A new game from Tencent has been accused of “ripping off” Sony’s Horizon video game series.
Light of Motiram, from Shanghai-based Tencent subsidiary Polaris Quest, is described as an open-world multiplayer survival game “where nature meets machine.”
Those are the sort of generic gameplay descriptions you’d find on any Steam page, but it’s how Light of Motiram looks that’s set tongues wagging online. From teaser videos and screenshots, below, we can see a remarkable likeness to Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, complete with robot beasts and a female character who weilds a bow and arrow, all in what looks like a familiar post-apocalyptic setting and art style.
“Rebuild a new civilization and battle, befriend and...