PlayStation Plus Free Games September 2026: Predictions, Rumors, Leaks And More

What to expect from adjacent month's PlayStation Plus lineup.

Credit: Erik Kain

September is almost present and pinch it different slate of free PS Plus games for Sony fans. We’ve had immoderate value lineups crossed 2026, truthful hopefully that inclination continues and September’s PS Plus Essential Games are keepers.

You person a week near to snag August’s PS Plus Essential games: Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Signalis (a PS4 title) and the deed indie game, Big Walk (with a 93 Metacritic score, making it 1 of the best-reviewed games of the twelvemonth erstwhile it comes to PS Plus freebies). Despite this being a beautiful bully month, plentifulness of PS Plus subscribers were unhappy pinch the offerings, but that’s existent of beautiful overmuch each month.

August has been a bully period for PS Plus subscribers. On August 18, Vampire Survivors, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams came to PS Plus Extra. On August 25, PS Plus Extra subscribers get Hell is Us, Umamusume Pretty Derby: Party Dash, Two Point Museum, Metro Exodus, and, arsenic luck would person it, Dying Light 2.

For the purposes of this post, we’ll beryllium focusing connected September’s 3 Essential games including leaks, rumors, uncover time, merchandise day and more.

When Will Sony Reveal September’s PS Plus Games Lineup?

Sony typically reveals the upcoming PS Plus Essential lineup connected the past Wednesday of the period and releases the caller games connected the first Tuesday of the coming month. That’s not ever the case, but it’s a bully norm of thumb.

This intends that September's PS Plus Essential games get announced August 26 and spell unrecorded September 1, pinch Extra and Premium’s first activity revealed September 9 and dropping connected September 15.

This intends there’s only a six-day spread betwixt the uncover and the drop, because September 1 is itself the first Tuesday of the month. It besides intends August's Dying Light 2, Big Walk, and Signalis — each very overmuch worthy downloading if you’re a PS Plus subscriber — expire August 31. Don’t slumber connected these games!

PS Plus September 2026 Leaks, Rumors And Predictions

No September PS Plus Leaks Yet

So acold location person been nary reliable leaks for September's PS Plus lineup. If 1 arrives, it'll almost surely travel from billbil-kun astatine Dealabs, who has been the astir meticulous PS Plus leaker going for years now and who typically posts the month's header title anyplace from 1 to 7 days earlier Sony's reveal. That gives america a constrictive window: the charismatic announcement is expected Wednesday, August 26, though Sony jumped a time early past period truthful it’s ever imaginable the uncover could travel sooner.

We tin besides look astatine what’s coming retired to spot if we tin glean immoderate clues, but present again we travel up mostly dry. No video games look to beryllium releasing connected September 1, but Trine 6 comes retired connected September 17 and I’ve had Trine 5 connected my wishlist for sometime now. That’s something!

If we look backmost astatine erstwhile years, past September releases are besides very small help.

Previous September PS Plus Essential Lineups

Looking backmost astatine the PS Plus September lineup complete the past 7 years, it’s difficult to really travel up pinch immoderate coherent theme. Here’s what we’ve gotten since 2019:

2019 — Batman: Arkham Knight, Darksiders III

2020 — PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Street Fighter V

2021 — Overcooked! All You Can Eat, Predator: Hunting Grounds, Hitman 2

2022 — Granblue Fantasy: Versus, Need For Speed Heat, Toem

2023 — Saints Row (2022), Black Desert Traveler Edition, Generation Zero

2024 — Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, MLB The Show 24, Little Nightmares II

2025 — Psychonauts 2, Stardew Valley, Viewfinder

Basically, there’s nary telling what September will bring. Sometimes we get scary games (a small early for Halloween) and the occasional sports title. Some indie stuff. A mates of racing games. It’s really an thing goes!

A raft of PS Plus Extra games (and a mates Premium) titles will time off the work successful mid-September, including: Persona 5 Tactica, Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun Hong Kong: Extended Edition, Shadowrun Dragonfall: Director's Cut, Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII, Toukiden 2, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, EA Sports Madden NFL 26, and — connected Premium — Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue and Toy Story 3.

It’s improbable that immoderate of these will travel to Essential the aforesaid period they time off Extra aliases Premium, but we could get thing to capable the void — a JRPG perhaps.

My 3 Predictions For September PS Plus

Spider-Man 2 — The headliner for September riding connected the coattails of the monolithic occurrence of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. It’s a celebrated crippled and there’s nary amended clip than striking while the robust is hot. Besides, the caller Wolverine game comes retired successful September, truthful this would beryllium a pleasant pairing.

Trine 5 — The indie title of the list. The small guy, but a awesome nosy co-op imagination crippled you tin play pinch friends. Might beryllium excessively soon to the adjacent game’s release, however. But I want an indie title successful my predictions trio and this is what I’m going with!

Stellar Blade — Shift Up is moving connected the sequel, Blood Rain, and there’s nary amended measurement to thrust a small hype than pinch a free PS Plus merchandise of the original action game. Of course, the sequel is still a agelong ways out, but Stellar Blade has been retired agelong capable to make consciousness connected PS Plus regardless.

Now, onto the wishlist!

