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That is DMCA and trademark violation bait.

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The original game was a disaster.

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My thoughts on this? What exactly?

Incest? I find it repulsive, I have trouble just thinking of it. Though if the involved parties are all adult and in their mind, they can do whatever they want. And possibly not let me know about it.

Companies forcing censorship and morals (which can be aligned with mine in this case, but not in other cases)? Very annoying and disturbing. And dangerous as well.

I'm open to hear from any dude into police and sexual crime fight why censoring this kind of stuff would be beneficial, it's completely possible that there are good reasons that can't see.

Yet the main take away in my case, is that next time the government pushes for digital payments over physical bills, I will have to take the side of the physical bills. I always thought it would be better overall if all could be traced and reconstructed. But if private organizations can decide how people spend or spend not their digital money, physical bills all the time. Until some EU initiative blocks this shit that is (obviously it won't be a fight we take on the incest hill).

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The main difference is that LEGO minifigures have rounded heads and a block attachment point on the scalp for hats/hair. Hands are squared here too, but that's pretty subtle.

I think it's perfectly fine as it is since the focus seems to be on custom block shapes and a very fluid physics engine.

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It always feels like the ones targeted by these things are those who don't have the resources to fight back.

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@wytrabvit I'm just saying that lego minifigures look kinda cute while all the others somehow don't.

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So does that feel like a good game or am I just really a sucker for interesting art and atmosphere? Either way, wishlisted.

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@Kimyrielle: The law isn't so much weird as bought and paid for. It's the kind of thing that happens when your lawmaking process is dominated by the lobbyists of small elites. The DMCA happened at a time when you were seeing the rise of things like ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which is a corporate-backed lobbying outfit that literally just writes legislation and gets US governments, typically starting at the state level, to pass their bills as is.

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Amazing. I wonder if this now really is the final final update ^^

I was about to say that in view of the 300 devs just laid off there... perhaps, but it turns out that's "just" 7% so who knows.

https://www.techinasia.com/news/sg-based-game-studio-virtuos-cuts-7-of-workforce

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<sigh>

Another game, another silly eula from entitled devs; they don't want people modding this game.

This genre is poisoned far too much for me to put up with this.

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The law is really kinda weird. If I understand the case right, some random person on the internet claiming "It's mine and my proof is because I said so!" is enough to take down a game whose developer can prove that they bought the assets in good faith. It would be really nice if at least the claimant had to produce some actual proof that the assets are actually theirs, and their first addressee of complaint had to be the asset store which allegedly sold the assets without license. Not a person who did absolutely nothing wrong.

The number of cases of games using 3rd party assets ending in legal disaster like that is mind-numbing. I think many developers don't realize what a legal minefield 3rd party assets are. From that perspective, it's kinda easy to understand why some/many small projects switched to using AI rather than 3rd party assets. AI isn't without risk either, but it's nowhere -that- bad.

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The graphics look incredible (apart from the characters/avatars, as pb notes above). Physics engine looks lovely too. There's a hint of Teardown in there, some Fall Guys, and yeah, obviously a Lego/Roblox vibe too.

Very impressive.

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person who's never really played civ sims here, HEAVY recommendation from me. the game is a banger

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Using assets downloaded from the internet in a commercial project is always a bad idea. It's too hard to trace the provenance.

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wow what a plagiarism of Miyazaki! Thankfully, he is not Nintendo XD

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@pb Are you referring to the design that LEGO bought from Kiddicraft (originally straight copied with permission) and turned into Automatic Binding Bricks? They're just blocks that fit together, and the blocky characters "fit" with the theme of the blocks themselves. Minecraft does the same, blocky characters for blocky building bricks.

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Doesn't the hit-detection just look really hard to track in this? Brotato had a little of that challenge too, but more because there was so much going on. In this, I can't even tell when the character is taking damage!!

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Did really someone ask for more or new vehicles in CP2077 O.o? *facepalm*

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As amoral as those games on the screenshot might be, the decision on whether they are allowed on Steam should only be made by the platform itself, local restrictions may come from governments or rating boards, like PEGI, ESRB or CERO. Payment processors should not be allowed to govern what people can buy with their own money. If anything, make it so that certain games can only be paid for via certain service.

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Thanks for sharing, I got Dusk + Amid Evil along with The Ascent and Hellbound :)

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Thanks @toor !
Liam we don't have time to finish Cyberpunk, it's years after release, we must accept it at this point.

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Playing it since forever, but... For me, the worst part of this game is to not have BAR (Beyond All Reason) formation tools, and the lack of proper collision between troops, bodies, etc... I HATE seeing my troops in melee all mixed together.

Can't believe that in 2025, the problem of an RTS is that it isn't more like BAR.

Good place to be in!

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Maybe I'm too hardcore lego fan, but these figures look ugly as... you get the point. I never played roblox, but from what I've seen, the figures there are even uglier. Is it really impossible to create a block character that doesn't look like absolute crap without infringing on lego's design?

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Got a lot of love for this game, after a very chilled and engaging early access gamepass run through. Got a steam copy of the game to go and see what’s changed.

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Yeah, I am at a loss here. Copyright is incomprehensible to me. You ask for permission, you get it, have a license and then get taken down anyway?

There are two problems here. First one is the DMCA, which is a stupid US law that puts the burden of proof solely on the user of a certain digital product. This opens it up for anybody to get something offline without having to proof anything themselves and stores like Steam have to do this. So this claim may still be false, but how the hell is a solo dev going to prove that?

The second problem is that unless there is an official registration of something or you actually made it yourself, it is hard to know who actually owns something. It's like that so called NFT "ownership" thing where the only actually prove that you own that number, but not the thing that it "points" to.

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Anyone wanna bet that both the modellers just happened to make almost exactly the same model because they just kinda ripped off existing cars?

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I recommend checking the comments on arsTECHNICA: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/steam-cracks-down-on-some-sex-games-to-appease-payment-processors/

Seems like the payment processors have been made liable for the content that gets bought so they are in CYA mode.

I mean, they have always done this shit but this time it seems like there is a kind of a reason.

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Yeah, I am at a loss here. Copyright is incomprehensible to me. You ask for permission, you get it, have a license and then get taken down anyway?

anyone can purchase something, reupload it claiming it was the original author to make a profit on thirdy party content.

If anything, try opengameart.org, where yyhe content have a licence that clearly states what you can and can't do. At least, that way, you can't get sued or DMCA'd.

that wont solve the issue as i said above, the probem is about figuring out who own the copyriht to an piece of media, any site need an contentID technology that, unless its perfect, wont catch all the cases of plagiarism.


i would say, even pirate sites need an contentID if they want to at least give proper credits to the original authors so those who want can support then.

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well, at least it was not a car company saying "you cant use our car", while i understand their point, gaming is a different media, its not like someone was making their cars and they use this excuse to kill game preservation so screw then.

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I find it funny how these same companies are ok with people paying for porn sites with these kinds of porn and are ok with Onlyfans but aren’t ok with steam games that do the same kinds of fetish content.

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