May 2025 PS Plus Game Linked to Hollywood Movie

It looks like one of the PlayStation Plus games for May 2025 has been leaked. While Sony has yet to confirm, rumors suggest that the teen slasher horror game, Until Dawn, will be available as a free download for PlayStation players during May. Although the key art hints at the possibility of it being the Until Dawn Remastered version rather than the original 2014 release, we will provide a confirmation as soon as we have official information.

PlayStation Plus is an online gaming service for PlayStation platforms that offers a range of benefits, including free monthly games, limited-time trials, online multiplayer, and member-exclusive discounts. It also includes a vast catalog of current and classic games for Extra and Premium members, though the monthly free games are accessible to all subscribers, regardless of their tier.

As speculated by members of the PlayStation subreddit, as reported by PushSquare, this move might be a promotional strategy for the newly released Until Dawn movie. The movie, which hit theaters just before the weekend, received a lukewarm response from critics, earning a 5/10 in IGN's review, where it was described as "more disappointing than deadly, leaving all the promise of the horror game behind for a jumble of horror-movie re-creations."

The 2024 remaster of Until Dawn also received a 5/10 score from IGN, with the review criticizing it as an "overpriced and under-featured remake that seems less like a must-have bit of moonlit murder and something closer to daylight robbery." In contrast, the original 2015 game by Supermassive was more favorably received, earning a 7.5/10 from IGN.

In other news, 22 games are scheduled to be removed from the PlayStation Plus library next month, including popular titles like Grand Theft Auto 5, Payday 2: Crimewave Edition, and the last playable versions of first-party titles Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2. This removal means that Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 will no longer be available on modern consoles.