PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games for July 2023 announced

PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra subscribers will get over a dozen new games in their library starting Tuesday, July 18th. Highlights include Rebellion Entertainment’s cult hit Sniper Elite 5, the racing-game-meets-Discovery-Channel-show-from-hell Snowrunner, and Toby Fox’s acclaimed indie RPG Unknown.

Sniper Elite 5 launched a year ago and it’s probably the best formulation of the World War II stealth shooter to date. Karl Fairburne is back to take on Nazis, but this time it’s during France liberation following D-Day.

Snowrunner deserves props for its premise, at least: You’re a trucker hauling heavy, if not also dangerous, cargo across forbidding Russian steppes and barren Alaskan tundra. It’s the simple satisfaction of getting the job done. No AM radio gospel songs or hot showers in the Flying J await your gruff big-rig driver.

Unknown It is a top down RPG that draws on classic Nintendo Entertainment System game elements, such as bullet hell gameplay. The game was launched in 2015 to rave reviews, and received a slew of award nominations.

Subscribers to PS Plus Extra can now play other games starting on July 18.

• World War Z (PS4, PS5)
• Ascent (PS4, PS5)
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom — Rehydrated (PS4)
• Melty blood: Type Lumina (PS4)
• Dysmantle (PS4, PS5)
• Circus Electrique (PS4)
• Dynasty Warriors 9 (PS4)
• Samurai Warriors 5. (PS4)
• My Little Pony, A Maretime Bay Adventure (PS4, PS5)
• Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R (PS4, PS5)
• Monster Jam Steel Titans (PS4)

All three games are available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

• Gravity Crash portable (PSP)
• Twisted Metal (PlayStation)
• Twisted Metal 2 (PlayStation)

Sony’s new PlayStation Plus service format was launched in the last year. Sony hoped to attract existing PlayStation Plus users to upgrade their subscriptions to Extra or Premium, which would include the entire PlayStation Now streaming library and for download. PlayStation Plus Extra costs $14.99 per month; Premium costs $17.99 a month.

PlayStation Plus Extra members get 400 PS4 or PS5 titles; PS Plus Premium subscribers also receive 300 additional games including PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and PS2 games.

PlayStation Plus Essential — formerly PlayStation Plus — subscribers still get free games, but must claim them within the month they are offered. In June, these games will be free. Call of duty: Black Ops Cold War, Alan Wake Remastered” Endling: Extinction will last forever (available until Aug. 7).