Xbox may have delisted that terrible God of War ripoff, but its creator still has blatant copycats of several high-profile games listed on the Xbox store.
It turns out Dolaka LTD has quietly released a whole stable of doppelgangers in the past six weeks, and I've been poking through them like a vulture neck-deep in a buffalo carcass. This operation is approaching the realm of a counterfeit ring; just look at Classic Platformer Mariones (opens in new tab), which could hardly be more Mario-like if it tried. If the mushrooms, spiky turtles, and gold question blocks weren't obvious enough, its official description gives the whole act away:
"Are you ready for the 2d classic platform game? Try to save the princess with Mariones. Skip many chapters. Kill the enemies. Collect items and gold. Collect and earn stars. It is a very enjoyable classic game."
Gold, stars, princesses, Mariones – it's all there and just $3.99, which is a recurring price point for Dolaka. And for the record, I think I would like to "skip many chapters," thank you for the option.
Then there's Hi Neighbor Hello There (opens in new tab), a near one-for-one rip of Dynamic Pixels' stealth horror game Hello Neighbor. I'm pretty sure some of the assets used in the store images for this one are genuinely just Hello Neighbor screenshots with worse menus overlaid on top.
It doesn't end there, either. Zombie V Rising After Deaths (opens in new tab) uses sloppily edited art for Steam survival hit V Rising to promote a completely unrelated and utterly hideous driving game. Shooter Garenattacks (opens in new tab) seems to have combined Superhot's glassy enemies with DMC: Devil May Cry's neo Dante while lifting parts of its name from mobile battle royale Garena Free
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