PS Plus Essential May 2025 games reveal time – when the free PS5 and PS4 games are announced

A new PS Plus drop is on the way, and if we're lucky, subscribers are in for another banger of a reveal featuring new PS5 and PS4 games they can get stuck into at no extra cost.

is winning more and more players over as the months of 2025 draw on, and even though the price of everything is escalating to a point where subscriptions like this one become harder to justify, is willing to pull out the big guns to keep players around. This couldn’t be more clearer than with the arrival of the , which skimped a little in the category of quantity, but it still managed to throw out for players who haven’t yet explored the Wizarding World in a major delivery.

It seems that we’re no longer in a period of having to pick and choose which game drop in the PS Plus category will get good games, as the drop was a belter, offering players a major throwback with games headlined by franchises like RoboCop and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Our would lead to a major drop offering players – but even if it doesn’t, the prospect of some free games is still something worth paying attention to.

So, when can we expect the arrival of the next PS Plus drop for its Essential tier? Here’s the PS Plus Essential May 2025 games reveal time.

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PS Plus Essential May 2025 games reveal time

The PS Plus Essential May 2025 games reveal time will be 8.30am PDT / 11.30am EDT / 4.30pm BST on Wednesday, April 30. We know this because the Essential games of any given month are always revealed at this time on the Wednesday of the week before their drop, which in this case is Tuesday, May 6.

Fingers are crossed everywhere that the new PS Plus drop will be a big one, and if we’re lucky, it’ll offer us plenty to do while we wait for the latest AAA titles to drop. After all, it doesn’t seem like PlayStation is up to much else at the moment.