Sony confirmed the PlayStation Plus Essential lineup for July 2026 on July 1, adding three titles — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Cross-Gen Bundle), For the King II, and CrossCode — available at no additional cost from July 7 through August 3 on both PS5 and PS4. All three are claimable across every PS Plus tier: Essential, Extra, and Premium. Once added to your library, they remain playable as long as your subscription stays active. June’s lineup — Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide — stays claimable until July 7, so there are a few days left to grab those too. For background on how the reveal was delayed this month, more detail is on the site.
Three Games, One Month — What’s Actually in the Box
Use the tabs below to explore each title, check key dates, and compare PS Plus tiers at a glance.
Released on November 10, 2023, this is the 20th main Call of Duty title and the third in the rebooted Modern Warfare series. The campaign picks up right after Modern Warfare II — Captain Price and Task Force 141 are tracking down Vladimir Makarov, a Russian ultranationalist planning to trigger a third World War.
Multiplayer brings back all 16 maps that launched with the 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, now with upgraded graphics, new modes, and slide cancel mechanics. The open-world Zombies mode — co-developed with Treyarch — is the largest in franchise history and lets multiple squads team up in a PvE extraction format for the first time.
Queen Rosomon — once loved by her subjects — has turned against the realm of Fahrul, casting people into mine labour while building alliances with darker forces. You gather a party of up to four players (online co-op or solo) to fight back through procedurally generated maps where a dice roll can decide everything.
The sequel from IronOak Games launched on PC on November 2, 2023, and arrived on PS5 on December 12, 2024. It expands on the original’s roguelite-meets-tabletop formula with an updated engine, over 17 playable characters, grid-based turn-by-turn combat, and an Infinite Dungeon Mode for post-campaign play.
CrossCode is set inside a fictional MMORPG called CrossWorlds. You play as Lea — a character who wakes up inside the game world with no memory and no voice. The 16-bit SNES-style visuals are paired with fast-paced ball-throwing combat, elemental mechanics, and dungeon puzzles built after Zelda-style Action-Adventures.
Radical Fish Games spent seven years developing CrossCode, which launched on PC on September 20, 2018, and arrived on PS4 on July 9, 2020. The game features seven areas, over 90 learnable skills, and an expansion — CrossCode: A New Home — released February 26, 2021. It received generally favourable critical reception across review platforms.
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Alt Text: PlayStation Plus July 2026 free games lineup showing Call of Duty Modern Warfare III For the King II and CrossCode
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Alt Text: PlayStation Plus Essential Extra Premium subscription tier comparison
All three July games are included on every tier. Sony raised monthly and quarterly prices in May 2026 — annual plans remained unchanged. The three tiers break down as follows. PS Plus pricing on the official PlayStation site is the authoritative reference.
- ✓ Online multiplayer access for all PS5 and PS4 games
- ✓ Monthly free games — all three July titles included
- ✓ Exclusive PlayStation Store discounts on digital purchases
- ✓ 100 GB of cloud saves for game progress
- ✓ Share Play and game help features
- ✓ Everything in Essential
- ✓ Game Catalog — hundreds of downloadable PS4 and PS5 titles (note: new PS4 titles added only intermittently from January 2026)
- ✓ Ubisoft+ Classics titles included
- ✓ New catalog titles rotate in monthly
The PlayStation Plus July 2026 Essential lineup — Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, For the King II, and CrossCode — was covered above, with each title’s developer, genre, and key features noted. The claim window runs from July 7 to August 3, 2026, on PS5 and PS4, for subscribers on any PS Plus tier. Details on the August 2026 Xbox console price changes are available separately for context on subscription and hardware pricing across the industry.
For the Extra and Premium catalog, 12 titles leave on July 21, 2026, with new additions expected around the same date. Annual PS Plus pricing — $79.99 for Essential, $134.99 for Extra, $159.99 for Premium — was not changed in Sony’s May 2026 price adjustment, which affected only monthly and quarterly plans. More gaming news, including the GTA 6 pre-order breakdown, Haunted Chocolatier’s latest update from ConcernedApe, and Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Version 1.0.3 patch notes are available at The Game Tribune.