Death Stranding 2 Joins PS Plus Extra as GTA 5 Leaves, Two Days Before GTA 6

Sony’s November refill of the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog is a heavy one, led by Hideo Kojima’s latest delivery epic and three other major releases. The timing matters more than the list. The new games unlock on the same morning that Rockstar’s current Grand Theft Auto and its western epic leave the catalog, and two days before the next Grand Theft Auto goes on sale.

Two other details sit further down the same announcement. Subscribers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan, usually first in line, wait an extra week for part of the lineup. And at the very bottom, under its own heading, Sony says it is closing the PlayStation Plus app on PC.

Death Stranding 2 and three big names arrive on November 17

The catalog is the rental shelf that comes with the Extra and Premium tiers. According to the PlayStation Blog post, written by Sony’s Adam Michel, this month’s additions are Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (PS5), Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (PS5, PS4), Atomfall (PS5, PS4), Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (PS5), Trepang2 (PS5), MotoGP 26 (PS5), Hell Let Loose (PS5) and Cricket 26 – The Official Game of the Ashes (PS5, PS4). Premium members also get Soul Reaver 2 and Freedom Wars Remastered, both on PS5 and PS4.

Death Stranding 2 is the headline, and it is Sony’s own game. Kojima Productions developed it and Sony Interactive Entertainment published it on PS5 on June 26, 2025. A PC version built with Nixxes Software followed on Steam and the Epic Games Store on March 19, 2026. The catalog debut comes about seventeen months after the console launch. Sam is back, this time trying to connect Australia to the Chiral Network.

The rest of the month is unusually deep. Pirate Yakuza puts Goro Majima, now an amnesiac pirate captain, on the open sea. Atomfall comes from Rebellion, the Sniper Elite studio, and is set in a quarantine zone in northern England five years after the Windscale nuclear disaster. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake reworks the game that begins the Erdrick Trilogy.

The US, UK and Japan wait a week for part of it

The release order is where the announcement gets odd. Gematsu’s breakdown makes it explicit: Atomfall, Death Stranding 2 and Dragon Quest III arrive on November 17 worldwide. Pirate Yakuza arrives on November 17 everywhere except the US, the UK and Japan, which get it on November 24. Trepang2, MotoGP 26 and Cricket 26 follow the same pattern in the US and the UK.

Push Square calls this Sony’s new experiment with delaying catalog games in select regions, and notes the staggered rollout is happening again. Sony’s post gives no reason for it. The one upside goes to the same markets: Hell Let Loose, the 100-player Second World War shooter, went live in the US and the UK on November 11 and in Japan on November 12, a week before everyone else.

The delay has a concrete cost for cricket fans. Push Square’s list of departures includes Cricket 24 on November 17. In the UK, Cricket 26 does not arrive until November 24, which leaves a week with neither game in the catalog.

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leave the same morning

The new games share their date with the monthly removals. On November 17, Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 leave Extra along with Football Manager 26, The Talos Principle 2, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom and several smaller titles. Push Square counts 11 departures. Notebookcheck counts 12 from the US PlayStation Store, which shows how the list varies by region. Once a game is gone, the only way to keep playing it is to buy it.

Two days later, on November 19, Grand Theft Auto VI launches with a rolling midnight release by country. Sony says it is the most pre-ordered game in PlayStation Store history. A subscriber who was replaying GTA V in the run-up loses it 48 hours before its sequel arrives, and gets Kojima’s game in its place.

Sony closes PlayStation Plus on PC from December 10

The last section of the post retires the PlayStation Plus app on PC from December 10. Sony’s explanation is a single number: “With a very small number of eligible PlayStation Plus Premium members (less than 0.4%) using the PlayStation Plus app on PC, making this change allows us to focus on enhancing high-quality experiences that more of our members want to use.”

That figure measures a product Sony kept small. Push Square points out that the PC app only ever streamed PS4 and PS3 games and never added the PS5 library, and that the download pages on PlayStation.com have already been taken down. Its editor reads the shutdown as part of a broader move by Sony away from PC. Cloud streaming for Premium stays on PS5, PS4 and PS Portal, and Remote Play is unchanged. Sony says it will contact affected users directly.

What the catalog costs and how long games stay

In the US, PlayStation Plus Extra costs $16.99 a month, $43.99 for three months or $134.99 a year. Premium, the tier with the classics and cloud streaming, costs $19.99, $54.99 and $159.99. Essential, at $10.99 a month, does not include the catalog. Its monthly games work differently: claimed games stay playable for as long as the membership lasts. Catalog games stay only until Sony rotates them out, as this month’s departures show. Sony also notes that lineups can differ by region and advises checking the PlayStation Store on release day.

From December 10, a PC owner paying $159.99 a year for Premium can no longer stream its catalog on that computer, while Sony keeps selling this month’s catalog headliner on Steam.

Tags: Grand Theft Auto VI, PlayStation Plus, game subscriptions, Death Stranding 2, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii