After the enormous success of Palworld, Tencent is launching a new similar game that comes dangerously close to plagiarizing licenses like Horizon and Monster Hunter.
While Palworld was recently sued by Nintendo for its enormous similarities to Pokémon, Tencent Games, more specifically its subsidiary Polaris Quest, is playing a pretty dangerous game and announcing a new title coming soon to PC. It presents itself as an open-world survival game with many similarities that are a little too obvious with Guerrilla Games' Horizon and Capcom's Monster Hunter.
A new Palworld store in the Horizon?
Looking at the artwork for this article, you'd think it was a new Horizon game since it looks so strangely similar. We see a magnificent panorama in which nature has reclaimed its rights, huge machines with animal shapes and a young woman with red hair in a tribal costume, armed with a bow. But no, any similarity is actually coincidental (or not…). It is actually Light of Motiram, a new game announced by Polaris Quest, a subsidiary of the Chinese giant Tencent.
This title is intended to be a survival game with crafting mechanics, in a huge open world brought back to the wild and dominated by machines with various bestial appearances. Here too, any reference to Horizon is completely involuntary, as you will have understood. When it comes to gameplay, we find “inspiration” more in Monster Hunter. Thanks to various fairly massive weapons with unique striking power, we will have to hunt these machines to recover their components to improve our equipment and build our bases.
As a reminder, a more or less similar multiplayer gaming service, this time actually in the Horizon universe, is currently in development at Guerrilla Games. However, Tencent and Polaris are pulling the rug out from under them with the official presentation of Light of Motiram. But given the allusion to this flagship intellectual property from PlayStation, it wouldn't be surprising if the Japanese giant attacked the Chinese game for plagiarism or some other violation of its copyright or trademark. To be continued. Light of Horizon… Motiram does not have a release date for now, but will initially appear on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
