PlayStation Plus Extra is dropping eight games on Tuesday, May 19th, and the list includes some genuinely worthwhile titles – Control: Ultimate Edition, Sand Land, both versions of Mortal Shell, and three others are all gone next week. As reported by Push Square, subscribers have until this weekend to get time in before the rotation wipes them from the catalog.
Here’s the full list of departing titles:
- MotoGP 25 (PS5, PS4)
- Sand Land (PS5, PS4)
- Soul Hackers 2 (PS5, PS4)
- Mortal Shell (PS4)
- Mortal Shell: Enhanced Edition (PS5)
- Control: Ultimate Edition (PS5)
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (PS4)
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope (PS5, PS4)
Control: Ultimate Edition is comfortably the headline loss here – Remedy’s genre-bending third-person action game remains one of the best PS Plus catalog additions in recent memory, and if you haven’t touched it yet, this is genuinely the last easy chance. Fair warning: it’s not a short game, so treat the next few days as a hard demo rather than a full run if you’re starting from scratch.
The two Dark Pictures entries – Man of Medan and Little Hope – are actually realistic completions before Tuesday. Both are cinematic horror games in the three-to-four hour range, built for a single sitting or a co-op session. Don’t sleep on those. Mortal Shell and its Enhanced Edition are worth flagging for souls-adjacent fans who missed them the first time around – cold, deliberate, and distinctly unforgiving, but rewarding if that’s your thing.
Soul Hackers 2 and Sand Land round out the eight. Both are solid but time-heavy – Soul Hackers 2 is a full JRPG, Sand Land an action-RPG based on the Akira Toriyama manga. Realistically, you’re sampling those rather than finishing them.
All eight titles leave PS Plus Extra on Tuesday, May 19th, 2026. Once they’re gone, you’ll need to purchase them separately to keep playing – Sony hasn’t announced any subscriber discount window tied to this removal wave. Downloads already in progress before the cutoff won’t carry over without an active subscription.
Here’s the real read, though – eight departures in a single month is right in line with the steady churn Sony has maintained since the revamped service launched in mid-2022, with most third-party titles cycling out after roughly 12 to 18 months. It’s worth checking what’s arriving to replace them: the May 2026 PS Plus Game Catalog additions include some genuinely strong replacements, and the May Essential free games are already live to claim right now.
Which of these eight are you rushing to finish before Tuesday – or does Control leaving finally push you toward just buying it outright? Sound off in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more breaking gaming news and PlayStation Plus coverage.
