5 years into the gen, they’ve decided to stop giving you PS4 games.
Yes, the time has (or rather, will) come. PlayStation Plus will stop offering PS4 games as a key benefit for their free monthly games.
The news comes from a PlayStation Blog post covering February’s free games (Payday 3 – PS5, High On Life – PS4/PS5, Pac-Man World Re-Pac – PS4/PS5). According to the blog post, They will no longer offer games exclusively for the PS4 through PlayStation Plus’s free monthly games starting January 2026. This doesn’t affect games already acquired through previous months, nor does it mean that you won’t see PS4 games on offer as free monthly games. Rather, they’re just not going to be guaranteed each month, and if you do see PS4 games on offer, they’ll most likely be available for both PS4 and PS5, like the latter two games available next month.
As they put it, this is mainly to focus on providing PS5 support through the program.
As many of our players are currently playing on PS5 and have shifted toward redeeming and accessing PS5 titles from the Monthly Games and Game Catalog benefit, PlayStation Plus is also evolving with this trend and will focus on offering PS5 titles through the Monthly Games and Game Catalog benefit starting January 2026. As we shift to PS5, PS4 games will no longer be a key benefit and will only be occasionally offered for PlayStation Plus Monthly Games and Game Catalog starting January 2026. We may still provide titles that can be playable on both PS4 and PS5 consoles after this date.
Please note, this won’t affect the PS4 Monthly Games that you have already redeemed from PlayStation Plus. You’ll continue to have access to games you’ve already redeemed as long as you remain a member. For Game Catalog, PS4 games will still be available to play until it leaves the catalog as part of our monthly refresh.
We’ll continue to evolve the experience of PlayStation Plus and optimize the benefits you receive, including exclusive discounts, online multiplayer access, online game save storage and more. As we shift our focus to PS5, we look forward to adding new PS5 titles monthly for you to enjoy.
This is considered a bold move, as it’s a well-known fact that PS5 has no games.
On the plus side, you still have a year of PS4 and PS5 games of highly variable quality (I’m going to point out that January’s big PS5 freebie was the already dead Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League). Hell, often times the best game in a month is the smallest of the lot; go figure.
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