PS Plus Extra and Premium members should check their PS5/PS4 libraries before grabbing anything from the October 2025 lineup. Yakuza: Like a Dragon was included in the PS Plus Essential monthly lineup in August 2022; if you redeemed it then and installed the Extra version today, your Essential entitlement will be permanently overwritten. Downloading from Extra replaces the Essential license.

We’ve been flagging this issue since Sony revamped PS Plus, and it still hasn’t been fixed. My last piece on this topic was published a year ago, and I’m still receiving reports from players who lose access after making this mistake.

Here’s the catch: if you first claimed a game via the monthly Essential offering and later install that same title from the PS Plus Extra catalog, the Extra install overrides your Essential entitlement. Essential titles remain tied to your account under that subscription, but Extra/Premium catalog entries aren’t owned; once you re-download an Essential-claimed game via Extra, the original license is superseded — and when the game leaves Extra, you can’t play it unless you buy it.

Sony Support Won’t Restore Overwritten Licenses

Before you download, confirm whether Yakuza: Like a Dragon already appears in your library as an Essential claim. If it doesn’t, go ahead and install it from Extra (it’s absolutely worth playing). If it does, avoid the Extra version to preserve your entitlement.

Source: PlayStation LifeStyle