How To Gameshare on PS5 – A Definitive Guide [2025]

If you’re looking to enjoy new games every day without having to pay a single penny for it, the PlayStation 5’s game share feature is certainly a perfect match for you. It allows you to share games and a PlayStation Plus subscription. You can enjoy new titles every day by sharing games among your loved ones. In this article we will discuss about most common ways on how to gameshare on PS5.

However, to be able to share games with your companions, you first need to make some necessary tweaks and enable Gameshare in PS5. Typically, what you need to do is link a PlayStation account to your console that allows others to discover the games available on your console and vice versa. It greatly resonates with the “Primary Console” option of PlayStation 4.

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3 Easy Steps to Enable Gameshare on PS5

Whether you’re a vetted professional gamer or an amateur newbie, it can be quite complex to enable the Gameshare feature on PlayStation 5, especially when you’ve never done it before. With that said, let us take a look at the step-by-step procedure that you need to follow to enable the Gameshare option on PS5:

• Enable Offline Play and Console Sharing

Firstly, you have to sign in with your PlayStation Network account on your console and navigate to the “settings” option located at the top-right corner of the screen. Among the various options listed, choose the “User and Accounts” option, followed by choosing the “Other” option located at the bottom of your screen.

“Console Sharing and Offline Play” will appear on a new interface. As you may have already guessed, you have to choose this option to proceed. Now, if your console displays a message “You don’t have a PS5 with console sharing and offline play enabled”, then you shall proceed further with the tutorial.

At this point, you have to choose the “Don’t Enable” option and press the back button on your controller to access the main menu. Alternatively, in case your console shows the message “Console sharing and offline play is enabled”, then make sure you disable it before quitting to the main menu again to be able to cope up with the tutorial.

• Login to Your PlayStation Network Account

Make sure you pay greater attention to this step as it can completely make or break your efforts so far. To access and play games from your friend’s console, you have to sign in with their account on your console. This can be done pretty easily by clicking on your picture located at the top-right corner of the screen and choosing the “Switch User” option from the drop-down menu.

This will open another drop-down menu where you need to choose the “Add User” option, followed by selecting the “Get Started” button to add another PlayStation network account permanently to the console. Ensure that you have the right credentials for your friend's account to be able to properly login with it.

• Enable Console Sharing

After you’re done with this step, you’ll be able to play your friend’s games on your PlayStation 5 console. Once you’ve logged in to their account, you just need to click on the gear icon located at the top-right corner of the screen and click on the “Users and Accounts” option, followed by choosing the “Console Sharing and Offline Play” option.

At this point, the console should display a message “You don’t have a PS5 console with console sharing and offline play enabled” on your screen. Now you just have to choose the “Enable” option and the Gameshare feature will be successfully turned on for your console. If you want to share your games with your friend, ask them to reproduce the same steps in their console as well.

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What’s Next?

After you’ve signed in with your friends account and enabled the Gameshare option, games don’t magically appear on your PS5, ready to be played. Instead, they’ll take some time to be downloaded on your console. Once your desired games are downloaded successfully, you can simply revert back to your main account and enjoy playing your preferred titles.

However, keep in mind that you still need to have an active internet connection to play games available on your primary account as you’ve added a secondary account already. Even if one of you has access to PlayStation Plus, you both will be able to enjoy the benefits offered by it. Hopefully this guide helped you get started using the new PS5 Gameshare feature.