PlayStation Plus November 2026 Monthly Games: Dead Island 2, More

Sony confirmed the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for November 2026 on October 28, and the lineup leans hard into comfort-food genres: an open-world zombie RPG, a trio of remastered Lara Croft classics, and a deckbuilding roguelite sequel. All three are included at the Essential tier, so you don't need an Extra or Premium subscription to add them to your library — Monthly Games have always been the one PS Plus perk every paying tier gets in full.

01What's Coming to PlayStation Plus in November 2026

Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV – VI Remastered, and Monster Train 2 become available to claim on Tuesday, November 3, and you have until Monday, November 30 to add them to your library. Once claimed, they stay playable for as long as your PS Plus subscription stays active, the same as any other Monthly Game, which is the key difference from the Extra and Premium catalogs: those titles can be pulled from the service on short notice, but a claimed Monthly Game is yours to keep downloading as long as you keep paying.

02Dead Island 2: Slay Zombies in HELL-A

Dead Island 2 (PS5, PS4) drops you into a zombie-ravaged Los Angeles that developer Dambuster Studios and publisher Deep Silver nicknamed HELL-A. You play a survivor who turns out to be immune to the outbreak, which means you spend the campaign carving through hordes with a deliberately over-the-top selection of melee weapons rather than ducking out of every fight. The RPG structure sends you through recognizable LA and Beverly Hills locations, picking up quests from a cast of eccentric survivors along the way, all wrapped in the pulpy, self-aware tone the series has leaned into since its long and troubled road to release in April 2023.

If you'd rather not go it alone, Dead Island 2 supports online three-player co-op across its full campaign, so this is a reasonable pick to play through with friends who also grab it during the claim window. The combat is built around a dismemberment system that reacts to where and how you hit enemies, which is still one of the more distinctive takes on melee zombie combat on the platform.

03Tomb Raider IV – VI Remastered: The Darkness Trilogy

The second new addition bundles three classic Lara Croft adventures — Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider: Chronicles, and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness — known collectively as the Darkness Trilogy. As with the earlier Tomb Raider I – III Remastered collection, you can swap between the original polygonal models and the remastered visuals on the fly, which is a genuinely useful way to see how much the lighting and texture work has changed without losing the original's stiff, deliberate platforming feel.

This is the back half of Lara's PS1-era adventures, and it's a notably rougher ride than the first collection — The Angel of Darkness in particular is infamous for its unfinished-feeling combat and pacing, so go in expecting a game that's more interesting as history than as a smooth modern playthrough.

04Monster Train 2: A Deckbuilding Run Through Heaven and Hell

Monster Train 2 (PS5 only) is the one new release in the lineup, having launched on PC and consoles in May 2025 from developer Shiny Shoe and publisher Big Fan Games. It's a single-player deckbuilding roguelite that follows the original's pitch almost exactly: you command a makeshift alliance of former angels and demons riding a train through Hell, Heaven, and the Abyss, trying to take down the Titans who've seized control of Heaven. The sequel adds five new clans and three vertical levels per train car to defend, which means more simultaneous threats to juggle than the original's single lane of combat.

The original Monster Train was published by Good Shepherd Entertainment and became one of the better-regarded roguelike deckbuilders of its generation, so a PS Plus-exclusive-to-PS5 debut for the sequel is a notable get for anyone who missed it on PC the first time around.

05When You Can Claim Them

The claim window opens Tuesday, November 3, 2026 and runs through Monday, November 30, 2026. Add the games from the PlayStation Store or the PS app before that date closes if you want to keep them in your library long-term — Monthly Games aren't automatically added just because you're subscribed when they're announced, and missing the window means waiting for a potential future re-run or buying the game outright.

06Don't Miss October's Monthly Games

Before you move on to November, PlayStation Plus members still have until Monday, November 2 to add October's Monthly Games — Hunt: Showdown 1896, EA Sports F1 25, and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 — to their library. After that date, they're replaced in the claimable lineup by Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV – VI Remastered, and Monster Train 2, so anyone who hasn't grabbed the October trio yet only has a few days left to do it before the switch.