	16 March 2010	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection	Petroglyph Games	5 June 2020	No	No	Yes
Command & Conquer: Generals	EA Pacific	10 February 2003	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer: Red Alert	Westwood Studios	22 November 1996	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2	Westwood Pacific	23 October 2000	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3	DICE Los Angeles	28 October 2008	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising	DICE Los Angeles	12 March 2009	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer: Renegade	Westwood Studios	26 February 2002	No	Yes	No
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun	Westwood Studios	27 August 1999	No	Yes	No
Cosmic Star Heroine	Zeboyd Games	11 April 2017	No	No	Yes
Crashlands	Butterscotch Shenanigans	21 January 2016	No	No	Yes
Crusader: No Regret	Origin Systems	10 September 1996	No	Yes	No
Crusader: No Remorse	Origin Systems	31 August 1995	No	Yes	No
Cryptark	Alientrap Games	20 June 2017	No	Yes	No
Crysis	Crytek	13 November 2007	Yes	Yes	No
Crysis 2	Crytek	22 March 2011	Yes	Yes	No
Crysis 3	Crytek	19 February 2013	Yes	Yes	No
Darksiders III	Gunfire Games	27 November 2018	No	No	Yes
Darkwood	Acid Wizard Studio	17 August 2017	No	No	Yes
Dead Cells	Motion Twin	7 August 2018	No	Yes	No
Dead in Vinland	CCCP	12 April 2018	No	Yes	No
Dead Space	Visceral Games	20 October 2008	Yes	Yes	No
Dead Space 2	Visceral Games	25 January 2011	Yes	Yes	No
Dead Space 3	Visceral Games	5 February 2013	Yes	Yes	No
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition	The Chinese Room	14 February 2017	No	Yes	No
Deponia Doomsday	Daedalic Entertainment	1 March 2016	No	Yes	No
Detention	Red Candle Games	12 January 2017	No	Yes	No
Diluvion	Arachnid Games	2 February 2017	No	Yes	No
Dragon Age II	BioWare	8 March 2011	Yes	Yes	No
Dragon Age: Inquisition	BioWare	18 November 2014	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dragon Age: Origins	BioWare	3 November 2009	Yes	Yes	No
Dungeon Keeper	Bullfrog Productions	26 June 1997	No	Yes	No
Dungeon Keeper 2	Bullfrog Productions	25 June 1999	No	Yes	No
Dungeons 3	Realmforge Studios	13 October 2017	No	Yes	No
Dungeons of Dredmor	Gaslamp Games	13 July 2011	No	Yes	No
Endless Legend	Amplitude Studios	18 September 2014	No	No	Yes
Epistory - Typing Chronicles	Fishing Cactus	30 March 2016	No	Yes	No
Farmer's Dynasty	UMEO Studios	21 November 2019	No	No	Yes
Fe	Zoink	16 February 2018	Yes	Yes	No
FIFA 16	EA Vancouver	22 September 2015	No	Yes	No
FIFA 17	EA Vancouver	29 September 2016	No	Yes	No
FIFA 18	EA Vancouver	29 September 2017	No	Yes	No
FIFA 19	EA Vancouver	28 September 2018	No	Yes	No
FIFA 20	EA Vancouver	24 September 2019	No	Yes	No
FIFA 21	EA Vancouver	9 October 2020	No	No	Yes
For the King	IronOak Games	19 April 2018	No	Yes	No
Fran Bow	Killmonday Games	27 August 2015	No	Yes	No
Frostpunk	11 bit studios	24 April 2018	No	Yes	No
FTL: Faster Than Light	Subset Games	14 September 2012	No	Yes	No
Furi	The Game Bakers	5 July 2016	No	Yes	No
Ghost of a Tale	SeithCG	13 March 2018	No	No	Yes
Gone Home	The Fullbright Company	15 August 2013	No	Yes	No
Goodbye Deponia	Daedalic Entertainment	17 October 2013	No	Yes	No
Hacknet	Team Fractal Alligator	12 August 2015	No	Yes	No
Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition	Massive Damage	10 August 2017	No	No	Yes
Hand of Fate	Defiant Development	17 February 2015	No	No	Yes
Hiveswap: Act 1	What Pumpkin Games	14 September 2017	No	Yes	No
Home Behind	TPP Studio	2 June 2016	Yes	Yes	No
Hue	Fiddlesticks Games	30 August 2016	No	Yes	No
