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Sony Announces PS Plus Essential Games for June 2026

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced Grounded Fully Yoked Edition, Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide as the free PS Plus Essential games for June 2026, available to download starting June 2. The announcement details each title's features and platforms while noting ongoing access to May's games and the service's recent price increases.

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Sony announced the free PlayStation Plus Essential games for June 2026. The lineup includes Grounded Fully Yoked Edition, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Subscribers can download them starting June 2 on PS4 and PS5. These monthly titles give members access to new games as part of their subscription.

Sony Interactive Entertainment announced the free PlayStation Plus Essential games for June 2026 on Tuesday. The lineup includes Grounded Fully Yoked Edition, Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Players can download the trio beginning Tuesday, June 2.

Grounded Fully Yoked Edition comes from Obsidian Entertainment. The game sends shrunken-down players to a danger-filled backyard in a fight for survival. As a solo player or with up to three friends in online multiplayer, players gather resources to build shelter, craft armor and weapons, and battle to protect themselves against fearsome creatures. Grounded's "Fully Yoked Edition" refers to the 1.4 update of the game released in 2024, which added new ant queens, new game plus content, and more. That's also when Grounded made the jump from Xbox and Windows PC to PlayStation platforms and Nintendo Switch. Grounded Fully Yoked Edition will be available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
New characters Squidward Tentacles, Jimmy Neutron, and the Angry Beavers join the roster.

Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2 is a platform brawler. It lets players smash it up SpongeBob SquarePants style in Nickelodeon's game. The sequel builds on the original Smash Bros.-inspired game with voice acting for all of its characters, cross-play on all platforms, and a visual overhaul. New characters Squidward Tentacles, Jimmy Neutron, and the Angry Beavers join the roster. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 also includes a roguelike story campaign and a bunch of minigames to keep solo players busy. Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2 is available on PS4 and PS5. Nickelodeon All Star Brawl 2 is not available in Korea through PlayStation Plus.
POST FROM @PlayStation· official announcement tweet from PlayStation account matching the article's June 2026 PS Plus Essential games lineup
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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the Left 4 Dead-inspired follow-up to Warhammer: Vermintide 2. It is a cooperative first-person shooter where you and a ragtag crew are hauled off on a series of harrowing missions for the fascist Imperium. The goal is to smash your way through the Nurgle-infected horde so that you might come back home to your Inquisitor’s starship and central hub, The Mourningstar, and do it all again. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is available on PS5.
It is a cooperative first-person shooter where you and a ragtag crew are hauled off on a series of harrowing missions for the fascist Imperium.

PlayStation Plus subscribers can still pick up May 2026’s PlayStation Plus Essential games — EA Sports FC 26, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, and Nine Sols — through June 1. EA Sports FC 26 will remain available as a PlayStation Plus monthly game through June 16.

PlayStation Plus Essential is the lowest tier of Sony’s subscription game service. It offers online multiplayer access, a monthly assortment of free PS4 and PS5 games, cloud storage, and discounts on PlayStation Store purchases. PlayStation Plus Essential costs $79.99 annually, $27.99 for a three-month subscription, or $10.99 monthly, following a recent price hike across all tiers of PS Plus.
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