PlayStation Plus games list, price and PS Plus Essential, Extra and Premium tiers explained

by admin October 12, 2022

PlayStation Plus is Sony's monthly subscription service that is required for online play on PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles.

It is split into three tiers, with an Essential plan offering a handul of free games each month, as well as great discounts on games bought through the PlayStation Store.

Two additional tiers - Extra and Premium - are also available. They include additional access to 100s of PS4 and PS5 games (similar to Xbox Game Pass), plus classic games from throughout PlayStation's history.

Here's everything you need to know about PS Plus, including how much each tier costs and all the benefits.

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What is PS Plus?

PlayStation Plus is a monthly subscription service that enables online, multiplayer play for PS4 and PS5 games.

It is required to play the vast majority of games online - only some free-to-play titles are exempt.

It started many years ago, with the service launching for PlayStation 3 initially. It was also available for PS Vita users, but both consoles have long since been discontinued and PS Plus is no longer active on either.

As well as online play, it includes cloud storage for save games, discounts, access to early trials of games, and a few other benefits.

There are three separate tiers - Essential, Extra and Premium - with each including increasingly impressive add-ons. You can read more about them below.

What is PS Plus Extra / Premium and are they available now?

Available in Japan and many other Asian countries, plus the Americas, the UK and Europe, PS Plus has recently split into three different tiers: PlayStation Plus Essential, PlayStation Plus Extra, and PlayStation Plus Premium.

PS Plus Essential offers the same benefits to the previous standard PS Plus service, while Extra and Premium each add 100s of free games delivered either over the cloud (replacing PS Now) or downloadable.

How much does PlayStation Plus cost?

PlayStation Plus starts at £6.99 / $9.99 / €8.99 per month, but as you get more benefits with each higher tier, so too does the price increase. Here are the prices for the three different options.

PS Plus Essential

The standard tier of PS Plus can be paid for monthly, quarterly or annually.

Monthly membership costs £6.99 / $9.99 / €8.99. It is £19.99 / $24.99 / €24.99 for 3-months, or you can pay for 12-months upfront for £49.99 / $59.99 / €59.99.

You can sign up for PS Plus Essential either through your console or the PlayStation Store online. Physical vouchers have been discontinued.

PS Plus Extra

PS Plus Extra is now available in multiple locations (see region details above). It includes all the benefits of the standard plan plus access to a catalogue of up to 400 PS4 and PS5 games to play at no extra cost.

It is priced at £10.99 / $14.99 / €13.99 per month, £31.99 / $39.99 / €39.99 for 3-months, or £83.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 if paid for yearly.

PS Plus Premium

The highest tier, PS Plus Premium, incorporates all of the benefits of Essential and Extra, then adds up to 340 additional games on top, from the back catalogue of PS3, PS2, PSP and even original PlayStation games - often via cloud streaming. There are also time-limited trials in this tier.

It costs £13.49 / $17.99 / €16.99 per month, £39.99 / $49.99 / €49.99 for 3-months, or £99.99 / $119.99 / €119.99 if paid for yearly.

PS Plus Deluxe

An additional tier is available in markets that do not offer cloud gaming as an alternative to Premium. PS Plus Deluxe is cheaper than Premium - you should check your regional PlayStation Store for pricing, where applicable.

What does PS Plus membership include?

There are a number of benefits included with PS Plus membership. You can read about each blow.

Online play

A PlayStation Plus tier is a requirement for PS4 and PS5 gamers to play each other online. Only some free-to-play games are exempt - the vast majority will only give you access to online multiplayer if you have an active PS Plus subscription.

Free games

Each month, two or three PS4/PS5 games are made available to download and play at no extra cost. They are yours to keep as long as you remain a PS Plus member. You can see the latest free games here.

Exclusive discounts

PS Plus members get exclusive discounts on many digital download games on the PlayStation Store. Traditionally, there are also added discounts for members on sale games during major sales periods.

Cloud storage

All PS Plus members, no matter the tier, get 100GB of cloud storage for save games, so even if you lose your save data stored on a PS4 or PS5, you will be able to recover it later.

Also, if you own a second console and want to carry on playing the same game, you can transfer save games from machine to machine.

PlayStation Plus Collection

Unique to the PlayStation 5, the PS Plus Collection comprises 19 first and third-party PS4 games to download and play through backward compatibility. Some, including Days Gone, even feature enhancements, such as 60fps and native 4K resolution.

They are available at no extra cost to PS5 owners with PS Plus.

PlayStation Plus Collection game list

Here are the games available in the PlayStation Plus Collection (as of 12 October 2022):

Batman: Arkham Knight
Battlefield 1
Bloodborne
Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Zombies Chronicles Edition
Crash Banidcoot N. Sane Trilogy
Days Gone
Detroit: Become Human
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
God of War
Infamous Second Son
Monster Hunter World
Mortal Kombat X
Ratchet & Clank
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
The Last Guardian
The Last of Us Remastered
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
Until Dawn

Up to 400 downloadable games (PS Plus Extra and Premium only)

Subscribers to the new PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers gain access to a library of up to 400 PS4 and PS5 games from Sony and third-parties. These are available to download and play as long as you subscribe to the relevant tiers. You can see the current list of titles available below.