Hyper Light Drifter	Heart Machine	31 March 2016	No	Yes	No
Inside	Playdead	7 July 2016	No	No	Yes
Into the Breach	Subset Games	27 February 2018	No	Yes	No
Jade Empire: Special Edition	BioWare	26 February 2007	Yes	Yes	No
Judgment	Suncrash	3 May 2018	No	Yes	No
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning	KAIKO Games	8 September 2020	No	No	Yes
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars	TT Games	22 March 2011	No	Yes	No
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga	TT Games	13 October 2009	No	Yes	No
Legrand Legacy: Tale of the Fatebounds	Semisoft	24 January 2018	No	Yes	No
Limbo	Playdead	2 August 2011	No	No	Yes
Little Misfortune	Killmonday Games	18 September 2019	No	No	Yes
Lost Castle	Hunter Studio	1 September 2016	No	Yes	No
Mable and the Wood	Triplevision Games	23 August 2019	No	No	Yes
Mad Games Tycoon	Eggcode	13 September 2016	No	No	Yes
Madden NFL 19	EA Tiburon	10 August 2018	No	Yes	No
Madden NFL 20	EA Tiburon	2 August 2019	No	Yes	No
Madden NFL 21	EA Tiburon	28 August 2020	No	No	Yes
Mass Effect	BioWare	28 May 2008	Yes	Yes	No
Mass Effect 2	BioWare	26 January 2010	Yes	Yes	No
Mass Effect 3	BioWare	6 March 2012	Yes	Yes	No
Mass Effect: Andromeda	BioWare	21 March 2017	Yes	Yes	No
Medal of Honor (2010)	DICE Los Angeles	12 October 2010	Yes	No	No
Medal of Honor: Airborne	DICE Los Angeles	4 September 2007	Yes	Yes	No
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault	2015 Inc.	22 January 2002	No	Yes	No
Mini Metro	Dinosaur Polo Club	6 November 2015	No	Yes	No
Mirror's Edge	DICE	13 January 2009	Yes	Yes	No
Mirror's Edge Catalyst	DICE	7 June 2016	Yes	Yes	No
Moonlighter	Digital Sun	29 May 2018	No	Yes	No
Mugsters	Reinkout	17 July 2018	No	Yes	No
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden	The Bearded Ladies	4 December 2018	No	Yes	No
My Time at Portia	Pathea Games	15 January 2019	No	Yes	No
Need for Speed (2016)	Ghost Games	15 March 2016	Yes	Yes	No
Need for Speed Heat	Ghost Games	8 November 2019	Yes	Yes	No
Need for Speed Payback	Lucid Games	10 November 2017	Yes	Yes	Yes
Need for Speed Rivals	Ghost Games	19 November 2013	Yes	Yes	No
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered	Stellar Entertainment	6 November 2020	No	No	Yes
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)	Criterion Games	30 October 2012	Yes	Yes	No
Nex Machina	Housemarque	20 June 2017	No	Yes	No
Northgard	Shiro Games	7 March 2018	No	No	Yes
Opus Magnum	Zachtronics	7 December 2017	No	No	Yes
Out of the Park Baseball 20	Out of the Park Developments	22 March 2019	No	Yes	No
Overcooked!	Ghost Town Games	3 August 2016	No	Yes	No
Oxenfree	Night School Studio	15 January 2016	No	Yes	No
Peggle	PopCap Games	27 February 2007	Yes	Yes	No
Peggle Nights	PopCap Games	16 September 2008	Yes	No	No
Plants vs. Zombies	PopCap Games	5 May 2009	Yes	Yes	No
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville	PopCap Games	18 October 2019	Yes	Yes	Yes
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare	PopCap Games	24 June 2014	No	Yes	No
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2	PopCap Games	23 February 2016	No	Yes	No
Pony Island	Daniel Mullins Games	4 January 2016	No	Yes	No
Populous	Bullfrog Productions	5 June 1989	No	Yes	No
Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods	Bullfrog Productions	1 September 1991	No	Yes	No
Project Highrise	SomaSim	8 September 2016	No	No	Yes
Pyre	Supergiant Games	25 July 2017	No	Yes	No
Rebel Galaxy	Double Damage Games	20 October 2015	No	Yes	No
Renowned Explorers: International Society	Abbey Games	2 September 2015	No	Yes	No
