Sony Interactive Entertainment has released August 2025’s first PlayStation Plus games.
This month’s PlayStation Plus Essential titlesare dark fantasy action gameLies of P(PS5,PS4), survival game Day Z (PS4), and 3D arena fighter My Hero One’s Justice 2 (PS4).
Day Z and My Hero One’s Justice 2 are PS4 games, but PS5 players can play them via backwards compatibility.
Sonyhas announcedplans to shift away from providing PS4 gamesas part of its monthlyPlayStationPlus line-up.
“As we shift to PS5, PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit and will only be occasionally offered for PlayStation Plus Monthly Games and Game Catalog starting January 2026,” Adam Michel, global content director for PlayStation subscription services, said earlier this year. “We may still provide titles that can be playable on both PS4 and PS5 consoles after this date.”
And PlayStation’s policy of not releasing its first-party games on PlayStation Plus on the day of the releasewill continue, according to Nick Maguire, PlayStation‘s vice president of global services.
“We’ve sort of stayed true to our strategy across the board, where we’re not looking to put games in day and date,” he toldGame Filein June.
“Our strategy of finding four or five independent day-and-date titles – and using that to complement our strategy of bringing games in when they’re 12, 18 months old or older – that balance for us is working really well across the platform.”
