Owners of a PlayStation Plus subscription have a lot to look forward to this week, as September 2025 sees a variety of new games arriving for players to try for the first time. However, with several games also leaving, you’ll want to experience some titles before they disappear. From highly celebrated adventures to reimaginings of iconic RPGs, there’s plenty for you to discover.

Tons of popular titles on PS Plus remain available on the service throughout the first week of September 2025. Those who have the PS Plus Premium subscription even have access to 2-hour “trials” of some games, yet still have to buy them afterward. A good example of this is Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2, which you can try out for a short time before deciding to purchase it.

Viewfinder

Extensive And Mind-Bending Puzzles In Fascinating Environments

Viewfinder is a game coming to PS Plus this week, featuring incredibly immersive puzzles across a variety of colorful levels. This game bends reality based on your whim, as you can use pictures and artwork to create physical environments within a level. This game showcases a technical mastery of puzzle mechanics, with light platforming and obstacles that truly reward inventive problem-solving.

The mind-bending puzzles come from the player’s ability to reshape Viewfinder‘s world with an instant camera. Essentially, you “imprint” the camera’s imagery onto the landscape, redefining its perception to explore and find solutions to various obstacles.

Hardly any other game, let alone other good puzzle games, has the amount of freedom you’ll experience in Viewfinder. The narrative adventure has plenty of twists and turns as you use the camera, postcards, paintings, sketches, and other works of art to manipulate the world into whatever you want it to be.

Hollow Knight Voidheart Edition

Experience One Of The Finest Metroidvanias Before Silksong Releases

Hollow Knight: Silksong is releasing this week on September 4, 2025, which means that Hollow Knight Voidheart Edition should be a must-play this week for those who’ve never played one of the best modern Metroidvania titles. With gorgeous artwork across a haunting world, this game is an artistic masterpiece thanks to its beautiful 2D frame-by-frame animation.

The world of the Hallownest is incredibly expansive, but players can explore it however they choose in the original Hollow Knight. Your mission is to descend into the vast, interconnected environment, slowly growing stronger as you defeat enemies and progress. Over 30 bosses and 130 unique enemies exist in the Hallownest, each with unique animations and combat styles for you to fight.

The combat systems in Hollow Knight are excellent as well, with swift movements creating an acrobatic style of fighting that is highly responsive to player input. With many skills, spells, and abilities to unlock, mastering both exploring and fighting is greatly satisfying across the ever-evolving world.

The many characters you meet in this game also change and adapt as you progress through it. This dynamic approach to the game’s narrative makes Hallow Knight‘s world feel incredibly lived in, with figures who only add to the immersion. With Silksong‘s highly anticipated release promising an upgrade on all fronts, this is the perfect time to see what generated such hype for the sequel in the first place.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake

One Of The Greatest RPGs Of All Time Returns

PS Plus’ next free games are set to include Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the follow-up title to Final Fantasy 7 Remake. With this larger, open-world sequel on the way, players should try the original remake that brought back characters from the classic RPG, from Cloud and Barret to Tifa and Aerith.

This game changes the original FF7‘s turn-based combat into an action system, allowing you to control multiple diverse characters in battle. From using Cloud’s Buster Sword to slice down Shinra soldiers to punching sewer-dwelling monsters with Tifa’s fists, the fighting in this game is inventive and fast-paced.

The ATB gauges your characters build in combat eventually allow you to do a variety of actions, from unleashing special moves to casting spells using Materia. With every enemy having a different weakness, you can learn to build stagger on your foes by synergizing your party’s abilities together in adaptive ways.

Although the combat is a highlight, the story of FF7 Remake is where it shines. This game brings back the storyline of the original Final Fantasy 7, following SOLDIER First Class Cloud as he arrives in the industrial city of Midgard. Even if you are familiar with FF7‘s story, there are still some new elements that will surprise you.

The characters of FF7 Remake are incredibly diverse, both in their stories and how they act in battles. The investment you feel for each party member allows you to get immersed in the story, which takes you on an adventure throughout Midgar, where enough twists and turns will impact the lives of those within it forever.

Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is a new game on PS Plus this month, and still remains one of the most popular survival games you can play. This game is celebrated for many reasons, some of which include:

• Detailed plant growing and cultivation mechanics to let you grow your own farm.
• 8-player multiplayer for massive projects with your friends.
• 30 different characters that each have their own story, including some romance options.
• Cooking, Fishing, Mining, and other survival systems.
• Natural progression of time over multiple weather seasons.

The amount of things you can do in Stardew Valley can keep you playing for hundreds of hours. For example, your character can help rebuild the town near their grandfather’s farm that they inherited, or travel into dangerous mines to harvest valuable resources. Alternatively, you could hunt down rare artifacts to donate to the local museum, or take the time to customize your house exactly to your liking.

With thousands of different items that all serve a unique purpose, you’ll find that few games have such attention to detail as this one. Some of Stardew Valley‘s crops only grow during certain times of the day within specific seasons, while some fish only spawn in select areas when different conditions are met.

What makes this game so enjoyable is just the learning process for each of its deep systems. Becoming a skilled farmer will take time and effort, but the long journey is more than worth it as you transform a struggling community into a vibrant space entirely customized through your hard work.

Psychonauts 2

Cerebral Adventure With Psychic Flair

Next to Stardew Valley, Psychonauts 2 is another great game coming to PS Plus this week. This cinematic action-adventure title is a follow-up to the 2005 platforming classic, which blended 3D environments with mind-bending psychic puzzles and level design. That philosophy is reflected and expanded upon by the sequel, which brings back everything great seen in the original.

In this game, you play as Razputin “Raz” Aquato, a young psychic who can enter the minds of others in acts of espionage for the Psychonauts organization. The story of Psychonauts 2 follows Raz trying to find a mole in the organization, entering the minds of friends and foes to track down a mysterious psychic killer.

Each of the minds you explore in Psychonauts 2 is vastly unique from one another, creating vast levels to explore that reflect the mental desires, fears, and ideas of the host. The quirky, adventurous feel of this game is dotted with fun humor in a charming story that harkens back to classic titles like Ratchet and Clank or Jak and Daxter.

Raz has a variety of psychic powers he can use to manipulate the minds he dives into, from blasting and burning objects to evening slowing down time. These psychic abilities give you creative ways to overcome puzzles, environmental obstacles, or even tough enemies that lurk within the troubled minds of those Raz explores.

The acrobatic movement and psychic intrigue of this game make it a great, digestible adventure to experience while it remains on PS Plus. Many of the new games featured in PlayStation Plus for the first week of September 2025 are worth trying, so get ready to sink your teeth into some great titles as autumn approaches.