Games leaving PS Plus Extra and Premium in December 2026

PlayStation PlusBy Sofia Brandt · Nov 14, 2026Fact-checked by Harriet Vance

As of November 15, 2026, Sony has not published the list of games leaving PS Plus Extra and Premium in December 2026. Removals are expected on Tuesday, December 15, and the list should appear in the PlayStation Store’s Last Chance to Play section when the November catalog goes live on November 17. Until then, this page tracks the 15 games most likely to leave, sorted by when each joined the catalog, and covers the separate deadline for claiming the Essential Monthly Games.

Games leaving PS Plus in December 2026: the short answer

Sony has not posted an official December 2026 departure list yet. The tracker at gamesleaving.com and the predictions PlayStation LifeStyle published on November 4 both expect the usual pattern. Games leave on the third Tuesday of the month, which this time is December 15, and Sony posts the list about a month ahead.

The table below covers every game still in the catalog from the December 2024 and December 2025 intakes. Those two groups reach their usual 24-month and 12-month contract ends this December. The “Leaves” column shows the expected date, not a confirmed one.

The playtime figures for Cat Quest III, A Space for the Unbound, Skate Story and Granblue Fantasy: Relink come from published how-long-to-beat guides. Cygames’ own figure for Relink is about 20 hours, and faster players report 11 to 15. For the other games, the column gives a rough length rather than an exact number.

From November 17 to December 15 you have 28 days. At one hour a night, that’s about 28 hours. You could finish Cat Quest III, Skate Story and A Space for the Unbound back to back and still spend an evening at the Coffee Talk counter. You couldn’t finish Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty from scratch.

Confirmed list (updated when the PS Store shows it)

No game is confirmed for removal on December 15. When the Store updates, the confirmed titles replace the predicted tracker above, and each row gets a confirmed date and a region flag (“All regions” or “Select regions”). Until then, treat any “confirmed” December list you see elsewhere as a forecast. That goes for lists credited to an anonymous account too, unless they point to the Store collection or an official PlayStation post.

Why the list hasn’t appeared yet

Last Chance to Play refreshes on the day each month’s catalog arrives, and Sony Interactive Entertainment has run the catalog this way for several years. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Atomfall and Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake are due on Tuesday, November 17, so December’s departures should show up that day or shortly after. If Last Chance to Play isn’t showing December games yet, that’s the reason. As of today it still lists November’s departures.

Key dates at a glance

The next five weeks bring deadlines across all three tiers, and January’s rotation follows soon after.

How the risk ratings were decided

The December 2024 additions carry the most risk because they reach two years in the catalog. The December 2025 intake comes next at the one-year mark, and the Ubisoft+ titles are the safest. The ratings in the tracker weigh three factors, in this order:

1. How long the game has been in the catalog, compared with Sony’s usual 12- and 24-month deals.
2. Whether it belongs to a publisher subscription bundled into Extra.
3. Whether it’s a first-party or day-one release, which can come with different terms.

Most likely to leave

The five December 2024 indies have already outlasted a 12-month deal. That almost always means they were on a two-year deal, and it now runs out. Coffee Talk and Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly are short, cosy visual novels from Indonesia’s Toge Productions, where you brew drinks for fantasy customers in a rainy Seattle. A Space for the Unbound, from Mojiken Studio, is a pixel-art adventure set in small-town Indonesia in the late 1990s. PHOGS and Biped are both co-op puzzle games. In PHOGS you steer a stretchy two-headed dog, and Biped’s two small robots work best with a friend on the couch.

The December 2025 games come next. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is Team Ninja’s Three Kingdoms-era Soulslike for Koei Tecmo. Granblue Fantasy: Relink is Cygames’ four-player action RPG. Planet Coaster 2 is Frontier Developments’ theme-park builder, Cat Quest III is a pirate-themed open-world action RPG, and the two Paw Patrol titles are licensed games for young children. Every one of them now reaches the 12-month mark, so each could renew for a second year or leave. Nothing in outside reporting shows which deals were signed for one year and which for two.

Skate Story gets its own note. Devolver Digital’s surreal skateboarding game joined PS Plus Extra the day it launched, and PlayStation LifeStyle’s predictions name it as a day-one hit that may be leaving. Day-one catalog deals are often short windows meant to support a launch, so its medium rating leans cautious. With a 6 to 8 hour main story, it’s the December 2025 game you’re most likely to finish before the 15th.

Probably safe (Ubisoft+)

Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Rabbids: Party of Legends belong to the Ubisoft+ Classics collection included with PS Plus Extra. That agreement covers them, not Sony’s normal title-by-title contracts, so they usually stay well past their anniversary. Rabbids: Party of Legends is still in the catalog two years after it arrived in December 2024, which backs up that reading. Your Baghdad run in Mirage doesn’t need to fit into the next four weeks.

