As Sony removes over 700 shovelware games from the PlayStation Store, one impacted publisher pledges to continue using Xbox, Nintendo, and Steam: "This was just as unexpected for us as it was for you"

There are now slightly fewer games on the PlayStation Store, as Sony has removed everything from a pair of publishers who'd been pumping games onto the platform. Around 700 releases overall, many of which used generative AI assets, were deleted as part of ongoing efforts to clean up the offerings available.

The delisting was first noted by a user on the PSN Profiles forum, who noted that the entire catalog from Nostra Games is no longer available to buy. The outfit, notorious for putting out work such as Be A Bee, Angry Battalion, and Fridge Escape with regularity, had close to 90 games on the store, amounting to around 700 separate listings when including all regional versions.

"Unfortunately, PlayStation Store has removed our games, and we’re unable to provide an exact reason because it wasn’t shared with us either," Casstlgames, the manager and admin of Nostra's official Discord server, said in an announcement. "This was just as unexpected for us as it was for you, as we had planned to continue releasing games in the coming years, and you’ve already seen some of them, but unfortunately, this is how things turned out."

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They confirmed Nostra will still be releasing on the Xbox, Switch, and Steam marketplaces. Many of the company's more recent games include AI assets in one way or another, contributing to their mixed reputation.

Another publisher of similar regard, CGI Lab, has suffered the same fate. All its games, including Platform 0 and WeedEx: Drug Express Delivery, have been taken off the PlayStation Store. There's been no acknowledgement or comment from the company on any of its channels just yet.

These follow ThiGames, which had all 1,200 of its games removed from the marketplace in January. Two years ago, the same fate befell Midnight Works. It appears Sony's curation arrives in fits and starts, but when it kicks in, the changes are swift.

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