PlayStation has confirmed the games for May 2025 for PS Plus Essential. The games are ARK Survival Ascended, Balatro, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. You can claim these games on Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. This is also your last chance to grab the April Essential games. These are RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth. You have until Monday, May 5th to claim these.
ARK Survival Ascended – PS5
Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain?
Your new world awaits in this survival sim, reimagined from the ground-up with Unreal Engine 5, with high-end graphic features, advanced physics systems and quality of life revamps in every area.
Ark: Survival Ascended includes access to all of Ark’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Ark Genesis Part 1, Ark Genesis Part 2, and more.
The game supports public online multiplayer for up to 70 players, private-session multiplayer for up to 8 players, and local split-screen for 2 players.
ARK Survival Ascendedhas 32 trophies for you to unlock, including a platinum. This game would cost £39.99 and is rated a 3.71 out of 5 starts on the PlayStation Store.
Balatro – PS4 | PS5
In this poker-inspired roguelike deck builder, it’s all creating powerful synergies and winning big. Play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers and trigger outrageous combos in this roguelike strategy experience. Combine valid poker hands with unique joker cards in order to create varied synergies and builds. Earn enough chips to beat devious blinds, all while uncovering hidden bonus hands and decks as you progress. You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory. Balatro has 32 trophies for you to unlock, including a platinum. This game would cost £12.99 and is rated a 4.82 out of 5 starts on the PlayStation Store.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – PS4 | PS5
Load up your Boltgun and plunge into battle headfirst!
Experience a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000! classic, frenetic FPS gameplay and the stylish visuals of your favourite 90’s retro shooters.
Play a battle-hardened Space Marine on a perilous mission across the galaxy, as they battle against the Chaos Space Marines and daemons of Chaos.
In glorious boomer shooter style, unleash your devastating Space Marine arsenal as you blast through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood. Run, jump and charge across huge levels to shoot, shred and slice the worst heretics across the galaxy!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgunhas 12 trophies for you to unlock, but it doesn’t seem like it has a platinum trophy. This game would cost £17.99 and is rated a 4.66 out of 5 starts on the PlayStation Store.
The above games will be available for those on the essential tier and above. You can view more about this on the official PlayStation blog. You can also read some more of our news here. Let us know in the comments if you’ll be playing or have played any of the above games on your consoles.
