Aren't game titles exclusive to one game?

[Jerry]

So far, I kind of assumed, that specific names on the Steam Store can only be picked once (unless a previously existing version is removed). Assumed, that was the reason, why games tend to get more and more complex appendages.
I don't know, why I thought so, but I did.

So I was sort of surprised, when I just spotted a second game named OneShot beside the better known one:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/420530/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1221330/

Was I wrong about the mechanics in place, or is there one of these hidden non-latin letters, that look the same, but make it non-identical?

[[N]ebsun]

1 of them has a space in the name on the store page

[JVC]

The system may bug out on duplicate titles but there's little to do there. E.g. if you search for "Archimedes" you'll only see one game but JetDogs made a time management game with the same title which kept showing up as available then removed from the store within days, probably because some software bugged out.

Nothing can prevent a developer from using a title unless it's trademarked. If that was possible, anyone and his grandmother would have tried copyrighting all rights to naming books or movies something containing "World War 2".

[ReBoot]

Didn't know a game title could differ between store/community pages. Interesting!

[Sazzouu]

Why would they be? Game titles are just a combination of words. Unless you trademarked them they are free to use.

[Sazzouu]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Didn't know a game title could differ between store/community pages. Interesting!

That is absolutely not what is happening here

[Sazzouu]

Originally posted by Lord Sir Dr. Santa Nebsun:

1 of them has a space in the name on the store page

That is absolutely not what is happening here

[Vault Hunter 101]

Originally posted by Sazzouu:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Didn't know a game title could differ between store/community pages. Interesting!

That is absolutely not what is happening here

Originally posted by Sazzouu:

Originally posted by Lord Sir Dr. Santa Nebsun:

1 of them has a space in the name on the store page

That is absolutely not what is happening here

It actually is happening.

One game is named "OneShot" but other is named "One Shot"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221330/One_Shot/

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Sazzouu:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Didn't know a game title could differ between store/community pages. Interesting!

That is absolutely not what is happening here

Originally posted by Sazzouu:

Originally posted by Lord Sir Dr. Santa Nebsun:

1 of them has a space in the name on the store page

That is absolutely not what is happening here

It isn't? https://imgur.com/a/z0MmFET

[Sazzouu]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by Sazzouu:

That is absolutely not what is happening here

Originally posted by Sazzouu:

That is absolutely not what is happening here

It isn't? https://imgur.com/a/z0MmFET

The discussion about this came up several times already. The display name on the store page has nothing in concern with this topic.

The "original" OneShot was released at 2016. That OneShot (a.k.a One Shot) game was released two years ago and according to SteamDB it had the very same name - even the Metacritic entry carries the same title for both applications. The change of the display name to "One Shot" happened a few months after. But again the actual name of the product still remains "OneShot" both in libraries and the community as well as "behind the scenes" on the store. The display name was chosen for convenience so you can rather search for "One Shot" to find that "unique" application.

EDIT:
https://ibb.co/dGRwfm2
https://ibb.co/thnMYvz

[Crazy Tiger]

All of that is correct, but it doesn't change that the displayed name between the community page and the store page for one game is different. Which was the observation 2 people made. And the way you responded, you were telling them that wasn't true, when in fact their observation about the displayed names was correct.

[Jerry]

I feel, like the situation will become even more confusing soon. There's another contender for the name version with a space coming.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1498690/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1498690/One_Shot/

Thanks for the answers.

[[N]ebsun]

Wasn't there an issue with the name DOTA and DOTA2, and who had the rights to the name of the game ? pretty sure blizzard and valve were fighting in court for exclusive usage of the name of the game.

You couldn't just make a new game and expect to be able to name it "Call of Duty" or "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive"

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Originally posted by Jerry:

So far, I kind of assumed, that specific names on the Steam Store can only be picked once (unless a previously existing version is removed). Assumed, that was the reason, why games tend to get more and more complex appendages.
I don't know, why I thought so, but I did.

So I was sort of surprised, when I just spotted a second game named OneShot beside the better known one:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/420530/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1221330/

Was I wrong about the mechanics in place, or is there one of these hidden non-latin letters, that look the same, but make it non-identical?

Interesting find but you'll notice that the second one, for some reason has a different title on the store page than it does on the hub page (not sure why that is) :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221330/One_Shot/

As you can see, the second one has a space between the words "One" and "Shot" unlike the more popular indie game, "OneShot" which consistently has no space between the words.

Originally posted by Jerry:

I feel, like the situation will become even more confusing soon. There's another contender for the name version with a space coming.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1498690/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1498690/One_Shot/

Thanks for the answers.

Okay, this is weird... why does everyone want THIS name, in particular, so badly???

I never imagined that combination of words would be so highly sought after...

[Pscht]

"One-Shot" is also a powerful gun in the Gears of War games. Guess what it does.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Pscht:

"One-Shot" is also a powerful gun in the Gears of War games. Guess what it does.

Well, guessing it is. It could be a railgun, it could be a nuke, could be a huge-ass shotgun. Killing something/a lot with one single shot is a wide concept in video games