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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99Subscribe now Tell us what you think of GamesRadar+ Battlefield 6 Switch 2 stock Horror Special Recommended reading Sony sues Tencent over open-world survival game it calls a "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, which was apparently announced after PlayStation refused a collab offer Survival Games As Palworld update soars, IP expert says "weird" new moves from Nintendo in ongoing lawsuit read like a "desperate attempt to win by doing something odd" The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over" Open World Games Ghost of Yotei directors aren't worried about Assassin's Creed Shadows comparisons, they think it's "great" when they see more games like theirs: "We're big fans of feudal Japan" Monster Hunter Analyst says stumbles like Monster Hunter Wilds' PC fiasco are only getting uglier with intense competition: "A prominent streamer or YouTuber can single-handedly, by showing one screenshot, really impact what the perception of a game is" Survival Games Sticking it to Nintendo, Palworld modder rebuilds the glider mechanic that Pocketpair cut to appease Mario's lawyers: "Patch 0.5.5? What? That didn't happen!" Survival Games Palworld devs making "certain compromises" in the survival game amid Nintendo lawsuit doesn't mean Pocketpair is admitting to patent infringement, expert explains Survival Games 10 days after Sony sued over Tencent's allegedly "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, its Steam page has been scrubbed of robot mastodons and Aloy lookalikes Dustin Bailey 8 August 2025 I guess the lawsuit has already had some effect When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Tencent/Polaris Quest) Last week, Sony sued over Light of Motiram, a survival game which the PlayStation parent calls a "slavish clone" of the Horizon series. The results of that lawsuit remain to be seen, but for now it seems to have been enough to convince the devs to scrub Light of Motiram's Steam page clean of its most incriminating Horizon-like elements. Light of Motiram, in development at Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, once proudly emblazoned its Steam page with screenshots of robot mastodons, repeated descriptions of other "colossal machines," and banner art of a girl who could easily be described as "anime Aloy." (You can still see an archived version of the page.) There was even an animated gif of a human character doing battle with a giant mech atop a robot horse, which you could easily squint to mistake for a shot from a Horizon trailer. Much of that material has now been scrubbed from the Steam page, as noted by The Game Post. You can still draw some Horizon parallels with the futuristic tribal aesthetic, but now it looks a little bit more like a game that simply exists in a similar genre aesthetic rather than "we have Horizon at home." You may like Sony sues Tencent over open-world survival game it calls a "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, which was apparently announced after PlayStation refused a collab offer As Palworld update soars, IP expert says "weird" new moves from Nintendo in ongoing lawsuit read like a "desperate attempt to win by doing something odd" The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over" Of course, Light of Motiram has been billed from the start as a co-op survival game, which would make it fundamentally different from the single-player, open-world gameplay of the Horizon series. But its aesthetic similarities to Horizon were drawing criticism as far back as last year. I'm reminded of the early controversy over Genshin Impact, which offered some pretty obvious allusions to Breath of the Wild in its early marketing materials. Of course, MiHoYo's game turned out to very much have its own identity, and the same might be true of Light of Motiram – but then, I guess Genshin Impact was never brazen enough to earn a lawsuit from the publisher of its inspiration. Maybe someday we'll be laughing about this as Light of Motiram reigns among the best survival games on the market. Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. See more PC Gaming News Dustin Bailey Social Links Navigation Staff Writer Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. 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Sony sues Tencent over open-world survival game it calls a "slavish" Horizon Zero Dawn clone, which was apparently announced after PlayStation refused a collab offer As Palworld update soars, IP expert says "weird" new moves from Nintendo in ongoing lawsuit read like a "desperate attempt to win by doing something odd" The games industry might be built on borrowed ideas, but new ones have to come from somewhere – even if Fumito Ueda says "the era of game mechanics is over" Ghost of Yotei directors aren't worried about Assassin's Creed Shadows comparisons, they think it's "great" when they see more games like theirs: "We're big fans of feudal Japan" Analyst says stumbles like Monster Hunter Wilds' PC fiasco are only getting uglier with intense competition: "A prominent streamer or YouTuber can single-handedly, by showing one screenshot, really impact what the perception of a game is" Sticking it to Nintendo, Palworld modder rebuilds the glider mechanic that Pocketpair cut to appease Mario's lawyers: "Patch 0.5.5? 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