PS5 libraries scrambled after PlayStation service outage

Many PS5 owners report incorrect library entries and scrambled “Recently Played” lists after a day-long outage of PlayStation’s “Gaming and social” services earlier this week.

Sony took parts of the PlayStation Network offline to address a problem affecting gaming and social features. After the company restored parts of the service, numerous users reported that activity timestamps had reverted by roughly a month, removing more recent entries from their histories.

On the PlayStation subreddit, one user posted: “My Recently Played section shows that I last played Mixtape, which I finished more than a month ago. The last two games I played have been completely wiped out of the section.” The forum contains dozens of similar posts describing the same behavior.

Reports affect both disc and digital owners. Some players say titles they recently played no longer appear in the Recently Played area, and a subset of users report that games have disappeared from their library lists.

The impact is inconsistent across accounts. Some profiles show only older timestamps while titles remain visible, others show missing entries, and many users report no change to their libraries or play histories.

Players have posted screenshots showing the discrepancies and are checking purchase and play records to confirm what is missing. At present, affected users are awaiting an update from Sony about whether a follow-up fix will correct the altered timestamps and restore missing entries.

PlayStation’s gaming and social services have experienced intermittent disruptions in the past, and the company periodically takes services offline to apply fixes. The recent service restoration appears to have resolved the initial outage but introduced errors in some users’ account histories.