As reported by Polygon and TorrentFreak, Mob Entertainment, the studio behind popular Five Nights at Freddy's-alike Poppy Playtime, has filed a lawsuit against Google for failing to remove fraudulent Poppy Playtime apps from its Android Play Store.
At first blush, I assumed this had to do with those weird fake games whose ads you see all over YouTube and Twitter, but it's somehow even worse than that: The outfit in question, Daigo Game 2020, has products on the Play Store literally titled "Poppy Playtime Chapter 4" and "Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3." At the time of writing, these apps are still available for download.
Daigo Game 2020's previous works, including «Minecraft 2020» and a sampling of similarly unlicensed Skibidi Toilet games, have unsurprisingly been removed from the store.
The false Poppies have a staggering 1.1 million downloads between the two of them. The apps are free, a sort of «too good to be true» temptation likely targeting Poppy Playtime's younger and less savvy fans.
Like FNAF before it, Poppy Playtime strikes me as one of those little cousin/nephew phenomena, and Mob Entertainment boasts a mind-boggling 40 million players of its games across all platforms.