My game was cloned with AI... what do I do?

🅰️ Buy Word Play on Steam! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3586660/Word_Play/ 🅱️ Turns out: no one is immune to AI-generated clone games. === Sources === [1] How sloppy is the October 2026 Steam Next Fest – How To Market A Gamehttps://howtomarketagame.com/2026/10/21/how-sloppy-is-the-october-2026-steam-next-fest/ [2] Who ‘won’ October 2026’s Steam Next Fest?https://newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/who-won-october-2026s-steam-next [3] The Proliferation Of Copycats On Steam Makes Discovering Original Games Like Finding A Needle In A Haystackhttps://kotaku.com/the-proliferation-of-copycats-on-steam-makes-discovering-original-games-like-finding-a-needle-in-a-haystack-2000734794 [4] Papers, Please Dev Lucas Pope Isn’t Talking About New Game Due to AI Concernshttps://checkpointgaming.net/news/2026/04/papers-please-dev-lucas-pope-isnt-talking-about-new-game-due-to-ai-concerns/ [5] Balatro was largely inspired by slot machine roguelike Luck Be a Landlordhttp://www.shacknews.com/article/139116/balatro-inspiration-luck-be-a-landlord-reddit-ama [6] Game Developer Delays Patch Because He Can't Get His Prescription Medicinehttps://www.vice.com/en/article/game-developer-delays-patch-because-he-cant-get-his-prescription-medicine/ [7] How Slay the Spire Defined a New Genrehttps://medium.com/super-jump/how-slay-the-spire-defined-a-new-genre-7f6d2ec46087 [8] Skyrim SE AE - Modern Weapons Polished V26https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/59437 [9] Why we’re trying paid Skyrim mods on Steamhttps://archive.is/89VzL [10] Call of Duty Modders Add Skateboarding and Minecraft to Modern Warfare 2https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-of-duty-modders-add-skateboarding-and-minecraft-to-modern-warfare-2/ [11] Tobyn Jacobs posthttps://x.com/TobynJacobs/status/2104884843297599594 [12] How to Reverse Engineer a Unity Gamehttps://www.kodeco.com/36285673-how-to-reverse-engineer-a-unity-game [13] The Rip-offs & Making Our Original Gamehttps://asherv.com/threes/threemails/ [14] The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracyhttps://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/82486/ai-energy-environment-democracy/ [15] Artificial intelligence: Impact on human relationships and societyhttps://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/artificial-intelligence-impact-on-human-relationships-and-society/ [16] AI-driven disinformation running rampant on social media before US midterms, experts warnhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/ai-disinformation-social-media-midterm-elections [17] Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Fraud and Scamshttps://www.pwc.co.uk/forensic-services/assets/impact-of-ai-on-fraud-and-scams.pdf [18] Goldman says AI layoffs are starting to leave a ‘long-lasting’ scar, just like the last 40 years of historyhttps://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/goldman-says-ai-layoffs-starting-130936875.html [19] Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings revealhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/ [20] Developers Fear AI Slop and Clones — Valve Answers Directlyhttps://www.invenglobal.com/articles/27761/developers-fear-ai-slop-and-clones-valve-answers-directly [21] PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshophttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/artcraft-free-photoshop-ai-clone [22] Anthropic tells Claude to stop remaking video gameshttps://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/anthropic-appears-to-have-ordered-ai-tool-claude-to-stop-remaking-video-games [23] Gemini image generation got it wrong. We'll do better.https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gemini/gemini-image-generation-issue/ [24] Google pauses AI-generated images of people after ethnicity criticismhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/22/google-pauses-ai-generated-images-of-people-after-ethnicity-criticism [25] Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen usershttps://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/meta-updates-chatbot-rules-to-avoid-inappropriate-topics-with-teen-users/ [26] Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical infohttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/ [27] Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alertshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5ggew08eyo [28] BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headlinehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0elzk24dno === Credits === Music provided by Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/vtdu5y (Referral Link) Music from Word Play OST, by Zach Jones