PS plus Essential Games for December 2025 Announced
playstation Plus Essential subscribers will have three new games to download in December 2025: LEGO Horizon Adventures, The Outlast Trials, and Neon White.
LEGO Horizon Adventures, a kid-kind adaptation of Sony’s horizon series, leads the lineup. Push Square’s review awarded the title a 6/10, noting its “charming” translation of the source material but criticizing its “vacant and repetitive” level design. The review concluded: “On the one hand, this is a charming, kid-friendly take on Sony’s popular series that successfully translates the story, characters, and combat into the LEGO realm – and with real visual polish to boot. On the other, once the novelty wears off, level design feels vacant and repetitive, almost never engaging you with the sort of platforming or puzzle solving you might expect.”
Also available will be The Outlast Trials, a multiplayer spin-off of the survival horror series. Receiving a 7/10 score from Push Square, the game was praised for successfully adapting the series’ formula for co-op play. “It may not be the next single player terror fans of its predecessors are looking for, but the Outlast Trials successfully translates the series’ formula for a co-op setting. Hiding from gory psychopaths and utilising night vision is still the name of the game – now you simply do it alongside up to three friends online,” the review stated.
Rounding out the December 2025 selection is Neon White, a run-based platformer. push Square awarded Neon White an 8/10, highlighting its “slick, stylish, and modern” design and “compulsion to beat each level as fast as possible.”
written by Liam Croft, who grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. He now enjoys playing the latest PS5 games and supporting Derby County.