The LEGO Horizon Adventures question

LEGO Horizon Adventures has two separate statuses, and what happens to you depends on how you added it. It was a PS Plus Monthly Game in December 2025 and also appeared among that month’s Extra catalog additions. If you claimed it between December 2, 2025 and January 5, 2026, it stays in your library as long as you keep any paid tier, Essential included, even after the catalog version leaves. If you only played it through the Extra catalog, you lose access when the catalog licence ends. Sony published it, and Guerrilla and Studio Gobo developed it, so it has a better chance than most of the December 2025 group of staying past 12 months.

Region-specific departures

Some departures only happen in certain storefronts, because the PS Plus catalog differs by region. In November 2026, PlayStation LifeStyle reported that six games were leaving only in some regions: Thank Goodness You’re Here, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, Hotshot Racing, EDF 4.1, Rapala Fishing: Pro Series and Yet Another Zombie Defense HD. If a game on another site’s list isn’t in your own Last Chance to Play, your storefront probably holds a different licence. Your local Store collection is the list to trust.

Games added partway through the month

The first list Sony posts isn’t always the final one. In December 2025, Push Square reported that nine PS5 and PS4 games would leave on December 16, 2025, including Forspoken, Battlefield 2042 and Grand Theft Auto III. Sony then added River City Melee Mach and 11-11 Memories Retold after that first list went up. The likeliest reason is licensing timing. A contract that ends on a slightly different date, or a publisher deal that closes late, can put a game on the list mid-month.

Free Monthly Games leaving in December (PS Plus Essential)

Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered and Monster Train 2 leave the Monthly Games lineup at the end of November. Unlike catalog games, they stay in your library once you’ve claimed them. The PlayStation Blog’s October 28 announcement set the window to open on Tuesday, November 3. Dead Island 2 and the Tomb Raider collection are on PS5 and PS4, and Monster Train 2 is PS5 only. Members on all three tiers can claim them, and they stay playable as long as you keep a subscription. Our guide to PlayStation Plus Essential explains the base tier in more detail, and our PS Plus November 2026 coverage has the full lineup.

How to claim before the deadline

Claiming takes under a minute on any device you’re signed in on:

1. On PS5, open the PlayStation Store and go to the PlayStation Plus area, or open the PlayStation Plus hub from your Game Library.
2. Select each of the three Monthly Games.
3. Choose “Add to Library”. You don’t need to download the game yet.
4. Away from the console, open the Store tab in the PlayStation App, find the same games and add them there. The claim syncs to your account.

When the December 2026 Monthly Games are revealed

December 2025 gives the likely timing for the December 2026 reveal. The December 2025 lineup was LEGO Horizon Adventures, Killing Floor 3, The Outlast Trials, Synduality Echo of Ada and Neon White. The PlayStation Blog revealed it on November 26, and the games could be claimed from December 2, 2025 to January 5, 2026. If Sony follows that pattern, December 2026’s reveal should land in the last week of November, with the games claimable from Tuesday, December 1.

What happens to your saves, trophies and DLC when a game leaves

When a catalog game leaves, you can no longer launch it, but your progress stays. Saves remain on your console and in cloud storage, trophies you’ve earned stay on your profile, and if you buy the game later you pick up where you stopped.

November’s departures show how this works. GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 leave the Extra catalog on Tuesday, November 17, two days before Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19. Players who own either game carry on as normal. Players who relied on Extra lose access, but their saves stay put and load again if they buy the game. Sony and Rockstar haven’t announced any return to PS Plus. A licensed game pulled ahead of a big sequel can come back later, but don’t count on it.

Keeping progress after a game leaves

Progress survives a removal, but saves, trophies and DLC each follow their own rule:

• DLC: add-ons you bought stay on your account, but they need the base game licence to run. You can’t use them until you buy the game or it comes back.
• Trophies: earned trophies stay on your profile permanently, and if you buy the game later you continue the same trophy list.
• Cloud saves: uploading and downloading need an active PS Plus subscription on any tier. Without a subscription, your saves can still exist on local storage, but they can’t be automatically synced to cloud storage.

Buy it or let it go: Extra member discount

If you’re partway through a game when it leaves, buying it is the only way to keep playing without waiting for a return. Sony often discounts departing catalog games for subscribers, so check the game’s PlayStation Store page for a member price in the days after the list goes up. Buying makes sense when you have more than a weekend of play left and would replay the game. If the game is short, finishing it before December 15 and keeping your money is usually the better deal.

