A widely used PS5 feature has been down for the last two weeks on both the console and the PS App, and Sony has yet to acknowledge the issue. The company temporarily took down PlayStation’s “Recently Played” section to fix a PS Store glitch earlier this month, and although the feature returned shortly afterwards, it’s been busted ever since.
PS5 ‘Recently Played’ feature went down following a game library bug on June 15
As we previously explained, sometime around June 15, players suddenly started seeing raunchy games in their libraries and the Recently Played section that they hadn’t purchased. Sony took the feature down to fix the problem, but the company seems to have broken something else.
It appears that PSN’s clock has been set back by a month or so, and all the games we’ve played since then have either disappeared or don’t register in Recently Played. From what I’ve gathered, the problem affects both disc-based and digital games, but most of the complaints are coming from folks who’re playing games off of discs.
I, like many others, use the Recently Played feature — especially on the PS App — to check game campaign and trophy progress. While there are other ways to check both, going through the Recently Played section is quick and convenient.
Due to this issue, players can no longer check their campaign completion percentage for the games they’re playing via the PS App. On the PS5, the Recently Played widget in the Welcome Hub has been rendered useless, and players now have to hover over a game tile for an overview of their progress.
I’ve seen arguments that this isn’t a dealbreaker, but all the complaints lodged on gaming forums over the past two weeks suggest that a considerable number of players (myself included) use the Recently Played section frequently. Over the last day alone, at least a dozen threads have popped up on the PlayStation subreddit, inquiring about the issue.
It’s certainly a bit annoying to have it broken for this long.
Reaching out to Sony has been of no use, as the company rarely addresses such matters. There’s no ETA for a fix, then, so we’ll have to wait.
