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As a common practice, the trend of stealing the imagery or reputation of a successful game to create mobile knockoffs has been around for a long time. Ever since Nguyen Ha Dong's unexpected success with Flappy Bird, there have been thousands of imitative games flooding the Apple Store and Google Play with various expressions. Baldur's Gate 3 is no exception to this phenomenon.
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On his Twitter post, Mr. Michael Douse - the publishing director of Baldur's Gate 3 - hinted at a knockoff game of their product. He simply posted a picture of the imitative game alongside an image of the famous female judge on a TV show, expressing disappointment and disapproval with a finger-wagging gesture.
The game in question is called Balder War: Epic Immortal RPG. The representative image of the blatantly copied game features artwork of characters from Baldur's Gate 3. More ironically, the imitator has 'prettified' the images into a Korean-style 'pretty boy' look while retaining the background lighting effects.
Naturally, after the director's tweet went viral, the knockoff game was removed from the Apple Store. It's unclear whether it was detected by the Store itself or reported by Larian, but the link to the knockoff game now only shows a loading screen with no endpoint.
The genuine (above) and the knockoff (below).Typically, in cases like this where knockoffs are exposed, people tend to attribute it to the “Chinese sorcerers” because they have talented individuals who can redraw images and create a complete game in a very short time. That level of skill is matched by few other studios. Therefore, the suspicion among the Baldur's Gate 3 fan community that this knockoff game is of Chinese origin is entirely justified.
