PS5 officially has 5 must-play new games coming in May 2026

May is a great month for many things, like warmer weather, a holiday weekend when Memorial Day rolls around, and the school year winding down. More importantly, it’s also great for new video games. April saw a few must-play titles be released on PlayStation 5, like sci-fi epics Pragmata and Saros, and this month won’t be any different.

PS5 players will have a wide variety of games to choose from for their weekend gaming binges this month. Supermassive Games’ next horror title, a new Batman adventure, and more are all set to launch on PlayStation 5 in May.

1

Mixtape

Release date: May 7

Mixtape is a nostalgic narrative adventure about friends on their last night together before adulthood sends them their separate ways. Through listening to the songs that mean the most to them, they reflect on their lives together and all the moments, big and small, that have formed their relationships. “Our main angle was, ‘Remember when you defined yourself by what you enjoyed? Remember when you defined yourself by music and art, and that’s how you judged everyone else?’” creative director Johnny Galvatron told Polygon earlier this year.

2

Call of the Elder Gods

Release date: May 12

Lovecraftian style and spooks permeate the puzzle-filled adventure of Call of the Elder Gods. It’s a sequel to 2020’s Call of the Sea, and brings back Professor Harry Everhart. Together with his student Evangeline Drayton, the pair investigates ancient horrors. It takes inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft’s novella The Shadow Out of Time as Everhart and Drayton will have to solve puzzles and piece together a mystery across time and space.

3

Directive 8020

Release date: May 12

Until Dawn was one of the PlayStation 4’s best console exclusives, and developer Supermassive Games took its choice-based narrative formula and used it for several more horror games in the decade since, like The Dark Pictures games and The Quarry. It’s back with its next horror game this month, Directive 8020, which takes the frights to space. Just like Aphelion, it follows astronauts on a journey looking for a new home as Earth is dying. They crash land on a strange planet and are hunted by an alien straight out of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

4

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Release date: May 22

Though it’s not a new Batman Arkham title, it might be the next best thing: Batman is back starring in a new video game this month, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. It’ll be a mix of open-world exploration, action-packed combat, and puzzle solving. “In terms of blocky designs and top-notch animation quality, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight was exactly what I expected when I played the demo,” our preview said. As the name implies, Legacy of the Dark Knight pulls inspiration from several eras of Batman media, and the reveal trailer parodied movie scenes like Bane and Batman’s clash in The Dark Knight Rises.

5

007 First Light

Release date: May 27

007 First Light‘s James Bond isn’t the intelligence agent you know him as — at least not yet. He’s young and inexperienced, and 007 First Light will give him an origin story that pits him against Lenny Kravitz. “[First Light] is about a young man looking for purpose that finds destiny,” cinematic and narrative director Martin Emborg said to Polygon of its hero. If you want to keep 007 First Light unspoiled, be careful over the next few weeks because footage full of spoilers for the game leaked in April. At least you can rock out to Lana Del Rey’s Bond theme spoiler-free.