The PS Plus Essential lineup for the month of May, 2025, has been revealed, and it features Playstack and LocalThunk’s Balatro, and more.
The PlayStation Blog has officially announced the lineup of monthly and classic titles that are set to be available to PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium subscribers in the month of May. The games will be available for download starting Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
PS Plus Essential May 2025 Lineup
The monthly games that are available for Essential, Extra, and Premium tier subscribers in the month of May, 2025 are as follows:
- Ark: Survival Ascended | PS5
- Balatro | PS5, PS4
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun | PS5, PS4
The latest additions to PS Plus Essential will be available to subscribers starting from Tuesday, May 6, 2025, up until Monday, June 2, 2025. PlayStation Plus members have until Monday, May 5, 2024 to add the April, 2025, lineup i.e. RoboCop: Rogue City (PS5), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (PS4, PS5), and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory (PS4).
It’s worth noting that the above list of games is valid for European and North American regions. Some titles may differ depending on their availability elsewhere in the world.
Prominently featured in the PS Plus Essential lineup for May, 2025, is Balatro, a deck-building roguelike game with a poker theme, developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack. It launched on February 20, 2024, for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, followed by a macOS version on March 1. Mobile versions for Android and iOS became available on September 26, 2024. Players use traditional poker hands from a standard 52-card deck to earn points and overcome blinds within a set number of turns. As the game progresses, blinds become increasingly challenging, but players can obtain jokers and other cards, bought from a randomized shop between rounds, that introduce special effects, influence scoring, or modify the deck’s structure to gain a strategic edge.
