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UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. (lemmy.world)
submitted 12 hours ago by Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your overwhelming support here for my last post: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do?

Quick summary of the situation: I've been working on my game called The Milgram Experiment for a while now and last week I found out a game with the exact same title was recently added to Steam. I wasn't sure what to do and never considered such a scenario because I always thought that Valve would just prevent you from using a name of a game that already exists. I got a lot of comments with people recommending me to contact Steam, to trademark the name worldwide or to even to try and contact the other dev.

Resolution: The other game has now officially changed its name to The Obedience Experiment.

How: The other dev actually saw my posts across social media and reached out to me and explained that it was a coincidence and he is very open to changing the name (since my game had the title for 2 years). Our talk was genuine and I felt there was no malice on his part. So it's all good now!

Feel free to wishlist both games if you like what you see:

The Milgram Experiment on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719670/The_Milgram_Experiment

The Obedience Experiment on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4777470/The_Obedience_Experiment/

Thanks for helping out a little indie dev and please tell me what do you think of both games? Which title is more catchy? Any feedback is more than welcome :)

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[–] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Making a whole other game to promote mine seems way to complicated instead of actually marketing it. I have the DM's from the other dev I can show them to you if you want.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't mean you didn't organize this with a developer, which is free marketing for him too. At this point, there is nothing that you could do or provide to convince me. I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but after the previous games marketing style as described, I do not trust you.

[–] Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I mean wouldn't believe strangers on the internet so fair point.

I don't think there is anything wrong with using some Imgur guerilla marketing to get some eyes on my game. I provide entertainment and the last post they can skip if they don't care. But you can check my game on SteamDB, they extract Steam data. My game's page was created in 2023 and this person's page was created in May 2026. I found this on Steam and decide to make a post about it in hopes it would make some noise and we can resolve this so I don't have be involved in legal battles and whatnot. The guy then contacted me, we talked and he agreed to change the name. That's the order of events, but it's okay if you don't believe it : ) All the best!