Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games in May 2025.
As revealed in a PlayStation blog post, PS Plus members can download Ark: Survival Ascended, Balatro, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun for free from May 6th to June 2nd.
It’s worth noting that it wasn’t on the list until dawn, which was rumored to be a May PS Plus game.
This is the official blurb for each game. Courtesy of Sony.
Ark: Survival Ascenden | PS5
Ready to tame, breed hundreds of dinosaurs and other primitive creatures, explore, craft, build and fight the path to the top of the food chain? Your new world awaits with this survival SIM. This is rethinking from the ground up with Unreal Engine 5, with improved quality of life in all areas, with high-end graphics capabilities, advanced physical systems and improved quality of life in all areas. Ark: Survival Ascended includes access to all Ark Worlds, including Burnt Earth, Anomaly, Extinction, Arc Genesis Part 1, Arc Genesis Part 2 and more. The game supports public online multiplayer with up to 70 players, private session multiplayer with up to 8 players, and local split screens with 2 players.
Baratoro | PS5, PS4
This poker-inspired Roguelike Deck Builder is all about creating powerful synergies and achieving great victory. Play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers and trigger outrageous combos with this roguelike strategy experience. Combine effective poker hands with unique joker cards to create a variety of synergies and builds. As you progress, you’ll get enough chips to beat the rogue blinds, all discovering hidden bonus hands and decks. You will need all the edges you can get to reach the blindness of your boss and defeat the final ante and safe victory.
Warhammer 40,000: Bolt Gun | PS5, PS4
Load your bolt gun and get closer to the fight! Experience the perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, classic, enthusiastic FPS gameplay and stylish visuals of your favorite 90s retro shooter. When fighting chaotic space marines and mixed-of-demons, they play Space Marines who endure battles on dangerous missions across the galaxy. The glorious Boomer Shooter Style unleashes catastrophic Space Marine weapons when exploding sprites, pixels and blood explosions. Run, jump, charge over giant levels, shoot, shred and slice the worst heretics across the galaxy!
meanwhile, 22 games will be pulled from the PlayStation Plus Library next monthinclude Grand Theft Auto 5, Payday 2: Crimewave Edition, and the final playable version of First-Party title Resistance: Human Fall and Resistance 2. As a result, resistance: human fall and resistance 2 disappear completely in modern consoles.
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