PS Plus May 2025 Games: Free Titles Revealed
- PlayStation Plus Essential subscribers are set to receive a fresh batch of free games from May 6 to June 2.
- Balatro, the poker roguelike developed by LocalThunk, gained popularity in 2024, earning a game of the Year nomination."Ark: survival Ascended," a remaster of 2015's "Ark: Survival Evolved," remains...
- A total of 22 games will be removed from the PlayStation Plus catalog on May 20, including:
get the essential scoop on the May 2025 PS Plus games lineup! Dive into the free titles arriving on May 6th, starring the poker-roguelike Balatro, remastered Ark: Survival Ascended, and the retro FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. This month, you’ll also discover which games, including Grand Theft Auto 5 and Batman: Arkham Knight, are leaving the service on May 20th. News directory 3 has all the details on what’s in and what’s out. Wondering what’s next for Extra and Premium subscribers? Discover what’s planned for the rest of 2025!
May 2025 PlayStation Plus: Free Games, Leaving Titles and More
Updated May 28, 2025
PlayStation Plus Essential subscribers are set to receive a fresh batch of free games from May 6 to June 2.
The May 2025 lineup includes:
- Balatro
- Ark: Survival Ascended
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Balatro, the poker roguelike developed by LocalThunk, gained popularity in 2024, earning a game of the Year nomination.”Ark: survival Ascended,” a remaster of 2015’s “Ark: Survival Evolved,” remains in early access since its late 2023
release,with Studio Wildcard continuing growth. “Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun,” released in 2023, offers a
’90s-style FPS experience.
Games Leaving PS Plus
A total of 22 games will be removed from the PlayStation Plus catalog on May 20, including:
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Before Your Eyes
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Enter the Gungeon
- Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord
- Ghostrunner
- grand Theft Auto 5
- inFAMOUS: Second Son
- Journey to the Savage Planet
- LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2
- MotoGP 24
- Payday 2: Crimewave edition
- Portal Knights
- Resistance 2
- Resistance: Fall of Man
- stranded: Alien Dawn
- Synth Riders
- The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame
- The Sims 4: Island Living
- the Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 2
- Walkabout mini Golf
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium
The Extra and Premium tiers of PlayStation Plus offer an expanded library of games. The additions to these tiers for May
have not yet been announced.
Currently, the following titles are available on the Premium and extra tiers:
- Alone in the Dark 2
- War of the Monsters
PS Plus Recommendations
The PS Plus Game Catalog includes titles such as:
- Control: Ultimate Edition
- Death Stranding Director’s Cut (PS5)
- Days Gone (PS4)
- Demon’s Souls (PS5)
- DOOM Eternal (PS4, PS5)
- Horizon Forbidden West (PS4, PS5)
PS Plus Premium subscribers can access classic games from PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP, with PS3 games available via cloud
streaming.
Classic titles include:
- Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee (PS1)
- Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1)
- Resident Evil Director’s cut (PS1)
- The Jak and Dexter series (PS2)
- Dark Cloud (PS2)
- The God of War Collection and God of War Ascension (PS3)
- inFAMOUS and inFAMOUS 2 (PS3)
- Pursuit Force: extreme Justice (PSP)
- Killzone: Liberation (PSP)
Premium members also have access to time-limited game trials, with progress carrying over to the full game upon
purchase. Trials include:
- A plague Tale: Requiem – Two hours
- Baldur’s Gate 3 – Two hours
- Cyberpunk 2077 – Five hours
- God of War Ragnarok – Three hours
- The Last of Us: Part I – Two hours
- Hogwarts Legacy – 45 minutes
- Spider-Man 2 – Two hours