The PlayStation Plus Game Catalog additions for July 2026 are arriving in waves again, and the first one lands today, with Rise of the Rōnin available to Extra and Premium members in the U.S. right now. The staggered schedule Sony began testing in June continues for the U.S., the UK, and Japan, with the rest of this month’s additions split between July 21 and July 28. Every other region gets the full lineup on July 21.
Rise of the Rōnin kicks things off on PlayStation 5, an open-world action RPG from Team Ninja, the studio behind Nioh and Ninja Gaiden. Set in 1863 as the Black Ships of the West arrive and the Tokugawa Shogunate’s three-century reign starts to collapse, the game puts a nameless warrior in the middle of the era’s war, disease, and political unrest. It’s available today, July 15, in the U.S. and the UK and tomorrow in Japan, and the game is also available on PC after two years as a PlayStation console exclusive.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora follows on July 21 globally for PlayStation 5, taking players to the never-before-seen Western Frontier of Pandora. This first-person action-adventure casts you as a Na’vi abducted and raised by the militaristic RDA, freed 15 years later to reconnect with a lost heritage and rally clans against your former captors. Ubisoft has kept supporting the game since its 2023 launch, most recently with the From the Ashes DLC.
Joining Avatar on July 21 is Firefighting Simulator: Ignite on PlayStation 5, which puts you in the boots of a U.S. firefighter working a sprawling Midwest city. Fires, heat, and smoke are simulated in real time on Unreal Engine 5, and missions can be tackled in co-op with up to three friends or with an NPC crew.
The July 28 wave carries the pick of the month for anyone who missed it the first time: the original Dying Light on PlayStation 4. Techland’s 2015 parkour-and-zombies game holds up, and as we said in our review of Dying Light: The Beast, that follow-up is built for people who enjoyed this first game but came away disappointed by Dying Light 2. If you’ve never played it, the original’s co-op remains the way to experience it, and finishing it now sets you up for The Beast.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector arrives the same day on PlayStation 5, an RPG about an emulated human mind in an artificial body, on the run from the corporation that made it. You’ll commandeer a ship, build a crew, and take on contracts through dice-driven, tabletop-inspired systems that reinvent the award-winning original, and it works whether or not you played the first game.
Rounding out the July 28 wave are two lighter picks. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 is a 2D brawler where Robo Rita travels back in time to team up with her younger self and prevent the Power Rangers from ever forming. Snow Bros. Wonderland on PlayStation 5, meanwhile, revives the 30-year-old arcade series in a 3D isometric style, with players turning monsters into snowballs and kicking them through entire hordes.
PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers get two PS2 classics this month, both available globally on July 21. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is the 2004 action game built around telekinesis, mind control, and pyrokinesis, following agent Nick Scryer as he unravels the Mindgate Project. Indigo Prophecy is the first interactive drama from Quantic Dream, the studio behind the upcoming Star Wars: Eclipse, a paranormal thriller about ordinary New Yorkers becoming possessed and killing strangers, known as Fahrenheit in most regions outside North America on its original release.
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog July 2026 Lineup
PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium
- Rise of the Rōnin | PlayStation 5 | July 15
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora | PlayStation 5 | July 21
- Firefighting Simulator: Ignite | PlayStation 5 | July 21
- Dying Light | PlayStation 4 | July 28
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector | PlayStation 5 | July 28
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind | PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 | July 28
- Snow Bros. Wonderland | PlayStation 5 | July 28
PlayStation Plus Premium
- Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy | PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 | July 21
- Indigo Prophecy | PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 | July 21