Classic games (PS Plus Premium only)

Premium tier members gain access to an additional library of classic PS3, PS2, PlayStation and PSP games that are available to download or stream. You can also see the current list of titles available below.

Cloud gaming (PS Plus Premium only)

Games offered in the Extra benefit are also available via cloud streaming to Premium members. That means you won't have to download them to play. It uses Sony's PS Now technology, with that service now merged into PS Plus.

Time-limited game trials (PS Plus Premium only)

Premium subscribers gain access to time-limited trials of games so you can try them before you buy.

PS Plus Extra and Premium games list (as of 12 October 2022)

With PS Plus Extra and Premium having launched in Asia and the Americas at the start of June, we have a list of all the games currently available to Extra and Premium subscribers.

The following games are the titles currently available PS Plus Extra / Premium members in the UK (other regions may differ slightly).

All the main catalogue PlayStation 4 and PS5 games available as part of PS Plus Extra and Premium (all games are PS4 versions unless indicated - some require PSVR):

2Dark
8-Bit Armies
9 Monkeys of Shaolin
Absolver Downfall
Abzu
Age of Seafood
Adrift
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Agents of Mayhem
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX (PS4 / PS5)
Alienation
AO Tennis 2
Aragami
Ashen
Ash of Gods: Redemption
Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection
Assassin's Creed III Remastered - coming 18 October 2022
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China - coming 18 October 2022
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India - coming 18 October 2022
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia - coming 18 October 2022
Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry
Assassin's Creed Odyssey - coming 18 October 2022
Assassin's Creed Origins
Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered
Assassin's Creed Syndicate - coming 18 October 2022
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (PS4 / PS5)
Assetto Corsa Competizione (PS4 / PS5)
Astebreed
A Velocibox Ultimate Bundle
AVICII Invector
Bad North
Balan Wonderworld (PS4 / PS5)
Batman: Arkham Knight
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Bee Simulator
Black Mirror
Blasphemous

Bloodborne
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Bomber Crew
Bound
Bound by Flame
Brawlout
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back
Caladrius Blaze
Call of Cthulhu
Carmageddon: Max Damage
Car Mechanic Simulator
Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers
Celeste
Chess Ultra
Chicken Police - Paint it Red!
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Child of Light
Children of Morta
Chronos: Before the Ashes
Cities: Skylines
Clouds & Sheep 2
Concrete Genie
ConnecTank
Control: Ultimate Edition (PS4 / PS5)
Cris Tales
Croxieur Sigma
Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo HD Edition
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
Dangerous Golf
Danger Zone
Darksiders Genesis
Darksiders III
Days Gone
DCL- The Game
Dead Cells
Dead of Alive 5 Last Round
Death and re:Quest
Death and re:Quest 2
Death Squared
Death Stranding

Death Stranding: Director's Cut (PS5)
Deathloop (PS5)
Defense Grid 2
Demon's Souls (PS5)
Descenders
Desperados III
Destruction Allstars (PS5)
Detroit: Become Human
Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengence
Doom (2016)
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition - coming 18 October 2022
Dragon Quest Builders - coming 18 October 2022
Dragon Quest Builders 2 - coming 18 October 2022
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below - coming 18 October 2022
Dragon Quest Heroes II: Explorer's Edition - coming 18 October 2022
Dragon Star Varnir
Dungeons 2
Dynasty Warriors 8 Empires
Eagle Flight (PSVR)
Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair
Electronic Super Joy
Elex
El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Embr
Empire of Sin
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
Enter the Gungeon
Entwined
Everybody’s Golf
Fade to Silence
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Fary Cry 3 Classic Edition
Far Cry 4
FIA European Truck Racing Championship
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (PS5)
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Fluster Cluck
Foreclosed (PS4 / PS5)
For Honor
For the King
Friday the 13th: The Game
Frost Punk
Fury Unleashed
Gabbuchi
Gal*Gunvolt Burst
Get Even
Ghost of a Tale
Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut (PS4 / PS5)
Ghostrunner (PS4 / PS5)
Gianna Sisters: Twisted Dreams

God of War
Gods Will Fall
Golf with Your Friends
Goosebumps The Game
Grand Ages: Medieval
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - The Definitive Edition (PS4 / PS5) - coming 18 October 2022
Graveyard Keeper
Gravity Rush 2
GreedFall (PS4 / PS5)
Grip
Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger IX
Hello Neighbor
Hohokum - coming 18 October 0222
Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition
Homefront: The Revolution
Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Hotshot Racing
How to Survive 2
How to Survive: Storm Warning Edition
Hue
Human Fall Flat (PS4 / PS5)
I am Bread
I am Dead (PS4 / PS5)
Indivisible
InFamous First Light
InFamous Second Son
Infinite Minigolf
Injustice 2
Inside - coming 18 October 2022
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf
John WIck Hex
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Journey to the Savage Planet
KeyWe
Killzone Shadow Fall
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Kingdom New Lands
Kingdom Two Crowns
Knack
Kona (PS4 / PS5)
Last Day of June
Last Stop (PS4 / PS5)
Lawn Mowing Simulator (PS4 / PS5)
Legends of Eternal
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham
Leo's Fortune
LittleBigPlanet 3
Little Big Workshop
Little Nightmares
Lost Words: Beyond the Page