Ternox Games, a Ukrainian solo studio, says Sony unilaterally terminated its PlayStation developer and publisher agreement. The immediate damage is the cancelled PS5 release of Stonks-9800, a stock-market sim that has been in Steam Early Access since 2023. The longer damage is the catalog: all 13 of the studio's previously released PlayStation titles are being removed from the Store.
The studio says Sony gave no explanation and has not answered follow-up emails. Whether this is a shovelware-cleanup false positive, a policy breach Sony will not discuss, or something else is unknown from the outside. What is known is the outcome: the games are leaving, and the people who had not bought them yet lose the chance.
What players lose
If you already own a Ternox title on PlayStation, a Store delist usually does not revoke a purchase you already made. You can typically keep playing and re-download. That is the standard Store rule. It is also the same "for now" language Sony uses when it closes old storefronts. Do not assume a delisted game will be restorable forever.
If you do not own those 13 games, the window is short. Once the listings vanish, there is no PlayStation storefront left to buy them from. Stonks-9800's console future, according to the studio, is now Xbox and Switch.
This is the digital-only argument in one week. A disc in a drawer still works after a publisher fight. A Store tile does not.
Cleanup policies have blunt edges
Sony has spent recent years tightening what can appear on the PlayStation Store — low-effort asset flips, misleading listing art, and bulk "shovelware" that drowns out real indies. That cleanup is popular with a lot of players. The Ternox case is why developers argue the policy needs a human review step that actually talks back.
A store that can disappear a 13-game catalog without a public reason is a store where "available on PlayStation" is a rental of shelf space, not a listing you can count on. That is true for a tiny Ukrainian studio today. It is the same mechanism that will matter more after January 2028, when new PlayStation games have no physical backup.
Delists and your playtime log
Removing a game from the Store is not the same as erasing it from PSN activity data. If you played a Ternox title, the hours and last-played date on your profile should still be there — the same way delisted games still show up in a PS Playtime lookup. The Games tab is a record of what Sony's servers think you launched, not a live catalog of what is currently for sale.
What you cannot do after a delist is rebuild that record. You cannot buy the game again on PlayStation, and a missing session will not be reconstructed from a store page that no longer exists. If the title matters to you, launch it while it still installs, and keep a local copy.
Related: why a disc-less PS6 makes delists more painful and games missing from tracking.