TL;DR: Overdrive, the unofficial PS5 store that went viral over the weekend for offering pirated copies of PlayStation games, has reportedly been shut down by its developer after receiving a legal notice from Sony (but he couldn’t have expected anything else). While online, it built a catalog of more than 1,600 free PS4 and PS5 games for jailbroken PS5 consoles, pulling AAA and indie titles directly from third-party file hosting platforms.
The Overdrive “project” was published on GitHub on October 9th, but only took off after Edigax, a well-known PS5 modder and jailbreak tutorial creator, posted about it on social media two days later. The post garnered nearly 10 million views and more than 600 comments, garnering Overdrive a lot of attention.
— Edigax (@AmithEdigax) October 11, 2026
A few days later, Sony’s legal department reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Overdrive developer, forcing it to shut down the company without warning. Neither the developer nor Sony have publicly confirmed the legal notice, but the original GitHub project appears to have been permanently removed.
A few hours after Overdrive was shut down, several forks and cloned repositories appeared online, restoring multiple versions of the store under new hosts. At least two GitHub repositories have appeared in less than a day, with at least one already expanding to more than 1,800 titles.
– Oliver Darko (@oliver_drk) October 13, 2026
Like the original, the forks do not host pirated versions, but rather use the same client-side code to map external server databases. Its maintainers are also reportedly integrating Overdrive’s design into existing homebrew projects such as Omega Dashboard PS5 and PS5 Suite, which integrate custom game stores with file managers and hardware tools.
Many of those who embraced Overdrive and have since moved on to the forks appear to be critical of Sony’s plan to stop releasing new PS5 games on physical media starting in 2028, saying the company is getting exactly what it deserves.
Overdrive’s popularity can be attributed to several factors, including a sleek, familiar interface that mimics the official PlayStation Store layout down to the smallest detail. However, the actual experience appears to have been mixed. Early adopters discovered that many of the links retrieved from file hosts were either broken or offered terrible download speeds.
Reportedly built with Claude, Overdrive runs on jailbroken consoles with Relapse, an exploit chain that combines a WebKit browser bug with a kernel flaw, allowing homebrew execution on PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles with firmware 7.00 to 13.60. Sony has already closed the security gap in firmware 14.00.
