Resurrection cancelled: Sony removes Jesus simulator from PlayStation Store right before Easter

Sony continues its large-scale cleanup of the PlayStation Store, targeting low-quality games released with little to no quality control. This time, the move landed with particularly ironic timing.

Among the removed titles was Jesus Simulator — a visual novel about the life of Jesus Christ, released on March 23, 2026. Its removal happened exactly on Catholic Easter. Despite its appearance, the game wasn’t entirely obscure — its trailer was even featured on IGN. Still, after two weeks on the market, it had only 16 reviews on Steam, with a “Mixed” rating.

But the story isn’t really about the game’s quality. The irony lies in the fact that Jesus Simulator positioned itself as an “interactive journey of faith,” recreating gospel miracles and historical locations — yet it didn’t survive Good Friday. Meanwhile, another similar project, Jesus: The Journey, released just last week, remains available on the PlayStation Store. The war on low-effort titles clearly isn’t over: for every game removed, another quickly takes its place.

This isn’t the first such wave. A few months ago, Sony removed around 1,200 titles from Cyprus-based publisher Nostra Games, which had flooded the store with questionable simulators — some of them reportedly generated with AI. Experts point out that the root of the problem is weak moderation at the publishing stage: as long as Sony continues to approve games almost automatically, developers will keep exploiting loopholes — and cashing in.

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