Final Fantasy Games Among 25 Titles Exiting PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium in May 2024

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Sony Interactive Entertainment has updated that a whopping 25 games are scheduled to leave PlayStation Plus’ Games catalog on May 21, 2024, and six classic Final Fantasy titles are on the list.

Here’s the full list of games leaving PlayStation Plus for Extra and Premium/Deluxe Members:

  • Abzu

  • Adr1ft

  • How to Survive 2

  • The Artful Escape

  • Ashen

  • Last Stop

  • I Am Dead

  • Absolver: Downfall

  • My Friend Pedro

  • The Messenger

  • Jotun

  • Sundered

  • World of Final Fantasy

  • This Is the Police

  • This Is the Police 2

  • ELEX

  • Monster Jam Steel Titans 2

  • Minit

  • Observation

  • Final Fantasy IX

  • Final Fantasy VII

  • Final Fantasy VIII Remastered

  • Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age

  • Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition

  • Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster

If you want to see it for yourself you can do so on either the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 under the PlayStation Plus section in the dashboard. There’s a ‘Last chance to play’ section showing the games leaving the service.

This isn’t the biggest list of games leaving the service as we did have a month where more than 30 games were scheduled to leave all at once, and that was back in May 2023.

Why is this happening?

Why is this happening? It’s common for services like PlayStation Plus as whatever deal between the service and those who own the rights to the games eventually expire. If not renewed, it leaves the service, and subscribers will no longer have access to those games. But there are chances that it will be added again in the future, but it’s hard to tell when this will happen.

A batch of games have left the service in the past, but this is list of games leaving for this month is a bit larger than usual. It also contains a good amount of classic Final Fantasy titles, which I’d like to think Sony would like to hold onto as many are still on a Final Fantasy high, especially those going through Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

This is the main difference between the PlayStation Plus Game and Classic Catalog and the Monthly Games offered each month to all subscribers. Games that are in either of the catalogs for Extra and Premium/Deluxe members will always have a chance of being removed from the list of games, while Monthly Games will be in a user’s account for as long as you are subscribed to the service. There is no time limit to Monthly Games.

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