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?
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.