Can you delete a game purchased from the Playstation store then re-install without a subscription at a later date?
Ps4 – re-download digital copies of games I’ve purchased without Playstation Plus
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Best Answer
If you delete a digital game that you have purchased through the PSN, you can redownload it from the store as long as you are logged into the account that purchased it initially. I constantly delete and redownload games depending on what I feel like playing, as I do not have enough storage space on my PS4 to hold all of the things I have purchased digitally, so I can confirm this myself.
As a side note, PS+ is never required to access content that you have purchased, however, content given for free as a bonus for being a Playstation+ member will expire if your subscription expires and you will lose access to it.
To see games that you own (downloaded or not), look at your library. It will have all of the software you have licenses for. See here:
Here is some confirmation of this:
Here are the official Sony instructions on how to download digital copies of games.
As mentioned by Joe W, if the game has been removed from the store, you will not be able to re-download it once it has been deleted.
The only example I can think of like this is the Silent Hills demo P.T. that only a select number of users still have, since the demo was removed from the store and made unavailable for redownload.