PlayStation Plus November 2026: the monthly games, GTA 5 leaving and every US price

PlayStation Plus members in the US can add three games to their library in November 2026: Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered and Monster Train 2, available to claim from Tuesday, November 3, to Monday, November 30. The bigger news sits one tier up. On November 17, two days before Grand Theft Auto VI launches, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 leave the Game Catalog that comes with Extra and Premium, along with nine other games. Memberships cost $10.99 a month for Essential, $16.99 for Extra and $19.99 for Premium, and Sony's plan page shows no discount on any of them as of November 10, 2026.

That makes this an awkward month to be deciding on a plan. Essential is enough to keep the free monthly games and play online. Extra is the tier that loses the two Rockstar games. Premium adds cloud streaming, which is how a PlayStation Portal owner plays without the console doing the work. Here is what each part of the November lineup means and what it costs to stay in.

PlayStation Plus monthly games for November 2026

Sony announced the lineup on the PlayStation Blog on October 28, 2026. All three games are monthly games, the ones every tier, Essential included, can add to its library. Once added, a game stays playable for as long as the membership stays active.

Monster Train 2 is the only one of the three that skips PS4. That fits a pattern Sony now prints on its plan page: since January 2026, PS4 games are added to the monthly lineup only now and then.

Dead Island 2

Dead Island 2 turns Los Angeles into what the game calls HELL-A, a city overrun by mutated zombies. It is a melee-heavy action RPG, meaning quests, eccentric survivors and a large arsenal of improvised weapons, with stops at recognizable LA locations. You can play it alone or in online co-op with up to three players, which on PS5 and PS4 needs the multiplayer that every PlayStation Plus tier includes.

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered

This collection bundles what Sony calls the Darkness Trilogy: Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider: Chronicles and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. The remaster keeps the original polygonal character models as an option, so you can switch between the old graphics and the remastered ones at any time. It runs on both PS5 and PS4.

Monster Train 2

Monster Train 2 is a single-player deckbuilding roguelite, a strategy game where you build a deck of cards between runs that end when you lose. You command clans formed from an alliance of former angels and demons, defending a train across three vertical levels against Titans who have seized Heaven. There are five new clans to pick from, each with its own strengths. It is the only PS5-only game in the lineup.

What games are leaving PlayStation Plus in November 2026

Eleven games leave the Extra and Premium Game Catalog on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, according to the Last Chance to Play list Sony posted in the PlayStation Store when the October catalog update went live. Sony had already told players separately that Grand Theft Auto V was on its way out.

Published counts of the departures range from 10 to 12, because Sony's list can change during the month. The PlayStation Store's Last Chance to Play section is the place to confirm a game before you plan around it.

Catalog games work differently from monthly games. A monthly game you claimed stays yours while your membership lasts. A catalog game is borrowed: when it leaves, you lose access, even if you downloaded it and have hours of progress. Your progress isn't erased, though: Sony says that if you buy the game in the PlayStation Store later, you get your save data back, as long as you haven't deleted it.

Why GTA 5 is leaving PlayStation Plus right before GTA 6

The timing lines up with the biggest launch of the year. Grand Theft Auto VI comes out on November 19, 2026, as a rolling midnight launch: it unlocks country by country as each one reaches midnight, starting in New Zealand. Sony says it is the most pre-ordered game in the history of the PlayStation Store, and pre-loading opened on PS5 on November 10, nine days early. We covered the exact GTA 6 release time in every US time zone separately.

Neither Sony nor Rockstar has explained the removal. What matters for a subscriber is the calendar. If you were using the catalog to finish Red Dead Redemption 2 or replay Los Santos before moving to Leonida, the state where GTA 6 is set, you have until November 17. After that, both games are back to being store purchases.

GTA 6 itself is a separate purchase on every tier. It is not part of PlayStation Plus, and Sony hasn't announced it for the Game Catalog or for cloud streaming. On PS5 Pro, Sony lists sharper image quality through PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, its upscaling, and ray-traced shadows. Whether that is worth the step up is the subject of our PS5 vs PS5 Pro comparison.

How much PlayStation Plus costs in November 2026

Sony sells each of the three tiers for one, three or twelve months. These are the US prices on Sony's PlayStation Plus page on November 10, 2026.

Every tier includes the monthly games, online multiplayer, cloud storage for saves and member discounts in the PlayStation Store. Extra adds the Game Catalog of hundreds of games and a curated selection of Ubisoft+ Classics, which Sony values at $7.99 a month. Premium adds the Classics Catalog of older PlayStation games, game trials, cloud streaming and up to 100 movies on demand.

Upgrading in the middle of a plan doesn't mean starting over. Sony charges a pro-rated fee that covers the gap between your current tier and the new one for the time left on your membership.

Is there a PlayStation Plus Black Friday deal in 2026

Sony hasn't announced one. The PlayStation Store's Black Friday sale started early, at 12:00 a.m. PT (3:00 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, November 4, with discounts of up to 75% on PS5, PS4 and PS VR2 games, expansions and add-ons. New titles join the sale on November 16, some discounts end on November 20, and the whole promotion runs until 11:59 p.m. PT on Monday, November 30 (2:59 a.m. ET on December 1). Sony's announcement doesn't include a PlayStation Plus membership offer, and the plan page lists every tier at full price.

If a membership deal does appear later in the month, you don't have to wait for your current plan to run out to use it. Sony lets you buy a new membership that starts when the existing one ends, so a discounted year can be stacked on top of the time you already paid for.

PlayStation Plus Premium cloud streaming and PS Portal

Premium is the only tier with cloud streaming, and it is the one most relevant to owners of the PlayStation Portal, Sony's handheld that plays games streamed to it. Without Premium, the Portal streams games installed on your own PS5 over Wi-Fi. With Premium, it can also stream select PS5 games straight from Sony's servers, including games from the catalog and some digital games you bought in the PlayStation Store, without the console being on.

Sony quotes streams at up to 4K with HDR at 60Hz on a PS5, and a minimum connection of 5 Mbps, or 15 Mbps for 1080p. Our guide to playing GTA 6 on PS Portal explains why streaming from your own console is the route for that game.

Which PlayStation Plus tier to pick this month

The choice comes down to what you play in the next few weeks.

• Essential. Right for anyone who mostly buys games and needs online play. It gets you all three November monthly games and keeps every monthly game you have claimed in past years playable.
• Extra. Worth it if the catalog is how you find games. Just know that GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leave in a week, and Sony hasn't said what replaces them.
• Premium. The one to pick if you own a PS Portal and want to play away from your PS5, or if you want the PS3 and PS2 classics. The extra $3 a month over Extra pays for streaming, trials and the classics library.

For anyone comparing subscriptions across consoles, Microsoft's lineup for the month is in our Game Pass November 2026 guide, with its own departures on November 15.