Hmm, a new mobile game from The Witcher?that’s all cool geralt work (opens in new tab) What I found on Reddit this morning may indicate that.
The logo is named Rise of the Kings and seems to be available in every app store. Until I scrolled down, I found myself looking at yet another crappy mobile game that blatantly stole someone else’s artwork.
The artwork in question uses armor from the Netflix series while mimicking the real-life art from The Witcher 3, clearly taking creative liberties with its non-Geralt design. ‘s face is even meant to imitate the impeccable Henry Cavill, with a slight hint that PC gamers can’t follow. (opens in new tab).
This Riverboat Gerald ad appears to be promoting an update to Rise of the Kings that’s been out for months, but only recently caught the eye of r/Gaming.the commentator is smile (opens in new tab) Some quality ginger at the expense of advertising. “Everyone’s favorite card game, Qwert too!” wrote drawtheblueduck. “His trusty horse and coach,” he added 8bit4brains.
“I think the Witcher ripped this game off,” said Crazescape.
At this point, mobile rip-offs are so common that it seems like a better use of your time to simply laugh off the blankness of the internet than to complain about it. If you can forgive me for bothering you with an already well-known problem, teeth It’s ridiculous that these rip-offs continue to make money in the major app stores.
Given how much a platform like the Apple App Store takes pride in reviewing apps, theft is depressingly common. Update from March! Nor is Rise of the Kings a random sidebar ad game. He has been downloaded over 10 million times in the Google Play Store alone. Here’s a stat from the store page of the game that’s currently autoplaying its fake Geralt trailer.
While it’s nice to see long and costly time-outs from storefronts when these shady games do the theft, Apple and Google will own up to 30% of everything Rise of the Kings makes. Not a particularly strong game considering it’s automatically in your pocket. incentive.
Perhaps almost Geralt here is something that CD Projekt doesn’t feel worth pursuing, or that it’s not even close enough to outright copyright infringement. If so, is it weird that this kind of shady mobile game doesn’t take off on Steam in the same way? That’s right), and games that do don’t seem to attract 10 million players in six years. (opens in new tab).
We have reached out to CDPR for comment and will update with any response.
