Every Game Added In May 2025

PlayStation Plus used to be a subscription service that got you a few free games every month and access to other titles’ online features. Needing to come up with something that looked a little more like Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation shook things up in 2022 and introduced a tiered PS Plus system. Now there are three options to choose from: Essential, Extra, and Premium. Each tier costs more than the last, but paying more will get you access to more features and a bigger library of games.

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Essential is the same as the old PS Plus. The cheapest option which lets you play online and gets you a handful of free games every month. Extra gets you quite a lot more, opening up a library of PS4 and PS5 games you can download and play for the price of your subscription. Last but not least is Premium which includes everything you get with Extra plus access to PlayStation’s classics library as well as demos for various new games. Fresh games are added to each tier every month, and below you’ll find what you’ll get throughout June, regardless of the tier you’re subscribed to, as well as links to where you can upgrade your subscription or sign up if you don’t currently have PS Plus.

PS Plus Essential

If you’ve got PS Plus Essential and nothing else, you’ll get three free games each month. Titles that you need to claim before they’re replaced the following month, and that will remain playable for no additional cost for as long as you have an active PS Plus subscription. It’s even better than that this month, as PlayStation is throwing in a fourth game to celebrate Days of Play.

NBA 2K25 is leading the charge. With the launch of NBA 2K26 right around the corner, 2K wants as many people playing the latest game in the series as possible. Give it away for free, and enough people might like it so much that they want to buy the new installment later this year. Joining it is the still relatively new Alone in the Dark starring big-name actors David Harbour and Jodie Comer.

The fantastic Bomb Rush Cyberfunk rounds out the base three Essential giveaways for June, and The Final Shape makes it four. The bad news is you will need Destiny 2 to make use of it, but the good news is that’s also free-to-play. The even better news is that, by the time you read this, The Final Shape will be available to claim through PS Plus.

If you’re subscribed to Extra, not only do you get free games every month through Essential, but you also get access to a library of PS5 and PS4 games. Unlike the Essential games, Extra’s library, and the hundreds of games within it, aren’t only available for a month. They’re there waiting for you whenever you want to play them.

This is normally the point where I tell you June’s Extra games haven’t been revealed yet, but thanks to Days of Play, that’s only partly true. While there will be a regular Extra drop later this month, four games have already been revealed. One of them is available now, Another Crab’s Treasure, as it technically arrived on Extra before June had even begun.

Skull and Bones, Ubisoft’s self-proclaimed quadruple-A game, will join it on June 2, and then Destiny 2: Legacy Collection will become an Extra game on June 4. A lot more Destiny 2 for those who have some catching up to do. Last, but not least, before the rest of Extra’s June games arrive will be GTA 3’s Definitive Edition when it’s added to the library on June 10.

PS Plus Premium

Premium is the highest tier of PS Plus and gets you everything mentioned above, along with access to the Classics Catalog. The Classics Catalog is where PlayStation has been gathering together some of its older games, many of which were originally released on the PS1.

Premium’s May offering was a little worrying, with only a single game added to the Classics Catalog. June is looking a little more promising as this isn’t even the full drop for the month, and we already know two of the games coming our way this month thanks to Days of Play. Myst and Riven will be available through Premium starting on June 5.

The even better news for Premium subscribers is that the tier is getting some more trials. The opposite of the Classics Catalog, Premium’s trials let subscribers into some of the newest games for a limited time. By the time you read this, trials for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and Civilization 7, both games released in 2025, will be available.

Coming To PS Plus Later This Year

PlayStation has bucked its bimonthly PS Plus games reveal trend this year and announced other titles that will be coming to various tiers of its subscription service beyond the next month. Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 1 dropped day one on February 18, and Tape 2 followed two months later on April 15, and that’s not all.

Following in Lost Records’ footsteps was Blue Prince, joining Extra in April. A strategy game that promises to tie your mind in knots, the puzzling indie is now available through PS Plus Extra and Premium. Abiotic Factor will do the same when it hits PS Plus this summer. Another indie, but this one has six players trying to survive deep beneath the earth’s surface, crafting as they go in an attempt to fend off monsters and make their new home habitable.

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PlayStation Plus is a subscription service from Sony. It comes in three paid tiers – Essential, Extra, and Premium, and offers free monthly games to own, a catalog of hundreds of games, cloud storage, discounts, and online multiplayer gameplay.

Leaving PS Plus

With new games arriving on Extra and Premium every month, existing games need to leave to make room for them. I don’t know why either, but PlayStation says so. May was a rough one for the service, with a lot of games leaving Plus. June isn’t so bad with just six departing titles revealed so far, although there is a particularly big game among them – Monster Hunter Rise. If you have been making your way through Rise thanks to Plus, pick up the pace, as pretty soon, you’ll have to pay for it.

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