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PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for May 2025 Announced

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for May 2025 Announced - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 May 2025 / 2,278 Views

Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed the PlayStation Plus monthly games for April 2025. The games will be available starting on Tuesday, May 6 until Monday, June 2.

The PlayStation Plus monthly games are Ark: Survival Ascended for the PS5, Balatro for the PS5 and PS4, and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun for the PS5 and PS4.

Read details on the games below:

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.

Balatro | PS5, PS4 

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.

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun | PS5, PS4 

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!


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Bluesky.


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5 Comments
BraLoD (on 30 April 2025)

Balatro? Saved me a purchase, lol.

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HopeMillsHorror (on 30 April 2025)

All good games but I already played Boltgun and Ark on GP and Balatro on my phone

Good month for anyone that doesn't already have these

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Leynos (on 30 April 2025)

Boltgun is a great Doom Shooter FPS.

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The Fury Leynos (on 30 April 2025)

How does it compare to Prodeus, if you know? I tried that and got a decent way but something wasn't sitting with me on it. Presume Boltgun being in 40K adds at least more narrative?

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Leynos The Fury (on 30 April 2025)

Not a lot of narrative really but does take place after Space Marine 1. Prodeus is a mix of old and new. This feels more old school. A lot more enemy variety and you do have a melee with the chainsword.

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