Rocket Arena	Final Strike Games	14 July 2020	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sea of Solitude	Jo-Mei Games	5 July 2019	Yes	Yes	No
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun	Mimimi Productions	6 December 2016	No	No	Yes
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero	WayForward Technologies	20 December 2016	No	Yes	Yes
Shenzhen I/O	Zachtronics	17 November 2016	No	No	Yes
Shift Quantum	Fishing Cactus	30 May 2018	No	Yes	No
Shio	Coconut Island Games	5 May 2017	No	Yes	No
SimCity (2013)	Maxis	5 March 2013	No	Yes	No
SimCity 2000	Maxis	18 October 2012	No	Yes	No
SimCity 4	Maxis	14 January 2003	Yes	Yes	No
Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption	Dark Star	16 October 2018	No	Yes	No
Slay the Spire	Mega Crit Games	23 January 2019	No	Yes	No
Snake Pass	Sumo Digital	28 March 2017	No	Yes	No
Sonic Mania	Christian Whitehead	29 August 2017	No	No	Yes
Sparklite	Red Blue Games	14 November 2019	No	No	Yes
Spore	Maxis	7 September 2008	Yes	Yes	No
Star Wars Battlefront (2015)	DICE	17 November 2015	Yes	Yes	No
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017)	Motive Studios	17 November 2017	Yes	Yes	No
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Respawn Entertainment	15 November 2019	Yes	No	Yes
Star Wars: Battlefront	Pandemic Studios	21 September 2004	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Battlefront II	Pandemic Studios	31 October 2005	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Dark Forces	LucasArts	15 February 1995	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Empire at War	Petroglyph Games	16 February 2006	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Episode I - Racer	LucasArts	18 May 1999	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds	LucasArts	9 November 2001	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II	LucasArts	10 October 1997	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy	Raven Software	17 September 2003	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith	LucasArts	24 February 1998	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast	Raven Software	26 March 2002	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic	BioWare	19 November 2003	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords	Obsidian Entertainment	8 February 2005	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Rebel Assault	LucasArts		No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire	LucasArts	1 November 1995	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Rebellion	Coolhand Interactive		No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Republic Commando	LucasArts	4 March 2005	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D	Factor 5	3 December 1998	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire	LucasArts	17 September 1997	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: Squadrons	Motive Studios	2 October 2020	No	No	Yes
Star Wars: Starfighter	LucasArts		No	Yes	No
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed	LucasArts	6 November 2009	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II	LucasArts	26 October 2010	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: TIE Fighter	Totally Games	17 July 1994	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: X-Wing	Totally Games	1 February 1993	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance	Totally Games	28 February 1999	No	Yes	No
Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter	Totally Games	1 May 1997	No	Yes	No
Stealth Bastard Deluxe	Curve Studios	28 November 2012	No	Yes	No
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones	Curve Studios	30 April 2015	No	Yes	No
