Sony adds EA Sports FC 26, Wuchang, and Nine Sols to PS Plus May lineup
Sony’s May PS Plus drop pairs a current-year football blockbuster with a fresh Soulslike and a stylish 2D action game, aiming at three very different player camps.
Sony packed its May PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup with a rare kind of range: a giant football release for the broadest possible audience, a newly minted Soulslike for the masochists, and a hand-drawn action-platformer for players who want something sharper and stranger than the usual subscription filler. EA Sports FC 26, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, and Nine Sols all became available to PlayStation Plus members on Tuesday, May 5, and Sony also threw in an EA Sports FC 26 PlayStation Plus Icons Pack as a bonus entitlement.
The strategy is obvious. Sony Interactive Entertainment used the monthly slot to chase three different reasons to subscribe and keep paying. Adam Michel, the company’s Director of Content Acquisition & Operations, framed the lineup as a broad sampler, and that is exactly what it looks like on paper. If you are an annual football player, EA Sports FC 26 is the main event. If you live for stamina bars, boss patterns, and punishment, Wuchang is the draw. If you want a more curated indie-style challenge, Nine Sols is the sleeper.
EA Sports FC 26 is the biggest name in the pile, and PlayStation leaned hard into its scale. The game carries 20,000-plus players across 750-plus clubs and national teams, with more than 120 stadiums and 35 leagues. It also gives players a split between Authentic Gameplay and Competitive Gameplay presets, which is a smart move for a series that has to serve both career-mode traditionalists and the Ultimate Team crowd. PlayStation highlighted Ultimate Team, Tournaments, Live Events, Rivals, and Champs, while Electronic Arts launched the game on September 26, 2025. That makes the PS Plus inclusion feel less like a deep-cut giveaway and more like a serious value play for anyone still waiting to bite.
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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers shifts the tone completely. Set in China’s late Ming Dynasty, it centers on a female pirate warrior in the land of Shu as a mysterious Feathering disease mutates people into monsters. 505 Games launched it on July 24, 2025, so its arrival on PS Plus lands quickly enough to tempt players who wanted to test the combat and buildcraft without paying launch price.
Nine Sols rounds out the month with a different kind of prestige. PlayStation calls it a lore-rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer with Sekiro-inspired, deflection-based combat, set in the Taopunk world of New Kunlun. That mix of Eastern mythology and cyberpunk aesthetics gives Sony a third lane that feels deliberately curated rather than padding. This is a stronger month for subscribers who like variety than for anyone looking for one unifying blockbuster, and that may be the point.
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