“Nintendo are letting this slide”.
Scam games on the Switch eShop are all too common of an occurrence these days. They generally tend to target bigger releases (we’ve seen rip-offs of The Last of Us, TOTK and Pokémon TCG Pocket in recent years), but that’s not to say that indie devs are safe from the cloning, as was recently discovered by The Backrooms 1998 developer, Steelkrill.
The Backrooms 1998 is a found-footage horror game that launched on the Switch eShop earlier this month, after arriving in Steam Early Access back in 2022. It seems to contain all of the chills and thrills that you’d expect from the genre, with creepy mannequins, hidden corners and jump-scares aplenty — not the kind of thing we’d want to play without a cushion to hide behind, but good for those feeling brave.
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