The lineup of PlayStation Plus games for December 2025 looks set to be off to a pretty rough start, with a hefty batch of seriously great games poised to leave the service. That’s not very Christmassy, is it?
It’s a funny old time for PlayStation Plus over the next few months. As you’ve probably heard already, January 2026 will see a major change to the subscription service with the phasing out of PlayStation 4 titles offered as part of the Essential tier. Before that, however, December will see another blow.
PlayStation Plus’ December 2025 Lineup Is Looking Bleak
More games are set to leave
Games leave PlayStation Plus every month, obviously, and December is no different. No less than nine games are leaving the PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium tiers next month on December 16.
Those games are:
- Battlefield 2042
- Firefighting Simulator: The Squad
- Forspoken
- Grand Theft Auto 3
- Sonic Frontiers
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew
- Surviving Mars
- Arcade Paradise VR
- Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge
Obviously you won’t be able to play and finish all of these games before December 16, so you might want to choose wisely. Or you could attempt to prove me wrong and beat all nine, I guess. That’s really your call.
PlayStation Plus Subscribers Are Less Than Thrilled
Especially those with PSVR 2 headsets
One of the more notable aspects of this month is that a huge number of PSVR 2 titles are being pulled from the service, which doesn’t bode well for gamers who invested in the struggling virtual reality headset.
“So they are just taking every PSVR 2 game off of Plus?” one Reddit user asked on the PlayStation Plus subreddit.
“I am hoping the explanation is so that PSVR 2 games will start being added to Extra instead,” another gamer reasoned. “It always seemed dumb to lock them behind Premium because, if all their Extra subscribers saw that they had access to a bunch of VR games, they might actually be pushed into buying PSVR 2. I have to imagine that the Premium user base is much smaller than the Extra base.”
The PlayStation Plus Essential games for December 2025 will be officially announced next week, but hopefully we get some solid additions to take the sting out of losing the above nine games.
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Sony
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June 29, 2010
- Original MSRP (USD)
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$59.99 (Essential), $99.99 (Extra), $119.99 (Premium) – Per Year
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PlayStation Store
