PlayStation has revealed the three games coming to PlayStation Plus Essential, Extra, and Premium members in June. The official post on the PlayStation Blog highlights a trio of heavily multiplayer experiences: the oversized survival of Grounded Fully Yoked Edition, the cartoon brawling of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, and the grimdark co-op shooting of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Grounded Fully Yoked Edition
Obsidian Entertainment’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids fantasy is already a few years old, but the Fully Yoked Edition bundles everything released so far. If you never hopped into the backyard, this is the version to grab. The premise puts four teens—and up to four players—into a suburban yard where everything from ants to spiders is a towering threat. The Fully Yoked Edition added New Game+ and quality-of-life improvements, making the survival-crafting loop tighter. It supports online co-op, so you can draft friends into your tiny war against nature.
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
The original Nick Brawl had a rocky start, but the sequel cleaned up a lot of the jank. All-Star Brawl 2 adds voice acting for every character, a campaign that gives some structure to the chaos, and mechanics like Slime Burst that shift the meta. The roster spans SpongeBob, the TMNT, Rocko, and more. Post-launch updates brought cross-play, which should help the online queue when the PS Plus floodgates open. It’s not Smash, but it’s a competent alternative with a lot of personality.
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Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Fatshark’s follow-up to Vermintide 2 swaps rat-men for the corrupted hordes of the 41st millennium. Darktide is a first-person co-op shooter built around four-player missions, class-based progression, and a grim, industrial aesthetic that sells the scale of the hive city. It landed on PS5 later than other platforms, so this is the first time many console-only players will get it at no extra cost. The combat is chaotic, the soundtrack slaps, and the melee has the same weight that made Vermintide sing.
GamerHeadlines Takeaway
If you’ve got a group, June’s PS Plus batch offers three distinct flavours of multiplayer. Grounded is the slow-burn survival timesink, All-Star Brawl 2 is the casual couch-and-online brawler, and Darktide is the sweaty co-op shooter. The games will be claimable from the first week of June until early July, as usual. Even if you only stick with one, it’s a subscription cycle that justifies itself.
