Over the past few days, have you taken a look at your profile on PlayStation 5 and noticed a game listed you haven't actually played when the console says so? You're not the only one in that case. Reports are building up across the web of the PS5 profile page swapping out recently launched titles with something completely random — it's affecting a number of editors here at Push Square and community members over on our forum. The PS5 or PlayStation 4 game supposed to be there is correct when you button through, but on the surface, it looks like you've played a load of random titles from years back.
Take the image above for example — the Rez Infinite slot you see there is actually Gone Home: Console Edition. This happens more and more as you go down the list of PS5 and PS4 games we haven't booted up in years replacing recently played titles. Forum user ShaiHulud reckons it could have something to do with the recent Resident Evil Village Maiden demo, which those affected here at Push Square have indeed downloaded and played. We can't say for sure this is what's causing the malfunction, but it's a possibility. And while this probably isn't the biggest issue Sony is having to deal with right now, you know, we would like to look back on your PlayStation gaming history with accuracy.
Are you also encountering this problem? Let us know in the comments below.
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Yep, I've had this as well. Did a double-take — I thought someone had hacked my account!
I don't really bother with this feature, first time I checked I had completed games stuck at 1 hour and others I barely touched at 100 hours. It's just a mess.
Last one was Bugsnax, it's stuck at 2 hours even if I completed it.
I experienced this on ps ios app maybe 1-2 weeks before (in the "Play" tab), the play section filled with random games but it refreshed and change to my games quickly. I didn't check it on my ps5 ui.
I had that on my account and on one of my kids.
Although this is a minor issue, there are so many problems and missing features from the PS5 UI that make it feel rushed and unfinished. Compared to the PS4 UI (even at the launch), the PS5 dashboard feels anti-social and barely functional with no What's New feed, no Friends List or Message tab (everything is hidden inside 'Game Base', whatever that means), missing Trophy percentage progress...
@LiamCroft please could you also mention something about the PS5 store missing off games when filtering by New Releases? The PS5 Store is pretty bad as we all know, with no Demos, DLC or (until recently) Deals sections. This issue of missing games has been happening since launch and is very frustrating to have to always check the PS4 store (or even PSPrices) to see what games are released.
I posted this in the 'The Pedestrian' review-
"Is this out for PS5? It doesn't show up on the PS5 store if you filter all PS5 games by 'New-Old' or 'Recently Released' (as with many new releases). I can manually search and find the PS4 version, but the PS5 version still says 'Coming Soon'.
The PS5 store is an utter mess with games not showing up in the PS5 or PS4 lists at random! Gods Will Fall is another new release that doesn't show up, but it does on the PS4 store. I shouldn't have to manually search for games I know are released as how would I find any unknown releases? There is no Blog to inform us anymore!"
I noticed this last night, the image and name were from games I haven't played in years, but when I clicked them, they showed me trophies from a different game, one I had actually played recently.
I have played that Resident Evil Demo too. So could be true.
No, however ive noticed that some games are listed twice with differing play times.
I noticed this for one of my recently played games as well the other day. And yes, I also played the RE demo.
@solocapers I noticed this, but it turned out it was showing things like Final Fantasy VII Remake twice, it was counting digital items as a game, like the soundtrack etc. Same with art books and comics for things like Iron Man, Detroit: Become Human, God of War and the Wipeout Omega Collection. I think I have about 4 entires for Iron Man VR in my list. Haha.
This isn’t in isolation to the village demo -I haven’t played it - I think it has more to do with legacy ps users I still play the wheels out of ps3 and feel it has more to do with issues of them maintaining through the eras - the issues o noticed resolve themselves if you click on the trophy that’s incorrect
I've had an issue in the past where a game will show twice - with differing stats for each...
It's funny you should mention this today - last night I browsed through this list to have a look at the trophies for Shenmue...it initially loaded the trophy list for Shenmue 2 until I went back a step and tried again.
That happens to me xD It lists game i never had
I have this too (says Killzone Shadow Fall instead of Atelier Ryza 2 lmao) but I havent downloaded the Maiden Demo so its caused by something else
Yes I noticed this the other day.I also thought someone had hacked my account like they did in the Xbox 360 years ago and bought the digital copy of Fifa using my money.
Also noticed games appearing twice both with different play times.It's a right mess to be honest.What with the store being totally inferior to the Ps4 as well..
Haven’t noticed it on my PS5, but has been happening on my iOS app for several days now. Very annoying.
I have this issue and haven't played the new RE8 demo. The weirdest thing for me is that my Hotline Miami 2 trophies now come up as Mubi the movie streaming app which isn't even a game and doesn't have any trophies at all!
Yes, it's also on the app. I opened the app and immediately it shows your last played game. It was a game I hadn't played before, but was in my collection so I also thought I was hacked haha. I soon found it was a bug.
Everytime I refresh it shows something else even in my game overview and also games I don't own.
this has been happening for weeks. something at the back end must have gone wrong, though it's not the only buggy issue with the games list.
every time i turn on the PS5 i seem to get different random games on my list, sometimes with platinum trophies. i've never played overwatch, but it showed the platinum trophy for me - if i click on it, it shows the list for a completely different game. or sometimes it can't seem to work it out, and just shows the entire trophies game list. if i compare games with a friend, it sometimes shows a mutual game that neither of us have played. collections with multiple games, such as the drake collection, does not show correctly - so i can only see uncharted 1, but not 2 or 3 (2 nor 3 show up in the trophy lists either). same for borderlands collection. it often shows the same game multiple times — occassionally this might be an alpha, a beta, and the full game (like destiny) but the PS4 distinguishes these, the PS5 does not - they all look and are named exactly the same.
@katamariUK Everyone is different I guess.
