The game that has been accused of plagiarizing Horizon Zero Dawn… But it is more similar to Palworld

When Palworld appeared at the beginning of the year, many of us wondered how something like this could have happened. A game that clearly took Pokémon designs and gave them a machine gun? It resembled the audacity of Filipino films from the 70s and 80s, which effortlessly combined characters with intellectual property and pitted them against each other. But, somehow, these practically literal plagiarisms are becoming increasingly common within the video game industry. If Palworld got away with it, why wouldn’t Light of Motiram?

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Polaris Quest, the studio behind Light of Motiram, hasn’t exactly been subtle. The plot, set in a natural world dominated by gigantic machines (ahem), is notably similar to that of Horizon Zero Dawn, but it doesn’t stop there: from what we can see in its first images, they have adapted the same tones and have created a very similar world. We can think positively and believe it was a coincidence, but in 2024, coincidences rarely exist.

Most people are surprised by the colossal lack of shame from the studio, which clearly plays coy, but whose gameplay is very different from Aloy’s adventures. In this case, it’s about building a base where you can train up to a hundred “mechanimals” (that’s what the creatures are called), which you can modify to fight each other, alone or with others: the world can be explored cooperatively, with up to ten players. There you go.

In other words, it will be like Palworld but in the world of Horizon Zero Dawn. At this point, one wonders if there have really been humans behind the game or if we are facing one of those titles where AI has taken the lead (but they still don’t dare to say it due to the consequences it may have). For now, there is no release date for Light of Motiram (we only know, in fact, that it will be released on Steam and the Epic Games Store), but it has become, perhaps to its regret, the new laughingstock of the industry. Rightly so.

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