PS Plus subscribers bemoan games leaving in May 2025 as 25 big departures confirmed
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April has been a good and bad month for PS Plus. The good was that the Essential games were excellent with the likes of RoboCop Rogue City, and Extra also received the day-one release of the magnificent Blue Prince. However, on the flip side, Sony delivered a storm of price increases across many countries and regions, leading payers to claim they are “cancelling”. While we don’t know what additions will arrive next month, the games leaving PS Plus in May 2025 have now been confirmed, and there are 25 upcoming departures in total for Essential, Extra, and Premium combined.
Games leaving PS Plus in May 2025
Below is a list of all 22 known games leaving PS Plus Extra and Premium on May 20th, 2025, as per PushSquare:
Grand Theft Auto V (PS5, PS4)
MotoGP 24 (PS5, PS4)
The Sims 4: Island Living (PS4)
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3) — Premium
Resistance 2 (PS3) — Premium
Walkabout Mini Golf (PS5) — Premium
Synth Riders (PSVR2) — Premium
Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (PSVR2) — Premium
Before Your Eyes (PSVR2) — Premium
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (PSVR2) — Premium
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution (PSVR2) — Premium
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 (PS4)
Stranded: Alien Dawn (PS5, PS4)
The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame (PS5)
Ghostrunner (PS5, PS4)
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition (PS4)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4)
Journey to the Savage Planet (PS5, PS4)
Portal Knights (PS4)
Enter the Gungeon (PS4)
Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4)
inFAMOUS: Second Son (PS4)
In addition to the above departures for Extra and Premium, don’t forget the following three games will leave Essential on May 6th:
RoboCop Rogue City
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory
As you can see from the above lists, there’s a lot of great games set to leave Extra and Premium. Responding to the confirmed departures, a lot of subscribers on Reddit are not very happy.
The first echoed complaint is about first-party games leaving the subscription service with InFamous Second Son and the Resistance series. As stated by one user, “These are Sony-owned games. It costs them literally nothing to keep them on PS+”.
Another complaint is about the assortment of VR games leaving Premium. There is already a shallow catalogue of games for the PSVR2, and “losing that many VR2 titles all at once [feels like] a kick in the nuts”.
There’s also the understandable complaint that 22 games are leaving Extra and Premium, and we’re only likely to get eight or so additions in May. As pointed out by one user, “This sucks, losing 22 games, getting only 8 new games and they will raise the price of the subscription after this month”.
Lastly, some of the complaints stem from the PS Plus price increases, along with its value looking worse compared to Xbox Game Pass. This comparison is especially brutal right now as, although Microsoft subscribers regularly receive day-one releases, they have just recently been gifted two juggernauts in the Oblivion remaster and the highest rated game of 2025 so far, Clair Obscur Expedition 33.
Again, the current ensemble of Essential games will leave on May 6th, meanwhile, the Extra and Premium departures will set sail on May 20th. Hopefully Sony has some good additions planned as right now subscribers are miffed and supposedly planning to not renew their memberships.
In other PlayStation news, the release time for Days Gone Remastered is imminent, and the release date for Ghost of Yotei has been announced with stunning pre-order bonuses.
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