PlayStation Plus October 2026: F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and EDF World Brothers 2

Sony confirmed the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October 2026 on the PlayStation Blog on September 30. The three titles become available to all PlayStation Plus tiers, including Essential, from Tuesday, October 6, and remain claimable until Monday, November 2, 2026, according to the official announcement.

The three October 2026 Monthly Games

The list below follows the order given in Sony's own announcement. The stated criterion for inclusion is simple: these are the only three games confirmed as October 2026 PlayStation Plus Monthly Games, available to redeem during the claim window regardless of subscription tier.

1. F1 25 — the official game of the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship, built around single-player Career and an expanded My Team 2.0 mode plus online multiplayer, including a group mode against AI called F1 World, according to the PlayStation Blog. Sony's listing names PS5 as the only platform; Alt Char's report, by contrast, lists the game for both PS4 and PS5.
2. Hunt: Showdown 1896 — an extraction shooter described by Sony as 'a new era of the addictively unforgiving extraction shooter,' in which players track bounties tied to monstrous bosses while competing against other hunters; it can be played solo or in teams of up to three, according to the PlayStation Blog. Sony's listing names PS5 as the only platform; Alt Char's report, by contrast, lists the game for both PS4 and PS5.
3. Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 (PS4 and PS5) — the only title in the lineup confirmed for both platforms by all three outlets, a voxel-style cooperative action game in which players build four-character squads drawn from across the EDF series, with four-player online co-op and two-player local split screen, as detailed by Sony and confirmed by Noisy Pixel and Alt Char.

Availability window and platforms

Members still need to add September's four Monthly Games — Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26, Wobbly Life and Chained Echoes — to their library before October 5, after which those titles leave the Essential rotation, the PlayStation Blog and Alt Char both note.

Extra content tied to the October lineup

Alongside the Monthly Games, PlayStation Plus members can claim limited-edition Spider-Man: Brand New Day PSN avatars through Sony Pictures Core starting October 6 at no additional cost, according to the PlayStation Blog and Noisy Pixel's reporting. Sony is also distributing horror-themed in-game item bundles for Call of Duty: Warzone, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and Overwatch 2 as part of an October 'HorrorFest' promotion named on the PlayStation Blog and also reported by Alt Char.