Sony’s recent decision to stop producing physical PlayStation games in the near future has naturally led to a renewed focus and appreciation for physical games that can be played just by sticking a cartridge or disc in a console. But an increasing number of those “physical” games these days still require additional downloads from a centralized server to function as intended. That ratio balloons to 34 percent for tested PS5 games and 50 percent for those on the Xbox Series X. “There is no reason physical games would ever die unless someone like Sony deliberately kills them.” What’s missingDoesItPlay got its start in 2019 as a passion project Twitter account maintained by Jon Doyle—who went on to found boutique physical game publisher Lost in Cult—and quickly developed into a small community of devoted physical game testers.