The PlayStation Store has seen a quiet but much-needed shake-up this month, with several developers and their entire game catalogs suddenly delisted. While Sony has yet to make an official announcement, the recent PlayStation Store removals are targeted towards shovelware and intentionally deceptive games.
For years, the PlayStation Store has been flooded with low-effort shovelware and scam games, many of which are blatant rip-offs of popular PC titles. These games are often created quickly using cheap assets or AI-generated content, then marketed as console versions of hit indie or multiplayer games from Steam. The result is a cluttered storefront that majorly reduces visibility for genuine games, while also deceiving customers who may not be wary of such fraudulent endeavors.
Just earlier this month, Sony increased the wishlist size for the PlayStation Store, and now, the gaming giant has exiled three developers, namely Adventure Games, Gaming Dev, and Grizzly Games, from the storefront. PSNProfiles recently spotted that every single game listed under these three labels has vanished from the PlayStation Store. Sony’s ban hammer hasn’t been slammed out of the blue, though, as these developers published titles that blatantly copied or mimicked popular games like REPO, Escape the Backrooms, Lethal Company, Bodycam, The Exit 8, and more to mislead PlayStation users into purchasing them.
Adventure Games
R.E.P.O.: Ghost Haul
Supermarket Simulator 2025Gaming Dev
Beneath the Earth Backrooms
BioStorm
Clown Art
Exit 9 Metro
Lethal Corporation
Operation Bodycam
Pilot Flight Simulation
Supermarket Simulator 24Grizzly Games
Bodycam Shooter 2025
Drug Trader Simulator – Urban Dealer
SCP Foundation Universe Horror
Sunforge Solar Survival
The Lost Dino Survival Expedition
Vampires and Knights: Eclipse Survival and Magic Craft
VoidCraft Island Chronicles: Sky Survival
Zombie Blocks: Pixel Shooter Gun
Some of the scam games recently removed from the PlayStation Store include Supermarket Simulator 2025 by Adventure Games, Operation Bodycam and Exit 9 Metro by Gaming Dev, and SCP Foundation Universe Horror and VoidCraft Island Chronicles by Grizzly Games. It’s worth mentioning that the last one is not to be confused with GrizzlyGames, the developer behind Thronefall and Islanders.
Sony’s removal of these developers is a welcome step, and interestingly, this crackdown follows a similar one earlier this year, when RandomSpin Games was booted from the PlayStation Store in February 2025 for comparable infractions. While it’s not clear if Sony has introduced any new vetting processes, this marks the most aggressive move the company has made since then. Still, many rip-off games remain on the PlayStation Store, and new ones continue to appear faster than Sony seems able to address them. Hopefully, stricter curation and more proactive content moderation will be implemented for the PlayStation Store in the months ahead to better promote legitimate games.
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Source: https://gamerant.com/playstation-store-scam-games-shovelware-removed-sony/
