What games were added to PS Plus on 18 August 2026?

Four games unlocked on 18 August. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (PS5) and Vampire Survivors (PS4, PS5) joined the Game Catalog for Extra and Premium members. Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire joined the Classics Catalog on PS4 and PS5, and those two are restricted to Premium subscribers only.

Is Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on PS4?

No. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is a PS5-only title and has no PlayStation 4 version, so PS4 owners cannot play it through PS Plus. Of the four games added on 18 August, Vampire Survivors and the two Classics Catalog titles are the ones that run on PS4.

Do I need PS Plus Premium for these games?

For two of them, yes. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and Vampire Survivors are in the Game Catalog, which Extra and Premium subscribers both get. Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire are Classics Catalog titles, and the Classics Catalog is only included with Premium.

Why does PS Plus add games on several dates now?

Sony moved to a staggered release format in June 2026. Instead of publishing the full monthly lineup on one day, additions are spread across multiple dates through the month. August 2026 has three waves: 12 August, 18 August and 25 August.

PS Plus August Wave 2 Adds KCD2 and Vampire Survivors

Q: What is coming to PS Plus on 25 August 2026?

Five more Game Catalog titles are scheduled for 25 August: Dying Light 2 Stay Human (PS4, PS5), Hell is Us (PS5), Metro Exodus (PS4, PS5), Two Point Museum (PS5) and Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash (PS4). Sony lists that wave for the United States, United Kingdom and Japan, and notes lineups can vary by region.

What is in the PS Plus August wave 2 lineup

Four games unlocked today. Two land in the Game Catalog, which Extra and Premium members both get, and two land in the Classics Catalog, which only Premium members can reach.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II (PS5) — Extra and Premium

Vampire Survivors (PS4 and PS5) — Extra and Premium

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (PS4 and PS5) — Premium only

Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (PS4 and PS5) — Premium only

The tier split matters more than the game count. If you pay for Extra, two of these four are simply not in your library, and no amount of searching the store will surface them. Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams and Atlantis are Classics Catalog titles, and the Classics Catalog is a Premium feature.

Which platforms each game runs on

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is the one PS5-only title in this wave. Warhorse Studios' medieval RPG sequel has no PS4 build, so a PS4 owner with an Extra subscription gets one playable game out of today's four. Vampire Survivors runs on both PS4 and PS5, as do the two Classics entries.

That is worth checking before you plan an evening around it. The staggered format Sony moved to in June 2026 means the catalog page changes several times a month, and a game appearing in a monthly announcement does not mean it is downloadable yet.

The rest of the August schedule

Helldivers 2 opened the month on 12 August for Extra and Premium on PS5. If you picked it up then, the game's ongoing patch cadence is worth tracking — we covered what the Helldivers 2 7.0.1 hotfix actually fixed, including the missing stratagem bug.

Wave three arrives on 25 August with five more Game Catalog titles: Dying Light 2 Stay Human (PS4, PS5), Hell is Us (PS5), Metro Exodus (PS4, PS5), Two Point Museum (PS5) and Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash (PS4). Sony's own listing flags that wave as United States, United Kingdom and Japan, and notes generally that Game Catalog and Premium lineups can differ by region. Check your local store rather than assuming the list travels.

How it compares with Game Pass this month

Microsoft ran its own mid-month refresh in the same window, and the two services are drifting apart in structure rather than size. Sony is spreading a fixed monthly lineup across three dates; Microsoft is still pairing additions with removals. Our breakdown of the Xbox Game Pass August wave 2 additions and departures has that side.

One thing PS Plus subscribers should keep an eye on separately: catalog membership is not permanence. Sony is pulling 13 Ternox games from the PlayStation Store on 23 August, a reminder that a title being available today is not a guarantee it stays purchasable, let alone claimable.

Is it worth the Premium upgrade

On this wave alone, no. Two Classics titles, one of them a 2006 Capcom action game and the other a licensed Disney tie-in, is a thin case for the price gap on its own. The Premium argument is cumulative across a year of Classics drops and the streaming library, not any single month.

If you are weighing what to actually play next rather than which tier to hold, our rundown of the most anticipated games of 2026 and their release dates covers what is still ahead this year. And if you are playing any of these on a handheld or a phone via streaming, the Android games we tested with PS5 and Xbox pads covers which controllers actually pair cleanly.

Subscriptions renew, catalogs rotate, and nothing in the Game Catalog is yours once the game leaves. Download what you intend to finish.