Bad news for fans of The Jumping Burger: the PlayStation Store has excised the game, along with over 1,000 similar titles published by the same developer, in what appears to be an effort to clear the storefront of shovelware.
German publisher ThiGames had its entire catalog of at least 1,196 games silently delisted. The company, as pointed out by streamer and “trophy hunter” RobThanatos on X, published the fourth-highest number of titles on the PlayStation Store. ThiGames has yet to publicly acknowledge the removals.
One quick look at any of these games and it’s easy to conclude that they’re nothing more than easy ways to farm trophies. “Gameplay” of The Jumping Burger consists of pressing or holding the cross button to make a burger jump up and down, earning a Platinum trophy for players in less than five minutes. A totally separate game called The Jumping Burger: Turbo shortened this process down to less than a minute and a half.
