As a reminder, the new PlayStation Plus tiers will arrive here in the UK on 23rd June, as with elsewhere in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. This follows the service’s launch in the Americas on 13th June, Japan on 2nd June, and Asia next week on 24th May. Included with both the new Extra and Premium tiers, the PS4 and PS5 Game Catalogue will include numerous recent PlayStation exclusives, including Returnal, Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, Demon’s Souls, Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut and Horizon Zero Dawn. Big names from beyond Sony’s own studios will include Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Control: Ultimate Edition, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (seemingly at the same time it’s available via Xbox Game Pass), and Red Dead Redemption 2. Indies include Celeste, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight and Outer Wilds. Moving up to the Premium tier’s additional catalogue of classic games, its here you’ll find “improved frame rates and higher-quality resolution”. Some “select” original PlayStation and PSP games will also include the ability to save at any time or rewind. Finally, if you own the digital version of these games already, you won’t need to buy them again or subscribe to play them. However, only some will be available to purchase individually. Included in the list of classic games from PlayStation studios are Ape Escape, Hot Shots Golf, Jumping Flash! and Syphon Filter from the original PlayStation, as well as Worms Armageddon and Mr. Driller from third-party studios. Remastered versions of Ape Escape 2 and Naughty Dog’s Jak series from the PS4 era will also be included, as will BioShock Remastered, Borderlands: The Handsome Collection, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning and the Lego Harry Potter Collection. Premium owners also get a selection of PS3 games via game streaming, to play on PS4, PS5 and PC. These include Demon’s Souls, Ico, Infamous, MotorStorm Apocalypse, Eurogamer favourite Tokyo Jungle, plus Ratchet & Clank games Quest for Booty, A Crack in Time and Into the Nexus. Third-party streaming games will include Enslaved, Asura’s Wrath and Red Dead Redemption’s zombie spin-off Undead Nightmare. Lastly, Premium owners get a selection of two-hour time-limited game trials for recent releases. These will notably include Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection and Horizon Forbidden West, plus Cyberpunk 2077 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland. Last week, PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said Sony’s AAA game quality would “deteoriate” if they were included as part of Plus when they launched. These are just a selection of the games we’re expecting on the service - which you can see below, or on our dedicated PlayStation Plus Premium games list page - which will also be kept refreshed each month. The first Tuesday of each month will see new games join all tiers of the new PlayStation Plus - the same as now - while a mid-month update will bring new games to the catalogues of both Plus Extra and Premium tiers. Sony notes that availability of all these games will vary over time, and by region. Here’s all the games announced so far:
PS4 and PS5 Game Catalogue
PlayStation Studios
Alienation - Housemarque, PS4 Bloodborne - FromSoftware, PS4 Concrete Genie - Pixelopus, PS4 Days Gone - Bend Studio, PS4 Dead Nation Apocalypse Edition - Housemarque, PS4 Death Stranding and Death Stranding Director’s Cut - Kojima Productions, PS4/PS5 Demon’s Souls - Bluepoint Games, PS5 Destruction AllStars - Lucid Games, PS5 Everybody’s Golf - Japan Studio, PS4 Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut - Sucker Punch, PS4/ PS5 God of War - Santa Monica Studio, PS4 Gravity Rush 2 - Japan Studio, PS4 Gravity Rush Remastered - Japan Studio, PS4 Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games, PS4 Infamous First Light - Sucker Punch, PS4 Infamous Second Son - Sucker Punch, PS4 Knack - Japan Studio, PS4 LittleBigPlanet 3 - Sumo Digital, PS4 LocoRoco Remastered - Japan Studio, PS4 LocoRoco 2 Remastered - Japan Studio, PS4 Marvel’s Spider-Man - Insomniac Games, PS4 Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales - Insomniac Games, PS4/PS5 Matterfall - Housemarque, PS4 MediEvil - Other Ocean, PS4 Patapon Remastered - Japan Studio, PS4 Patapon 2 Remastered - Japan Studio, PS4 Resogun - Housemarque, PS4 Returnal - Housemarque, PS5 Shadow of the Colossus - Japan Studio, PS4 Tearaway Unfolded - Media Molecule, PS4 The Last Guardian - Japan Studio, PS4 The Last of Us Remastered - Naughty Dog, PS4 The Last of Us: Left Behind - Naughty Dog, PS4 Until Dawn - Supermassive Games, PS4 Uncharted The Nathan Drake Collection - Naughty Dog, PS4 Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End - Naughty Dog, PS4 Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - Naughty Dog, PS4 WipEout Omega Collection - Clever Beans & Creative Vault Studios, PS4
