F1 25 Headlines PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October

Sony confirmed the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October on September 30, and the Essential-tier lineup leads with a current-generation racer for the first time in months. F1 25 headlines a three-game drop alongside Crytek's extraction shooter Hunt: Showdown 1896 and the cooperative chaos of Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2. All three become playable on October 6 and stay claimable through November 2.

01What's in October's PlayStation Plus Lineup

Sony Interactive Entertainment's Adam Michel, Senior Director of Content Acquisition and Operations, announced the trio in a post on the PlayStation Blog, pairing a licensed sports sim with two very different co-op shooters. The spread covers racing, horror-tinged extraction and light-hearted squad shooting in one update, which is a wider genre mix than September's lineup offered.

“Race for podium glory in F1 25, take on monsters and other players in Hunt: Showdown 1896, then battle voxel versions of EDF enemies in Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2.”Adam Michel, Senior Director, Content Acquisition & Operations, Sony Interactive Entertainment

02F1 25: Career Mode, My Team 2.0 and the New F1 World Mode

F1 25 is EA Sports and Codemasters' current entry in the official Formula One license, covering the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship. On PS5, subscribers get the full single-player suite: Career mode, the expanded My Team 2.0 (where you run a team as owner rather than just drive for one), and the third chapter of the Braking Point story mode. The headline addition for existing owners and new players alike is F1 World, a multiplayer mode that lets squads race together against AI-driven opposition rather than strictly against other human drivers. It is the most mechanically dense of the three games and the one most likely to keep PS Plus members logging in week over week through the rest of the F1 calendar.

03Hunt: Showdown 1896 Brings Crytek's Extraction Shooter to the Lineup

Hunt: Showdown 1896 is Crytek's rebuilt, CryEngine-powered relaunch of its PvPvE extraction shooter, originally released on PS5 in August 2024. The PlayStation Blog describes it as "a new era of the addictively unforgiving extraction shooter," set in corrupted, swamp-choked backwaters where players hunt supernatural bosses alone or in teams of up to three. The loop is unchanged from the original Hunt: Showdown: track a Bounty, kill it, bank the reward, then fight your way to an extraction point while other Hunters (and worse) try to take it from you. A free Starter Pack bundle for the game goes live for PS Plus members on October 6, the same day the Monthly Games unlock.

04Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2's Voxel Co-op Chaos

Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 is the odd one out tonally: a cooperative, voxel-art shooter set on a cube-shaped planet under alien invasion. Players recruit a roster of blocky teammates and build four-member squads, mixing redesigned enemies pulled from earlier EDF titles with threats built for this entry. It supports four-player online co-op as well as two-player local split-screen, making it the easiest of the three to play casually with a second controller on the couch. It is also the only one of the three available on both PS5 and PS4, so it is the pick if your household is still running last-gen hardware.

05Bonus Content and Spooky Season Drops

Beyond the three Monthly Games, Sony is rolling out a run of October bonus packs for PS Plus members. A Call of Duty: Warzone Horror Bundle lands October 1, the new Hunt: Showdown 1896 Starter Pack follows on October 6 alongside the Monthly Games unlock, and an Overwatch 2 Dragur Reinhardt skin plus five tier skips arrives October 7. Sony is framing the run as spooky-season content layered on top of the regular Monthly Games cadence, and full details on the exclusive packs are listed on the PlayStation Store.

06How and When to Claim the October Games

F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 become claimable for any active PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra or Premium subscriber starting Tuesday, October 6, through the PlayStation Store or console library. The claim window runs until Monday, November 2, after which the three titles roll off the list and September's games are removed from new claims. As with every Monthly Games drop, once a title is added to your library it stays playable for as long as your PlayStation Plus subscription remains active, even after it cycles out of the current lineup for new members.