Monster Hunter Rise and PGA Tour 2K25 Headline the PS Plus Essential Games for March 2026

Feb 25, 2026 at 03:31pm EST
A promotional image for PlayStation Plus' 'March Monthly Games' featuring '2K25,' 'Slime Rancher 2,' 'Monster Hunter Rise,'

The PS Plus Essential games for March 2026 have been revealed, and after February's lineup added a couple of strong indie titles, this month's lineup of four games includes a few bigger names like PGA Tour 2K25 and Monster Hunter Rise headlining this month's batch.

Plays subscribed to the bottom tier of PS Plus or higher will get access to the two aforementioned games, along with Slime Rancher 2 and The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Gold Road next week starting on March 3, 2026. As always, if you want to access these games after this coming month, you'll need to add them to your library before they're gone.

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Speaking of adding these titles to your library, with next month's PS Plus Essential games arriving on March 3, that means March 2, 2026, will be your last chance to add February's games (Ultros, Undisputed, Subnautica: Below Zero, and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown), to your library.

It's not the most exciting of PS Plus Essential game batches, but if any of these games are within your wheelhouse, they'll all certainly be able to provide you with hours of gameplay to dig into, particularly in the case of The Elder Scrolls Online and Monster Hunter Rise.

The bright side of this batch is that PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium members are actually getting new games to add to their library, instead of what can often happen where the new batch of Essential games includes titles that PS Plus Extra and higher-tier subscribers already had access to through PS Plus.

About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.

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