While I certainly agree that there are missing features in the PS5 UI, personally I'm glad they got rid of a lot of the dead wood features. e.g. What's next, friend feed, etc.
This is of course subjective but I never wanted a social network within PlayStation and particularly didn't need them to be front and centre - the first thing you see - when you logon, I don't care if a friend popped a trophy or played a game.
Now you see the last game you played, or are straight back into it, either is better imho.
On the ps store app it says my most recent game is some random jrpg I have never heard of instead of hitman 3, go home sony you're drunk.
@themightyant Very true and I can see why some prefer it without. But I don't understand then why there isn't the option to have these things on or off per each user's preference.
Personally, I used to like seeing what trophies a Friend had just earned and I may go for (and to see how they were progressing in a game so I could avoid talking spoilers with them). And I used to like sharing/seeing screenshots and videos in the feed. There is now little incentive to capture anything as you can only share externally.
Sounds like sony need to hire a team or people who actually know what they are doing to monitor and fix issues like this and the ps store etc.
Hope all these things get ironed out before I get a ps5. It's kind of a bummer to constantly hear about things like this when leading up to its release it just seemed like it was going to be this incredibly well thought out super system when in reality it seems to be a bit of a mess
Odd seeing my name pop up in an article here! I initially couldn't find anyone else with the same issues, but since quite a few other people seem to be experiencing it as well I'm a little relieved as that will undoubtedly mean it will get patched in the future.
@katamariUK 100% agree choice is better.
But I also don't see these as launch features when so many seemingly more important, and far simpler, features are missing.
Sony will also have the metrics of how much engagement there was with features like this, and from what I heard previously the "What's new" section never quite gained the traction they wanted, even if there were many like you who enjoyed it.
Ah, it has been too long since Sony broke something on the PSN for the last time, glad to see they are back at work
@Wazeddie22 @Shaun_p I can't say for certain but when I noticed some games appearing twice on my games list I realised they were all games I had played a demo or beta for and I think that is what the seperate entry was for. Don't know if that would explain it for your double entries too?
@BearsEatBeets Yep,I had demos I played appearing twice but also games like Ghost Of Tshushima appeared once with my correct hours of 77 hours and further down the same game appearing with about 2 hours played.
Then I also had a game appear Minit?or something I've never played anyway but I click on it and it changed to Gravity Rush 2 which I am playing.Bizarre.
The whole “game” section seems offline for me now. It won’t load anything and the four cards in the profile section just has a blank space where the game card is.
Noticed this was happening for me a couple of days ago as well. Practically every other game seemed incorrectly labeled for a while there!
Glad it's not just me. This just happened randomly and now my ps5 thinks I've played Senran Kagura Peach Beach splash in the games part of my profile instead of The Messenger. (in reality I last played the earlier title in 2018)
Happening to me too. No idea why. Can confirm it's not related to the REVIII demo, as I have not downloaded/played it.
Same problem I hope they fix it soon, it is very annoying.
@get2sammyb
Same, I play on PS4 tho, but the PS App on my phone is completely nuts...You get the correct game when you click through to the trophy list tho.
Hello PushSquare.
I've created an account just to come comment here about this issue, and one another very similar. I don't know where to report this sort of things, so I'll just leave it here in hopes Sony takes notice somehow.
So first of all yes, I also have this issue. Though after coming to the menu and back to the list the issue becomes solved for some games while others are now showing wrong. Going to the console's main menu and back solves/unsolves the issue as you repeat it. So it's some kind of bug on the loading process.
But more importantly than that, is my second issue. So, I have many, really many games, in my library. And I'm not even talking about installed, I mean games I have adquired. But for some reason, the PS5 decides to mix the IMAGES and names of some games while in fact they are another games. Here's an example:
On my Library I have it saying Evil Within 2 for the PS5. We all know there's no Evil Within 2 for the PS5. But when I start downloading, it downloads The Observer: System Redux, which should've been the right game/image/info to appear. This doesn't happen just with this game, it is now happening with every other games, not only PS5 but PS4 games aswell, specially demos, my library is now showing wrong games.
I can already forward though, that the problem MOST LIKELY relies on a bug within the save file system, as I've noticed that the saves both on the console and PS Plus Cloud have wrong game images.
Please, Sony has to take a notice of this. You can't imagine how it is to have an entire library of PS games, new and old, all mixed up with one another.
Edit: I just did a video explaining my 2nd issue https://youtu.be/rMvi2SKM7X8
Had my PS5 for a few days now. Completed Astro and now on Spider-Man MM. Looking through the UI this morning and noticed the Recently Played list. I have similar issues, with many games on my list that I've never played and several games duplicated with different play times. As for the ones I've never played, there seems to be a slight pattern as around 80% of them are downloaded from PS Now but I've never played them. I downloaded them so my partner could play them on her account, similar to sharing games on PS Plus. All of the games on the list that I've not played all have - signs under the Progress and Earned. Like others have said, not a major issue but I would certainly like a truer reflection of my years of gaming. Hopefully Sony will fix it or allow the list to be edited.
Anybody else have a problem where a friends activity isnt updating correctly either? Whenever my buddy is online he'll switch the game thats he's playing but PS wont refresh and show me the correct game that he;s playing. ex we'll be playin COD and switch over to Madded but it will show him still playing COD. Also he just signed off like an hour ago and PS was still showing him online playing until i actually put my system to sleep and turned it back on and it refreshed and showed him offline.... i checked for an update cuz i know sometime tech justs acts glitchy when theres an update but i'm up to date. and this has been going on, atleast for me, for a few months.
@LizardKing570 i have the same problem since i got my ps5 and its really anoying. Ive discovored that if you turn your wifi off and on fix it but only temporarily or if you join a party. Did you find a way to fix it ?
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