Did this other game steal assets from Rogue: Genesia ?

[Radiowavehero]

So I figured it was best to ask here in case this is big deal or not.

i saw this idle game that had a few very familiar monsters in the trailer video https://store.steampowered.com/app/3196540/IdleTale/ First at 7 seconds in the trailer we see an "eyebat" which looks the same as the flying eye enemies in this game , then at 19 seconds you see a worm that looks like a recolor of the spitter worm (had to check bestiary for the name) and at 40 seconds there is a mushroom enemy which also looks like a toxic mushroom recolored, Saw a few others that look familiar like the "forest ogre" but I couldn't remember where I saw it before.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3196540/ss_b3b3bdba5f4ed971abb95db21c9a2144abdb95f3.jpg?t=1725522081

These aren't just same common designs like lizardmen or goblins that appear in multiple places , these look like the assets from this game copied over with almost no change.

I actually checked the dev name thinking maybe this was a side project but Rogue Genesia is Ouadi Huard and the other game is Ed Grace , maybe if one had been a persons name and the other a company name I would have thought one was just a side project by the same person but since both developers use their actual names it seems unlikely.

But maybe they are a fan and got permission, I dunno so I figured I should ask here.

Once is a happenstance, twice is a coincidence but three times..... (maybe 4 or more if other people have sharper eyes)

[Earnest]

In all likelihood, they simply bought the same asset pack.

[Ares__Morningstar]

Hate to break it to you but most enemies in games now are just reskins. Eyebats been done a hundred times, so have worms, skeletons, goblins, you name it. Very few people look at character designs any more because it's all been done before

[Radiowavehero]

I get that a "skeleton is a skeleton is a skeleton" , I'm not talking about one game having the same generic enemies as another , this is like the exact same pixels and animations for 3 or more enemies.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3327480608

Maybe Earnest is right and they both use the same asset store ?

I don't know that's why I figured I'd post and maybe if it was something original that was copied the dev would at least know about it.

[Dorim]

They come from CC0 assets on itchio
https://luizmelo.itch.io/monsters-creatures-fantasy
https://luizmelo.itch.io/fire-worm
Even the character rog itself is a free use asset, not sure if from the same artist or someone else but I've seen it somewhere on itch.

Edit: found it
https://aamatniekss.itch.io/fantasy-knight-free-pixelart-animated-character

[Radiowavehero]

Ah good to know , I thought it might be something like that but didn't know how to go about finding it out. Thank you for clearing that up.

[PlexusDuMenton]

No assets got stolen by them.

Yeah I still have a few placeholder assets from the super early day (Mushroom, goblin and worm) that are from assets pack.
This is the reason the Giant worm got a redesign (which took 1 year to animate as it was non-urgent) with update 0.10.

For rog itself, it was based on the free assets linked by Dorim, but It got redraw since then.

All the new content added since EA release are custom made for R:G (to avoid this sort of issues and to make the game more unique)