Third Party-Partners
Ashen - Annapurna Interactive,PS4 Assassin’s Creed Valhalla - Ubisoft, PS4/PS5 Celeste - Maddy Makes Games, PS4 Cities: Skylines - Paradox Interactive, PS4 Control: Ultimate Edition - 505 Games, PS4/PS5 Dead Cells - Motion Twin, PS4 Final Fantasy 15 Royal Edition - Square Enix Co. LTD, PS4 Hollow Knight - Team Cherry, PS4 Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy - Square Enix Co. LTD., PS4/PS5 Mortal Kombat 11 - WB Games, PS4/PS5 Narutoshippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 - Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., PS4 NBA 2K22 - 2K Games, PS4/PS5 Outer Wilds - Annapurna Interactive, PS4 Red Dead Redemption 2 - Rockstar Games, PS4 Resident Evil - Capcom Co., Ltd, PS4 Soulcalibur 6 - Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., PS4 The Artful Escape - Annapurna Interactive, PS4/PS5 The Crew 2 - Ubisoft, PS4
Classic Games Catalogue
PlayStation Studios
Ape Escape - Japan Studio, Original Playstation Hot Shots Golf - Japan Studio, Original Playstation I.Q. Intelligent Qube - Japan Studio, Original PlayStation Jumping Flash! - Japan Studio, Original PlayStation Syphon Filter - Bend Studio, Original PlayStation Super Stardust Portable - Housemarque, PSP
Third Party Partners
Mr. Driller - Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., Original PlayStation Tekken 2 - Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc., Original PlayStation Worms World Party - Team 17, Original PlayStation Worms Armageddon - Team17, Original PlayStation
Classic Games Catalog - Remasters
PlayStation Studios
Ape Escape 2 - Japan Studio, PS4 Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits - Japan Studio, PS4 Dark Cloud - Japan Studio, PS4 Dark Cloud 2 - Japan Studio, PS4 FantaVision - SIE, PS4 Hot Shots Tennis - Japan Studio, PS4 Jak 2 - Naughty Dog, PS4 Jak 3 - Naughty Dog, PS4 Jak X: Combat Racing - Naughty Dog, PS4 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy - Naughty Dog, PS4 Rogue Galaxy - Japan Studio, PS4 Siren - Japan Studio, PS4 Wild Arms 3 - SIE, PS4
Third Party Partners
Baja: Edge of Control HD - THQ Nordic, PS4 Bioshock Remastered - 2K Games, PS4 Borderlands The Handsome Collection - 2K Games, PS4 Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition - Gearbox Publishing, PS4 Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning - THQ Nordic, PS4 Lego Harry Potter Collection - WB Games, PS4
Original PS3 Games (via streaming)
PlayStation Studios
Crash Commando - Creative Vault Studios, PS3 Demon’s Souls - From Software, PS3 echochrome - Japan Studio, PS3 Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds - Japan Studio, PS3 Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational - Japan Studio, PS3 Ico - Japan Studio, PS3 Infamous - Sucker Punch, PS3 Infamous 2 - Sucker Punch, PS3 Infamous: Festival of Blood - Sucker Punch, PS3 LocoRoco Cocoreccho! - Japan Studio, PS3 MotorStorm Apocalypse - Evolution Studios, PS3 MotorStorm RC - Evolution Studios, PS3 Puppeteer - Japan Studio, PS3 rain - Japan Studio, PS3 Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty - Insomniac Games, PS3 Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time - Insomniac Games, PS3 Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus - Insomniac Games, PS3 Resistance 3 - Insomniac Games, PS3 Super Stardust HD - Housemarque, PS3 Tokyo Jungle - Japan Studio, PS3 When Vikings Attack - Clever Beans, PS3
Third Party Partners
Asura’s Wrath - Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - Konami, PS3 Devil May Cry HD Collection - Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3 Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc., PS3 F.E.A.R. - WB Games, PS3 Lost Planet 2 - Capcom Co., Ltd., PS3 Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 - Koei Tecmo, PS3 Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare - Rockstar Games, PS3
Time-Limited Game Trials
PlayStation Studios
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection - Naughty Dog, PS5 Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games, PS4/PS5
Third Party Partners
Cyberpunk 2077 - CD Projekt, PS5 Farming Simulator 22 - Giants Software GmBH, PS4/PS5 Tiny Tina’s Wonderland - 2K Games, PS4/PS5 WWE 2K22 - 2K Games, PS4/PS5
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