PS Plus April 2026: Every Game Added This Month — Essential, Extra, and Premium

April's PlayStation Plus catalog is fully live across all tiers, giving subscribers a new batch of free-to-keep games and catalog additions to explore. Here's every game available right now, broken down by tier, and an honest take on what's worth your time.

PS Plus Essential — Free to Keep Until May 5

All PlayStation Plus subscribers regardless of tier can claim these three games now. Once claimed, they're yours as long as you maintain your subscription.

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream The most recent entry in Bandai Namco's long-running SAO game series, Fractured Daydream is a crossover action RPG that pulls characters from across the anime's various arcs into a unified narrative. If you've followed the franchise, it's a fan service-heavy adventure with solid combat. If you haven't, it's less compelling as a standalone entry, but still a complete game.

Lords of the Fallen CI Games' 2023 Soulslike reboot took two years to fully recover from its troubled launch but has since patched into a genuinely solid experience. The dual-realm mechanic — which lets you view and interact with both the living world and the realm of the dead simultaneously — remains one of the most original ideas in the Soulslike genre. A worthwhile pick-up for fans of challenging action RPGs who haven't tried it yet.

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered Three classic Lara Croft adventures in remastered form, featuring the ability to switch between original and updated visuals on the fly. For anyone who grew up with the PS1 originals, this is a compelling nostalgia hit. For newer players, the original game design philosophy (pre-tank controls abandonment) takes adjustment, but the games hold up as atmospheric platformer-puzzlers.

PS Plus Extra and Premium — New Catalog Games

Available to download and play for as long as you maintain Extra or Premium subscription. These do not require individual claiming.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered — The headliner. Guerrilla's ground-up visual upgrade of the original open-world machine-hunting RPG runs at full PS5 capabilities with improved textures, character models, and performance. If you played Zero Dawn in 2017 and want to revisit it, this is the version. If you somehow haven't played it at all — and millions of PS5 owners bought their console after it was a launch title — this is an essential addition to any library.

The Crew Motorfest — Ubisoft's open-world racer set in Hawaii arrived to mixed-but-decent reviews when it launched in 2023. It's a competent alternative for PS5 players without access to Forza Horizon 6 (which is currently Xbox-exclusive but confirmed for PS5 later in 2026). Not a replacement for Horizon, but a solid racing game with a strong car roster.

Football Manager 26 Console — SI Games' annual management sim is genuinely one of the most time-consuming games ever made, and the console version has improved dramatically in recent years. If you have any interest in football management games, Extra access to FM26 is exceptional value.

WARRIORS: Abyss — Omega Force's roguelite Warriors spinoff takes the franchise's button-mashing combat and applies a death-and-upgrade structure that adds genuine longevity to the formula. A good pick-up for musou fans.

Squirrel with a Gun — The 2024 indie phenomenon where you play as a squirrel that finds a gun and uses it for various escalating purposes has finally landed on PS Plus. Short, weird, and genuinely funny. Play it with thirty minutes free and a good mood.

The Casting of Frank Stone — The Dead by Daylight universe expands into a narrative adventure from Supermassive Games, the studio behind The Quarry and Until Dawn. Choice-driven horror with the franchise's signature ensemble-cast structure.

Monster Train — The card-building roguelike that many players consider one of the best examples of the genre alongside Slay the Spire. If you haven't played it, it's exceptional. Deep, replayable, and endlessly surprising in its build variety.

PS Plus Premium — Classic Games

Wild Arms 4 — The fourth entry in Sony's JRPG franchise from the PS2 era joins the Premium classics library. A divisive entry in the series due to its combat overhaul, but worth exploring for fans of older JRPGs.

The Community Verdict

Reception to April's lineup has been mixed. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is a genuine quality addition, but some subscribers note it's a returning title — players who already own it from PS Plus in previous years aren't getting value from the re-addition. The push to one classic per month (down from two) has also drawn criticism from Premium subscribers.

Still: Monster Train alone justifies an hour of your time to try, Squirrel with a Gun is a free twenty-minute palate cleanser, and Lords of the Fallen has genuinely improved from its troubled launch into something that deserves more attention.

All PS Plus Essential games are claimable now until May 5. Extra and Premium catalog games are available until future removal.

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