What's still to come in PlayStation Plus this September

PlayStation Plus's September Game Catalog is live for Extra and Premium members, and the month is not finished yet. Sony Interactive Entertainment's director of content acquisition and operations, Adam Michel, set out the line-up on the PlayStation Blog with the bulk of it arriving on 15 September, but the roll-out staggers: two games land on 22 September and three more on 29 September, and players in the US, the UK and Japan wait longest for several of them.

What has already landed

RuneScape: Dragonwilds and WWE 2K26 head the September catalogue and arrived globally on 15 September. Date Everything!, the dating sim in which your house comes alive and starts talking back, has been playable since 9 September in the US and the UK. The line-up also includes the monster-plumbing roguelite Ball x Pit and the action game Slitterhead, both on a 22 September date for the US, the UK and Japan.

Three more games land on 29 September

The last wave is the one to circle. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, from the team behind Blasphemous, returns to the Hayabusa Village of the NES era with modern combat sensibilities. Dungeons of Hinterberg mixes alpine tourism with puzzle dungeons in the Austrian Alps, and Sniper Elite: Resistance sends series newcomer Harry Hawker behind the lines in occupied France. All three reach Extra and Premium on 29 September in the US, the UK and Japan.

Premium adds two blasts from the past

PlayStation Plus Premium members get Mega Man X Command Mission, the role-playing spin-off with more than 50 missions and mid-battle team attacks, on PS5 and PS4, alongside the remastered Metro Redux bundle on PS4.

Our opinion

September's catalogue is a grab bag, which is roughly what a subscription service should be. There is no single headline act the size of a first-party blockbuster, so the value sits in the odd corners: Date Everything! is a genuinely funny premise, and Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound has the better pedigree of the late arrivals.

The staggered dates, though, remain an own goal. Sony has run regional differences for years, but a schedule that leaves players in three of its biggest markets waiting a fortnight for the same games is a needless source of confusion in a service people already find hard to track. If the catalogue really is where mid-sized games now find an audience - and the arrival of RuneScape: Dragonwilds and WWE 2K26 suggests it is - the least Sony can do is put everybody on the same date.