PS Plus September 2026 PS Plus Wishlist

Some of these are much apt candidates than others and immoderate of these are rather evidently conscionable wishful thinking. Most of these stay from past prediction lists, since they haven’t been picked yet!

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered — This is simply a modern classical open-world escapade crippled astir fighting elephantine robotic dinosaurs successful a post-apocalyptic future. It seems for illustration the cleanable campaigner for a PS Plus title, since the remaster came retired 2 years ago.

Atomfall — The first-person survival-action crippled group successful an alternate-history 1960s Britain aft a atomic disaster is simply a apical prime for a batch PS Plus hopefuls. It only released successful early 2025, however, truthful it’s beautiful caller for a PS Plus inclusion. Then again, we’ve seen quicker turnarounds (Dragon Age: The Veilguard for instance).

Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition — Two reasons for this. One, there’s an Anniversary Edition retired and the 2nd play of Amazon’s fantabulous Fallout series has renewed liking successful the series.

Dispatch — An absolutely awesome interactive movie style superhero game that blends gorgeous animation and unthinkable penning and acting pinch a nosy superhero guidance sim.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance — The fantabulous Medieval RPG is galore years aged now, and the sequel conscionable came out. Why not merchandise the original connected PS Plus? Well...I conjecture because it was a PS4-era game. But they could merchandise the sequel!

Blue Prince — One of my favourite games of 2025, this would make a awesome indie title to spell pinch immoderate bigger releases. What an absolute gem.

Resident Evil 4 Remake — The remake of the celebrated action-horror crippled from 2005 was released successful 2023 to wide acclaim. It’s aged capable to beryllium a contender for a PS Plus merchandise and would decidedly beryllium a crowd-pleaser.

Elden Ring — FromSoftware’s mega-hit action-RPG would beryllium a immense triumph for Sony and PlayStation Plus gamers. Even Demon’s Souls Remake would beryllium a monolithic win, though I put some of these successful the “wishful thinking” column. Still, Elden Ring might make consciousness fixed the caller merchandise of the standalone multiplayer spinoff Nightreign.

Star Wars Outlaws — Ubisoft’s open-world Star Wars game wasn’t the deed they needed, but it’s still a beautiful nosy measurement to caput to a postulation far, acold distant and swipe shoulders pinch scum and villainy. It would make a really cleanable PS Plus release.

Death Stranding — Hideo Kojima’s weirdest crippled was a large capable deed to committee a sequel and that sequel conscionable came retired successful 2025. Makes consciousness to get the original onto PS Plus astatine immoderate point, if only to thrust much group to the newer (and much expensive) sequel.

Street Fighter 6 — The celebrated fighting crippled franchise continues to beryllium a crowd-pleaser, and releasing this 2023 crippled connected PS Plus would beryllium nosy contempt getting a fighting crippled past month. That makes maine doubtful we’ll spot this one, but I’d play it if Sony put it retired there.

Squirrel pinch a Gun — As the title indicates, this is simply a small crippled wherever you play arsenic a squirrel pinch a gun. It’s the benignant of indie title that often accompanies bigger, AAA releases successful a PS Plus lineup.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage — Releasing a free Assassin’s Creed game makes consciousness pinch the Black Flag remake connected the horizon. Get group excited astir the re-release. It’s already been added to Extra and Premium, of course.

(Prediction Now!) Trine 5 — I utilized to perfectly emotion the Trine games. I retrieve playing them pinch my kids erstwhile they were little. The gorgeous artwork successful those games positive the sofa co-op conscionable made them specified a delight. Then I forgot astir them, and I really ne'er did play the 5th game. I’d emotion to, though. It would beryllium ace nostalgic for the full family. Here’s hoping!

All The PS Plus Essential Games Released In 2026

Here’s what we’ve nabbed truthful far.

January 2026

• Need for Speed Unbound
• Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed
• Core Keeper

February 2026

• Undisputed
• Subnautica: Below Zero
• Ultros
• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

March 2026

• PGA Tour 2K25
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Slime Rancher 2
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road Collection

April 2026

• Lords of the Fallen
• Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered
• Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream

May 2026

• EA Sports FC 26
• Nine Sols
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers

June 2026

• Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

July 2026

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
• For the King II
• CrossCode

August 2026

• Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition (PS4, PS5)
• Big Walk (PS5, time one)
• Signalis (PS4)

PS Plus Current Pricing

US PlayStation Plus pricing arsenic of now:

• Essential — $10.99/month, $27.99/quarter, $79.99/year
• Extra — $16.99/month, $43.99/quarter, $134.99/year
• Premium — $19.99/month, $54.99/quarter, $159.99/year

PS Plus pricing went up earlier this year. Sony announced the summation connected May 18, 2026, effective for caller customers from May 20 — Essential, Extra and Premium climbed to $10.99, $16.99 and $19.99 monthly, pinch the three-month options rising to $27.99, $43.99 and $54.99.

Interestingly, yearly plans were not raised, holding astatine $79.99, $134.99 and $159.99, and stay astatine their pre-hike rates arsenic of August 2026. This is simply a departure from the September 2023 value hike, which jacked up some yearly and monthly prices astatine the aforesaid time.

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