PS Plus September Games Go Live With MLB The Show 26 and Sniper Elite: Resistance
The four PS Plus September games unlock today, 1 September, and stay claimable until Monday 5 October. Sony's Monthly Games slate this time is Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26, Wobbly Life and Chained Echoes, and every PlayStation Plus tier gets them at no extra cost.
The rollout is not simultaneous worldwide. The lineup swaps over as the PlayStation Store refreshes in each region, so players hitting the store early in the day may still see August's titles for a few hours.
What's in the PS Plus September games lineup
Sniper Elite: Resistance is the headline pick for anyone who wants a full campaign. Rebellion's shooter runs parallel to the story of Sniper Elite 5 and drops you into occupied France as an SOE operative, with the series' long-range ballistics and X-ray kill cam intact. The campaign supports two-player co-op, and the Axis Invasion mode lets another player drop into your game as an enemy sniper. Survival mode is included too.
MLB The Show 26 is the annual baseball sim from San Diego Studio, carrying Road To The Show for a single-player career and Diamond Dynasty for card-based squad building across different eras of the sport. It is the one game here with a hard platform limit, and the details are below.
Wobbly Life is the outlier and probably the one to grab if you play with other people in the room. It is a ragdoll physics sandbox with story missions, odd jobs and arcade modes, playable solo, with up to three others online, or in local split-screen.
Chained Echoes rounds it out. It is a story-driven single-player JRPG set on the continent of Valandis, built in a 16-bit style, and it mixes traditional turn-based party combat with piloted mechs. Short by JRPG standards and well regarded since its 2022 release.
Which platforms each game runs on
The four titles are not all on both consoles, which matters if you are still on a PS4:
- Sniper Elite: Resistance — PS5 and PS4
- MLB The Show 26 — PS5 only
- Wobbly Life — PS5 and PS4
- Chained Echoes — PS4 only
PS5 owners are not locked out of Chained Echoes. It runs through backward compatibility like any other PS4 title, so you claim the PS4 version and play it on the newer console. The reverse does not apply: MLB The Show 26 is a PS5 build with no PS4 counterpart in this offer, and there is no way to play it on the older hardware.
How long you have to claim the September games
You have until Monday 5 October to add all four to your library. Claiming is the part people forget. Adding a game to your account while it is live keeps it for as long as your subscription stays active, and you do not need to download it or even install it that month. Miss the window and the game is gone from the offer entirely.
August's set expired on 31 August. Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition, Big Walk and Signalis are no longer claimable, so if you skipped them, they are off the table now.
Where Monthly Games sit next to Extra and Premium
Monthly Games are the Essential-tier benefit, which means every subscriber gets them, including people paying for Extra or Premium. Those higher tiers add the separate Game Catalog and Classics Catalog, which rotate on their own schedule — the most recent batch arrived in the PS Plus August wave 2 additions. The key difference is ownership: Game Catalog titles vanish from your library when they leave the service or when you downgrade, while claimed Monthly Games stay put as long as you keep subscribing.
Anyone weighing the two big console subscriptions can compare this against the latest Xbox Game Pass additions and removals, which uses a rotating-library model rather than a claim-and-keep one.
It is a busy stretch for PlayStation more broadly. The next State of Play airs on 3 September, and Sony has just rolled out free ad-supported Live TV channels on PS5 in the US. If you would rather play on a phone while the downloads run, our roundup of the best Android multiplayer games to play with friends covers the co-op side on mobile.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the PS Plus games for September 2026?
Sony's Monthly Games for September are Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26, Wobbly Life and Chained Echoes. All four unlocked on 1 September. They are an Essential-tier benefit, so every PlayStation Plus subscriber gets them regardless of whether they pay for Essential, Extra or Premium.
When do the September PS Plus games expire?
Monday 5 October is the last day to add them to your library. After that they leave the offer. Once you have claimed a game it stays in your library for as long as your subscription stays active, so there is no need to download it before the deadline — claiming is enough.
Is MLB The Show 26 on PS4 through PS Plus?
No. MLB The Show 26 is listed for PS5 only in this month's offer, with no PS4 version included. Sniper Elite: Resistance and Wobbly Life cover both PS5 and PS4, while Chained Echoes is a PS4 title that PS5 owners can play through backward compatibility.
Why can I still see the August PS Plus games?
The lineup changes as the PlayStation Store updates in each region rather than at one global moment, so the swap can lag by a few hours depending on where you are. August's games — Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition, Big Walk and Signalis — stopped being claimable on 31 August, so anything you see after that point is a store cache rather than a live offer.
Do I keep PS Plus monthly games if I cancel?
No. Claimed Monthly Games stay in your library only while your subscription is active. If you let PlayStation Plus lapse they become unplayable until you resubscribe, at which point access returns. That is still better than Game Catalog titles on Extra and Premium, which leave your library when they rotate out of the service entirely.