Sudden Strike 4	Kite Games	11 August 2017	No	No	Yes
Superhot	Superhot Team	25 February 2016	No	Yes	No
Tacoma	Fullbright	2 August 2017	No	Yes	No
The Bard's Tale Trilogy	Krome Studios	14 August 2018	No	Yes	No
The Count Lucanor	Baroque Decay	3 March 2016	No	Yes	No
The Escapists	Mouldy Toof Studios	13 February 2015	No	Yes	No
The Escapists 2	Team17	22 August 2017	No	Yes	No
The Flame in the Flood	The Molasses Flood	24 February 2016	No	Yes	No
The Invisible Hours	Tequila Works	10 October 2017	No	Yes	No
The Lego Movie Videogame	TT Fusion	7 February 2014	No	Yes	No
The Saboteur	Pandemic Studios	8 December 2009	No	Yes	No
The Sexy Brutale	Tequila Works	12 April 2017	No	Yes	No
The Sims 3	The Sims Studio	2 June 2009	Yes	Yes	No
The Sims 4	Maxis	2 September 2014	Yes	Yes	Yes
The Sinking City	Frogwares	27 June 2019	No	No	Yes
The Solus Project	Grip Digital	7 June 2016	No	Yes	No
The Surge	Deck13 Interactive	16 May 2017	No	No	Yes
The Surge 2	Deck13 Interactive	24 September 2019	No	No	Yes
They Are Billions	Numantian Games	18 June 2019	No	Yes	No
This Is the Police 2	Weappy Studio	31 July 2018	No	No	Yes
This War of Mine	11 bit studios	14 November 2014	No	Yes	No
Titanfall	Respawn Entertainment	11 March 2014	Yes	Yes	No
Titanfall 2	Respawn Entertainment	28 October 2016	Yes	Yes	No
Torchlight II	Runic Games	20 September 2012	No	Yes	No
Trine 2	Frozenbyte	7 December 2011	No	Yes	No
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince	Frozenbyte	8 October 2019	No	No	Yes
Trine Enchanted Edition	Frozenbyte	24 July 2014	No	Yes	No
Tropico 6	Limbic Entertainment	29 March 2019	No	Yes	No
Turmoil	Gamious	2 June 2016	No	Yes	No
Two Point Hospital	Two Point Studios	30 August 2018	No	No	Yes
Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness	Origin Systems	1 January 1987	No	Yes	No
Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress	Origin Systems	24 August 1982	No	Yes	No
Ultima III: Exodus	Origin Systems	23 August 1983	No	Yes	No
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar	Origin Systems	16 September 1985	No	Yes	No
Ultima IX: Ascension	Origin Systems	24 November 1999	No	Yes	No
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny	Origin Systems	5 October 1988	No	Yes	No
Ultima VI: The False Prophet	Origin Systems	1 January 1990	No	Yes	No
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle	Origin Systems	25 March 1993	No	Yes	No
Ultima VII: The Black Gate	Origin Systems	16 April 1992	No	Yes	No
Ultima VIII: Pagan	Origin Systems	15 March 1994	No	Yes	No
Ultimate Chicken Horse	Clever Endeavour Games	4 March 2016	No	Yes	No
Unravel	Coldwood Interactive	9 February 2016	Yes	Yes	No
Unravel Two	Coldwood Interactive	9 June 2018	Yes	Yes	No
Vambrace: Cold Soul	Devespresso Games	28 May 2019	No	Yes	No
Vampyr	Dontnod Entertainment	5 June 2018	No	Yes	No
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus	Bulwark Studios	15 November 2018	No	No	Yes
Warhammer: Chaosbane	Eko Software	4 June 2019	No	No	Yes
Wing Commander	Origin Systems	27 September 1990	No	Yes	No
Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi	Origin Systems	1 January 1991	No	Yes	No
Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger	Origin Systems	1 January 1994	No	Yes	No
Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom	Origin Systems	12 February 1996	No	Yes	No
Wing Commander: Privateer	Origin Systems	23 September 1993	No	Yes	No
Worms W.M.D	Team17	23 August 2016	No	Yes	No
Wreckfest	Bugbear Entertainment	14 June 2018	No		Yes
Yoku's Island Express	Villa Gorilla	29 May 2018	No	Yes	No
Yooka-Laylee	Playtonic Games	11 April 2017	No	Yes	No