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Sony announces May PlayStation Plus FREE games: Ark Survival Ascended, Balatro, more

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The clock is now ticking to score the April PlayStation Plus FREE games as Sony has now taken to the official PlayStation Blog to announce the Monthly Games for May. I hope you’re ready to form a “tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain,” check out the best roguelike deck builder out there, and dig into some 90’s retro shooter action – the new titles are set to go live on Tuesday. 

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for May

This of course means you’ll have until May 5 to claim last month’s freebies – RoboCop: Rogue City, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory – before they are gone for good. As a reminder, only PS Plus subscribers can claim and keep these monthly games. 

May’s titles include Ark: Survival Ascended, Balatro and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, all of which will go live and FREE on May 6, 2025, and will remain as such through until early June. 

More on Ark: Survival Ascended:

Are you ready to form a tribe, tame and breed hundreds of species of dinosaurs and other primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain? Your new world awaits in this survival sim, reimagined from the ground-up with Unreal Engine 5, with high-end graphic features, advanced physics systems and quality of life revamps in every area. Ark: Survival Ascended includes access to all of Ark’s worlds, including Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Ark Genesis Part 1, Ark Genesis Part 2, and more. The game supports public online multiplayer for up to 70 players, private-session multiplayer for up to 8 players, and local split-screen for 2 players.

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