What’s coming to PS Plus in December 2026

Two December additions are known so far: Dynasty Warriors: Origins in the Extra catalog and the 2002 Ratchet & Clank as a Premium classic. Neither has a date. Sony usually announces the full December catalog on the PlayStation Blog about a week before it goes live, so expect the announcement around December 9 for a December 15 launch.

Dynasty Warriors: Origins first appeared on the Japanese PlayStation Blog, and PlayStation LifeStyle and Push Square then reported it as coming to Extra in December. That confirmation came from a regional Sony blog rather than a global post, so a worldwide release is very likely but not yet official outside Japan. Koei Tecmo and Omega Force’s 2025 reboot is a PS5 game and doesn’t need Premium. Ratchet & Clank, Insomniac Games’ 2002 PS2 original, follows November’s Premium additions, Soul Reaver 2 and Freedom Wars Remastered, which arrive on November 17.

How to check Last Chance to Play yourself

The quickest way to see what’s leaving is the Last Chance to Play collection, which Sony updates when each month’s catalog goes live.

Store updates roll out region by region, and Asian storefronts often update first. That’s why early December lists usually turn up on the r/PlayStationPlus subreddit, posted by players in Japan or Hong Kong, before US stores change. Treat those posts as community reports, a step below the Store itself. Check them against your own Last Chance to Play, since some departures only apply in certain regions. Look at the collection again in early December too, because Sony sometimes adds games partway through the month.

Looking ahead: January 2027

January’s departures should follow the same rules, with removals expected on Tuesday, January 19, 2027, the third Tuesday of the month. Two intakes reach their usual contract ends.

Some games in those intakes have already left the catalog. The ones still there are the January candidates, and first-party God of War Ragnarök is the least likely of them to go. Sony should list January’s departures in Last Chance to Play around December 15, when December’s catalog arrives.

Is PS Plus Extra still worth it after the 2026 price rise?

Extra is still good value if you play two or more catalog games a year that you’d otherwise buy. It’s weaker value if you mostly want one big licensed game, because those are exactly the games that leave, as GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 just showed. Push Square reported that since May 20, 2026, new US subscribers pay $16.99 a month for Extra (Essential is $10.99, Premium $19.99). The annual Extra plan is still $134.99, the same price since September 2025.

Games leaving PS Plus by month (2026 archive)

Departures have stuck to the third-Tuesday pattern, and recent end-of-year months show what December is likely to look like.

Other months: games leaving PS Plus in October 2026, November 2026 and January 2027. Our article on October 2026’s free games covers that month’s Essential lineup, including F1 25 and Hunt: Showdown 1896.

Update log

This page changes whenever Sony’s Last Chance to Play collection changes, and each change is dated here.

• November 15, 2026: predicted tracker of 15 games, November departures, the Monthly Games deadline and the January 2027 outlook added.

FAQ

Are early December lists on Reddit reliable?

Usually, but treat them as community reports until your own Store shows the same games. Posts on r/PlayStationPlus often come from Asian storefronts that refresh first, and those catalogs don’t always match the US or European ones.

Is the list different on PS5 Pro, PS5 Slim or PS4?

No. Departures depend on your account’s region and subscription tier, not on your console. PS4 catalog games on the list leave on every PS5 model too, and PS5-only titles such as Skate Story and Planet Coaster 2 were never playable on PS4.

Will GTA 5 ever come back to PS Plus after GTA 6 launches?

No return has been announced. Treat November 17, 2026 as the end of catalog access unless you buy the game. If you do, your saves will load.

What is happening to the PS Plus PC app?

Sony retires the app on December 10, 2026, and Premium cloud streaming on Windows PCs ends with it. In its November 10 PlayStation Blog post, reported by outlets including Shacknews and GamingBolt, Sony said fewer than 0.4% of eligible Premium members were using the app. Streaming still works on PS5, PS4 and PlayStation Portal. If PC streaming was your main reason for paying for Premium over Extra, review your plan before your next renewal.

What is happening to PlayStation Plus in 2026?

Three changes stand out. Monthly and three-month prices went up for new subscribers on May 20, 2026, the PC app shuts down on December 10, and the catalog keeps rotating on the third Tuesday of each month.

What do I lose if I drop from Extra to Essential?

You lose every Game Catalog title right away, not only the ones on the leaving list. You keep the Monthly Games you’ve claimed, cloud saves and online multiplayer. Your saves and trophies from catalog games stay on your account in case you rejoin or buy the game.

Your next step is to open Last Chance to Play on November 17. Once it shows your region’s real December departures, move the short games to the top of your queue so you finish them by December 15.