@Developers Illegal copy "Survive on Raft" ?

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Suppenkoch Jun 24, 2019 @ 10:40am

@Developers Illegal copy "Survive on Raft" ?

Hi there,

please pay attention to the following game. It seems to be an illegal copy of yours. I of course have no clue if it is so, but in your interest you may have a look.
Thanks

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094000/Survive_on_Raft/

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Originally posted by Anonymous Helper:

Originally posted by lpnlizard27:
Well Raft proper has been in development for over 2 years. Not sure when the ftp mobile clone came about, but the mobile market is full of stolen ideas and clone games.

Would not surprise me at all if someone noticed raft getting attention and pumped out a similar game as fast as they could. They even named the game so similar as to cause Google/ YouTube searches to overlap with both titles showing up.

The original Raft prototype was released for free on itch.io on 19th of December, 2016 (it's still available there for anyone interested: https://raft.itch.io/raft). It became so popular that the developers (who were still university students at the time) decided to make it into commercial game so they refined the prototype and released it on Steam.

History of Raft: https://www.raft-game.com/presskit.html

Unfortunately with popularity came dozens of copycats. Most of them have stayed on Google Play store. Currently I'm aware of two clones on Steam: Survive on Raft and Ocean Nomad: Survival on Raft. Feature wise they're closer to the original Raft prototype than the Steam version of Raft.

The developers are aware of them but either they can't or decided it not being worth to sue them (legal battles are long and costly).

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Shadeem Jun 21, 2019 @ 2:33pm

survive on raft

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094000/Survive_on_Raft/ ermmm inspired? I think we can say a bit more than than, everyone I Link that too think it is this game

RetroTekGuy has Raft

Jun 21, 2019 @ 3:55pm

That's the el cheapo mobile version ported to PC.

KillaKitti has Raft

Jun 23, 2019 @ 5:55am

wow lmao terrible

ADHDkittin has Raft

Jun 24, 2019 @ 11:29pm

omg it really is

WonkaVicious has Raft

Jun 25, 2019 @ 2:32am

and a bad one at that

Anonymous Helper

Jun 25, 2019 @ 3:36am

According to a post on discord, the developers are already aware. Whether or not they can do anything about it, we'll just have to wait and see. Mobile market is littered with Raft clones for some reason. Survive on Raft is just one of them.

As far as I can tell, this is almost 1:1 copy of the original Raft prototype[raft.itch.io]. I've no idea why anyone would buy this on PC:

https://youtu.be/9tZ1HT5mFzE

Last edited by Anonymous Helper; Jun 25, 2019 @ 3:42am

Yes, I have a Mic. has Raft

Jun 26, 2019 @ 5:12am

You guys are so cynical. They inserted two different words into the title and swapped barrels for boxes.
Its completely different.

tenser Jul 4, 2019 @ 5:38am

also its broken cause chests dont work and parts of raft randomly disappear after autosave

bluedragon77 has Raft

Jul 5, 2019 @ 4:56am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fhwsmXQUfc&feature=youtu.be my gameplay. In my opinion this is a pretty bad game... Just makes me wanna buy the original raft game now..

Asalleer

Jul 5, 2019 @ 11:07am

reminds me of another "developer" who reskined a copy and paste game right down to the original coding errors that the actual developer had already fixed.

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