Game on Steam rumoured to have been stolen by seller

All looks a bit fishy

[Update: It appears as though this may well have been an unfortunate misunderstanding, as the save location on the version of Big Fish Legend available from Alawar actually mentions Igry.ru. This screenshot showing the location has bee🌱n tweeted to us:

While this still doesn’t confirm Igry.ru have the distribution rights to Big Fish Legend, it makes it much more likely they they didn’t simply copy and upload the game to Greenlight as was suspected. 

This also still does not answer their actions whi𒁃le goi🃏ng through the Greenlight process. We are currently still waiting for a response from Alawar.]

A game recently released on Steam called  may have been stolen from its original developers, according to message recieved by Destructoid. Accor♑ding to𓆉 claims sent privately to Destructoid, it may not be being sold by the true developers.

The Steam page claims it is developed and published by a company called Igry.ru, and is being sold fo𝓰r $6.29/£4.49. All seems above the board at first, but the claims we received do have weight to them.

Igry.ru isn’t a known developer, instead it is a free flash game website in Russia, hosting a whole load of games with dubious copyrights. Big Fish Legend is its only game released on Steam.

It’s also worth pointing out the only reason Big Fish Legend even got thr👍ough s is due to promising keys for votes, a practise slammed by Valve a while back.

Big Fish Legend is also availabl🍰e as a  of Russian developer and publisher Alawar. , having released quite a few games already. Companies registered ꧑as publishers on Steam don’t need to use Greenlight, and can simply release games themselves.

If Alawar wanted to put its free title Big Fish Legend on Steam, why would i𒈔t be doing a Greenlight under the name of a totally different company? A company 🐟which is already known as hosting Flash games?

Now this could all be a big misunderstanding. It is worth pointing out this is based on claims and rumours from unconnected parties at the moment. I🐭gry.ru might well be making a push into the publis🤪hing space, and this could all be totally above-board.

Destructoid has contacted Alawar for comment, and we will update should we hear🀅 from them.