Sony has announced the three games joining PlayStation Plus as October’s Monthly Games: F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2. All three are available to members on every PlayStation Plus tier from Tuesday, October 6 until Monday, November 2.
Members who add the games to their libraries keep access to them after the claim window closes, for as long as they remain subscribed to any PlayStation Plus tier. September’s Monthly Games — Sniper Elite: Resistance, MLB The Show 26, Wobbly Life and Chained Echoes — can be added until Monday, October 5.
The three games
- F1 25 (PS5) — the official game of the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship, with single-player Career and My Team 2.0 modes and a multiplayer mode in F1 World in which players race as a squad against AI drivers.
- Hunt: Showdown 1896 (PS5) — Crytek’s extraction shooter, in which players work alone or in teams of up to three to track down bosses, claim their bounty and escape while competing against other hunters.
- Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 (PS5, PS4) — a spin-off built around four-person squads assembled from across the EDF series and its own spin-offs, with four-player online co-op and two-player local split screen.
Sony said the Monthly Games lineup may differ by region, and advised members to check the PlayStation Store on release day.
Horror packs and Spider-Man avatars
Sony is also running a set of PlayStation Plus Exclusive HorrorFest packs through October, each of which requires the base game to access its contents. The Call of Duty: Warzone Horror Bundle is available from October 1, a Hunt: Showdown 1896 Starter Pack from October 6, and an Overwatch 2 pack containing a Dragur Reinhardt skin and five tier skips from October 7.
Limited-edition Spider-Man: Brand New Day avatars will also be released on October 6, exclusively on Sony Pictures Core, timed to the film’s arrival on the service the same day. PlayStation Plus members can claim the avatars in-app at no extra cost, while non-members must get the film on Sony Pictures Core to receive them. Sony said the promotion ends on October 20, 2026.
