I have been working for over 2 years on my game and 4 months ago I finally released my demo. Yesterday, while searching on Steam I found a game with EXACTLY the same title and very similar premise. The page was created in May or June 2026 and they aim to release in August 2026. Here are some of descriptions I use on my Steam page:

  • A first-person psychological thriller with a heavy atmosphere and elements of liminal horror.

  • Uncover the stories of your subjects by studying their personal items and darkest secrets before making life-or-death choices.

  • Will you sacrifice your own beliefs to obey HIS authority?

For comparison here is how they describe their game:

“Will you obey orders, or resist? In this first-person psychological horror game, you sit across from subjects and must investigate evidence to determine who is telling the truth, and decide their fate.”

My game is planned to release in October or whenever it’s completely playtested and polished. I’m not sure what I can do as this has never happened before, what do you think is my best course of action here?

For reference my game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719670/The_Milgram_Experiment

And the copy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4777470/The_Milgram_Experiment/

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling. Just going through a few shooters and search hunger games or battle royal brings up game modes from way before pubg for quite a few games, arma, half life, runescape. Hell theres even a movie with the same concept.

      Then you look at pubg and you see how many battle royal games released in the same few months and you think they copied pubg? Thats impossible. You cannot copy a game in a few months. Its more likely they were all looking at h1z1 which was very popular and topping twitch with all the major streamers playing it. Then most of the following games put some kind of spin on the formula and made it something completely different.

      • RabbitBBQ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling.

        These were all created after the original PUBG, which was an Arma mod created similar to DayZ. This existed as what we know of battle royale before any other clone, and it was also created by PlayerUnknown.

        • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
          1·
          13 minutes ago

          Not true Minecraft was earlier by a few years and blew up a few years before the arma mod. But reading more of the lore it does seem like Brendan greene was involved in battle realistic style royals since very early days and was heavily involved I’m all the major genre hits. But that still doesnt make fortnite a copy.

          Reading through the lore player Brendan Greene worked on h1z1 but ultimately the company that decided to make pubg say that they saw how popular h1z1 was and decided to reach out to Brendan Greene to work on the game that became pubg.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      I’m curious how they’d respond to this… as far as I know, there were a handful of mods for other games that kinda did the concept but no actual games, certainly not the way any games do BR after PUBG’s release. H1Z1? But not really, as PUBG’s creator did a lot of that…

      the closest things would probably be last-man-standing shooters but those aren’t BR games.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        13 hours ago

        H1Z1 is probably the technical first but I seem to recall that BR mode didn’t take off because the game had too much jank to be fun.