Nintendo may have gotten heated with Pocket Pair Inc. when a lot of people were saying that Palworld had blatantly ripped off Pokemon, but now a new game looks to be ripped off by Nintendo’s Chinese collaborator Tencent – Light of Motiram.
Fans just got a first look at Light of Motiram from Polaris Quest (a Tencent subsidiary), and a lot of people have noticed that the game looks suspiciously like Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn. According to Video Games Chronicle, the story of Motiram is also suspiciously like Horizon in that human civilization is dead, and robotic animals (called ‘mechanimals’) are roaming the land.
No doubt, the specifics of the story of Motiram could be different from Horizon, but so many early reactions online have already been pointing out how the game looks to have ripped off Guerilla—from the design of the mechanimals to the game’s overall visual language of hostile animals being red and the friendly ones glowing blue; even the lighting in the game is the same.
Sony’s #Horizon series vs Tencent’s new game ‘Light of Motiram’
No shame 😂 pic.twitter.com/dQRq3WCCy7
— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) November 28, 2024
To be fair though, Motiram does have some orginal elements that weren’t present in Horizon. There’s co-op multiplayer that will be available in the game, and players also have the ability to craft shelters. The variety of weapons also makes it feel like this is not just a straight Horizon clone, but maybe a meshing of the game with Monster Hunter.
For now, fans are urging Guerilla to take legal action, but in the meantime, it looks like everyone is just waiting to see what happens.
No release date has been set for Light of Motiram.
