PS5 players can look forward to Hardspace: Shipbreaker, while PS4 players gain access to LEGO City Undercover, Just Cause 3, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun and Surviving the Aftermath.

PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers can look forward to four classic titles. Rally Cross and Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace are playable on PS4 and PS5, with both titles released on the PS1. Street Fighter: 30th Anniversary Collection, Legend of Mana and Secret of Mana (the 2018 remake) are playable on PS4.

Thanks to backwards compatibility, all PS4 titles will also be playable on PS5. As for PS Plus Essential subscribers, check out the latest offerings here (which includes A Plague Tale: Requiem).

Teardown

Tuxedo Labs has delivered an enticing playground of destruction with Teardown, which lets you lose in complex levels with nothing but a set of tools and your imagination to pull off heists with increasing difficulty. The game features fully destructible environments with physics properties, and the game encourages you to smash walls and blow up stuff to chart the most efficient path to your objective and back to the starting point. The voxel based art style might look primitive at first, but it has its own distinct charm that will slowly grow on you as you spend more time with the game.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring is as perilous as any of the Souls games, but on a larger scale. Nevertheless, knowledge is power, from knowing enemy placements and patterns to weaknesses, and will ultimately tip the scales in your favor. The Full-Grown Fallingstar Beast and its asinine hitboxes can still die in a fire, though.

The biggest game of the bunch is Arkane Studios’ first person shooter Deathloop, which launches for Xbox now that its PlayStation exclusivity deal is over. The game is available for Game Pass today on PC, console, and cloud. Also available today is Hardspace: Shipbreaker for cloud and Xbox Series X/S.

September 22 will bring another three games to the service, with Slime Rancher 2 launching in early access for cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S, alongside SpiderHeck (for console and PC) and Beacon Pines (for cloud, console, and PC).

September 27 will see the long-awaited 1.0 launch for Obsidian Entertainment’s Grounded for cloud, console, and PC, as well as Moonscars for the same platforms. On September 29, another major survival game will become available for Game Pass on PC with Valheim, while Let’s Build a Zoo will join the service’s catalog on cloud, console, and PC.

Finally, on September 30, PAW Patrol Grand Prix will become available for cloud, console, and PC.

You can check out the full list of games added to Game Pass as part of the first wave for September 2022 through here.

In Hardspace: Shipbreaker, players take on the role of the titular Shipbreaker. Tasked with paying off their massive debt, players have to salvage ships with various tools and make enough money to escape the ever-crushing pressures of untethered capitalism.

The PC version of Hardspace: Shipbreaker exited its early access phase earlier this year, with its 1.0 update bringing along the final act of its campaign. Hardspace: Shipbreaker also has a few other game modes, including the R.A.C.E. game mode where players compete with each other through leaderboards.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker has been out on PC for a while, and is available for pre-order on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The game is set to hit consoles on September 20.

As a first-person title, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is set in the far future where players control a shipbreaker for the Lynx Corporation. Their job is to investigate procedurally generated derelict spaceships and recover any valuable salvage. Different tools, like a laser cutter, are necessary for the job but one must also be careful of cutting through the wrong wire and causing an explosion.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is currently exclusive to PC and playable on PC Game Pass. It’s also in development for Xbox One and PS4, though no release window is available. In the meantime, Blackbird Interactive is also working on Homeworld 3 for Gearbox Publishing and Minecraft: Legends in collaboration with Mojang.

Having left early access, Hardspace: Shipbreaker now features the final act of its campaign, bringing its story to a conclusion. Aside from the campaign, Hardspace: Shipbreaker has a few other game modes, including the R.A.C.E. game mode where players can compete with each other through the leaderboards, or even the Freeplace game mode that aims to offer a calming, meditative experience.

Thanks to its exit from early access, Hardspace: Shipbreaker now also has Ship Saving, allowing players to save their in-progress salvage for later. The game has also revamped its progression, with balancing based on feedback and data.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a game about salvaging old, derelict spaceships for a massive, uncaring corporation. The game leans heavily into its dystopian trappings, having players juggle their budgets, as well as their debts and quotas. It got a following thanks to its unique gameplay that emphasised the puzzle-solving nature of its shipbreaking.

Those that are already available are Her Story (PC), Jurassic World Evolution 2 (cloud, console, and PC),  Little Witch in the Woods (console and PC, part of Xbox Game Preview Program), Skate (Cloud, through EA Play), and Umurangi Generation Special Edition (cloud, console, and PC).

Games that are yet to be added include Farming Simulator 22 (May 19 – cloud, console, and PC), Vampire Survivors (May 19 – PC), Floppy Knights (May 24- cloud, console, and PC), Hardspace: Shipbreaker (May 24 – PC), Sniper Elite 5 (May 26 – PC, console), Cricket 22 (May 27 – PC), and Pacman: Museum+ (May 24- cloud, console, and PC).

In related news, Xbox Game Pass’ rumoured Family Plan is also supposedly set to release sometime in Fall 2022- read more on that through here.

Developed by Blackbird Interactive (which is also developing Homeworld 3), the story sees you playing as a salvager in space. You’ll explore various derelicts and cut them open in order to salvage valuable materials. Be careful though – it’s entirely possible to cause a chain reaction, destroying everything in the process.

Update 1.0 will feature Act 3 of the Campaign and conclude its story (though one can still continue playing afterwards). Another highly requested feature is Ship Saving which allows for bookmarking a ship that you’re currently working on and returning later. Progression is being smoothed out while bug fixes, optimization and improvements to stability are also being made. For more details, head here.

En route to its early access release in June, Blackbird Interactive’s Hardspace: Shipbreaker has received a new trailer. It provides a quick overview of the gameplay and what players can expect in this sci-fi sandbox. Check it out below.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker places you in the role of a salvager who’s main job is to cut up massive spaceships. Along with a cutter that can help detach valuable parts and materials, players will use a grappling hook to pull parts, navigate the environment and much more. Work Orders can also be undertaken which will help you rank up and gain access to better tools.

There are a number of ships to salvage and you need to be careful with what you’re cutting. Accidentally creating an opening in a pressurized room will cause all of the objects to go flying out. Removing a reactor can be valuable but only if you salvage it before it finishes melting down (and obliterating the space around it).

Hardspace: Shipbreaker enters early access for PC on June 16th and will also come to Xbox One and PS4 later.