The notice popped up on PS5s without ceremony: GTA V leaves the PS Plus catalog on November 17, and the notification suggests one last trip to Los Santos, with a second button beside it to pre-order GTA 6. The setup has no subtext, just a calendar. GTA 6 arrives on November 19, two days later. Today is the 12th. On Game Pass, Football Manager 26 left on the 10th and the other 13 games on the list leave on the 15th, a Sunday. On PS Plus, the games on the list leave by Tuesday the 17th, when the new batch of the catalog arrives, and Sony confirmed 12 titles. If you saw 11 somewhere else, you didn't misread. PlayStation LifeStyle's list marks several games as applying only in certain regions, and the gap may come from that, though I couldn't confirm it. #### Thirteen games, one Sunday The Game Pass list has no name that pulls crowds, but it has volume: 1000xRESIST, Barbie Horse Trails, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Firefighting Simulator: The Squad, GoldenEye 007, Great God Grove, Moonlighter, Pigeon Simulator, Police Simulator: Patrol Officers, Relic Hunters Legend, Total Chaos, Winter Burrow and Wreckfest. The two that made the most noise were Dragon Ball and GoldenEye, which makes sense. GoldenEye joined Game Pass in January 2023, almost four years in the catalog, and it was only available on console and in the cloud. If you played it on PC, you never had it there. 1000xRESIST is the stranger case. It arrived in November last year and leaves a little over a year later, a short cycle for a small narrative game. What you lose in practice is access, not progress. If you buy one of these games after it leaves, your saves stay where you left them, and if you already owned it, you won't notice anything. While the games remain in the catalog, subscribers get up to 20% off the purchase, and that window closes at the same time as access. The discount only pays off if you already have hours in. Otherwise it's one less game in the pile. One detail strikes me as more interesting than the list. Football Manager 27 became playable on Game Pass on the 10th, the day 26 left, and 26 still has another week on PS Plus. The two services also cut at different rhythms. Game Pass slices the exits into separate dates: the wave on the 15th will be followed by another on the 30th. When I checked, that second list hadn't come out yet. PS Plus concentrates everything on one day, which is why the Rockstar pair gets all the attention. #### Why GTA V and Red Dead leave right now The short answer is GTA 6. The longer one has two layers. The first is the coincidence of dates. TheGamer describes both departures as a Rockstar ploy to get as many people as possible to buy GTA 6. I find the reading plausible but unproven. I found no statement from Sony or Rockstar linking the dates. And GTA V has already had three separate stints in PS Plus Extra since December 2023, and Red Dead 2 is on its third. These games come and go from the catalog regardless, and nobody has announced whether they return. The history suggests they do, without warning. The second layer is GTA+, Rockstar's own subscription. Anyone who pre-orders a digital GTA 6 on the PlayStation Store or Microsoft Store gets a month of GTA+, and the pre-order has to be made before November 20. GTA V joined the GTA+ list of games in June. In other words, the game leaves Sony's library and stays reachable in the publisher's, which Rockstar controls. There's a catch. PlayNews says that after the free month the subscription renews and costs €7.99. Sites also disagree on the deadline to redeem the offer: some say March 31, 2027 and others say 180 days after purchase. Check in the store, and if you redeem, set a reminder. What I didn't find was any announcement that GTA 6 will land in a subscription catalog. #### The other ten In the middle of the noise, PS Plus also loses Football Manager 26, Thank Goodness You're Here, The Talos Principle 2, Cricket 24, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, Hotshot Racing, Rock of Ages 3, Earth Defense Force 4.1, Rapala Fishing Pro Series and Yet Another Zombie Defense HD. Nobody will write headlines about these. If I had to point to one that deserves more attention than it will get, it would be The Talos Principle 2. #### If all you have is this weekend Today is Thursday. Game Pass closes on Sunday and PS Plus on Tuesday. The GTA V campaign takes between 30 and 50 hours, according to ComicBook, which doesn't fit in five days for anyone with a job. The useful question becomes which game you can still see through to the end, not which one is best on the list. On Game Pass, the realistic candidates are the ones TrueAchievements puts in the 20-hour bracket, GoldenEye and Wreckfest, or one of the shorter ones. If you have both subscriptions, the order is the order of the deadlines: Game Pass first, PS Plus after. It's simple and a bit boring, but it works. If you only have PS Plus and are thinking of picking up GTA V or Red Dead for the first time, keep in mind that ten new games arrive on the 17th, among them Death Stranding 2 and Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. What leaves doesn't go without a replacement. Starting a 50-hour game on the eve of the cutoff is a decision worth making with a cool head. Pigeon Simulator also leaves on Sunday. Noted. --- - Every Game Coming To And Leaving PS Plus In November 2026, TheGamer, consultado a 12/11/2026: https://www.thegamer.com/every-game-added-ps-plus/ - Games Leaving PlayStation Plus in November 2026 Confirmed, PlayStation LifeStyle, 19/10/2026: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2026/10/19/games-leaving-ps-plus-extra-premium-november-2026 - Sony reveals 12 games leaving PlayStation Plus in November 2026, Notebookcheck, final de outubro de 2026: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Sony-reveals-12-games-leaving-PlayStation-Plus-in-November-2026.1435193.0.html