PlayStation Plus Extra and PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers, your May 2026 catalog drop is live right now – Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially added all eight titles to the service as of May 19th, with Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 headlining a month that’s genuinely difficult to argue with. Seven games land in PS Plus Extra across PS5 and PS4, while PS Plus Premium picks up a light-gun classic from the PSOne era. Everything is available to download right now – no waiting around.
- Star Wars Outlaws (PS5) – PS Plus Extra
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4) – PS Plus Extra
- Bramble: The Mountain King (PS5, PS4) – PS Plus Extra
- The Thaumaturge (PS5) – PS Plus Extra
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (PS5) – PS Plus Extra
- Broken Sword – Shadows of the Templar: Reforged (PS5, PS4) – PS Plus Extra
- Enotria: The Last Song Standard Edition (PS5) – PS Plus Extra
- Time Crisis (PSOne) – PS Plus Premium
Star Wars Outlaws is the clear marquee addition. Developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft, it’s an open-world action-adventure that dropped players into the Star Wars galaxy as scoundrel Kay Vess – the first game in the franchise to commit fully to the open-world format across multiple planets. It launched to a mixed but broadly positive reception, with much of the criticism targeting its early progression systems rather than its world design or moment-to-moment play, and several post-launch patches addressed the sharpest complaints. Fair warning: this is a PS5-only addition, so PS4-only players will need to look elsewhere in the catalog.
Red Dead Redemption 2 needs little introduction, but here’s the stat that matters: Rockstar Games‘ 2018 epic has sold over 61 million copies and remains a reference point for open-world storytelling in gaming. It’s joining the catalog as a PS4 title, which means PS5 players can access it via backward compatibility – and if you’ve somehow never spent 60 hours in the mud with Arthur Morgan, this is as good an entry point as you’re ever going to get. As previously covered in our announcement piece on the May 2026 catalog, these two alone make a compelling case for the month.
The rest of the PS Plus Extra lineup fills in nicely around those two anchors. Dimfrost Studio‘s Bramble: The Mountain King is a dark, Scandinavian folklore-infused platformer-horror hybrid that punches well above its indie weight – and trophy hunters will be happy to know it’s pegged at around a 2–3/10 completion difficulty with a sub-five-hour runtime. Revolution Software‘s Broken Sword – Shadows of the Templar: Reforged is a remaster of the beloved 1996 point-and-click classic, landing on both PS5 and PS4 with modernised visuals and another approachable completion time. Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn from A44 Games is a Soulslike-adjacent action RPG with a more forgiving bent, The Thaumaturge is a Warsaw-set RPG from Fool’s Theory with genuine narrative ambition, and Enotria: The Last Song rounds things out as an Italian folklore-inspired Soulslike that flew under a lot of radars at launch.
Over on PS Plus Premium, Time Crisis makes its return as part of the Classics Catalogue – the original 1997 PlayStation release, complete with its console-exclusive special stages and new gyro aiming support on PS4 and PS5. It also carries the standard Classics Catalogue quality-of-life additions: quick save and rewind functionality. It’s a short, arcade-cabinet hit of nostalgia that Premium subscribers will either love immediately or complete in a single sitting.
Here’s the context: Sony has been anchoring each monthly PS Plus Extra drop with at least one major third-party title since relaunching the tiered service in 2022, and May 2026 follows that playbook while raising the stakes – last month’s headliners were The Crew Motorfest and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, which were solid, but two catalogue-defining names like Star Wars Outlaws and Red Dead Redemption 2 arriving in the same month is a harder sell to ignore. It’s also worth flagging that the catalog rotates – seven games are already leaving PS Plus Extra and Premium in May 2026, so if you’ve been sitting on anything from the previous months, now’s the time to get it done.
Here’s the real read: May 2026 is comfortably one of the stronger PS Plus Extra months in recent memory, and the reason is straightforward: the two headliners aren’t just big names – they’re games with genuine replay hooks that justify the subscription cost on their own. Red Dead Redemption 2 at its retail price still fetches around £30–40 on PlayStation Store, and Star Wars Outlaws launched at full price not long ago. For subscribers already questioning whether the service is worth it – especially given Sony’s recent PS Plus price increases – this is the kind of month that quiets those doubts, at least temporarily. Trophy hunters and casual players both win here, which doesn’t happen every month.
Are you finally diving into Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time, or is Star Wars Outlaws the one pulling you straight into the download queue? Sound off in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more PlayStation Plus coverage.
