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 s☂creenshot showing the location has been 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 while going through the Greenl☂ight 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. According to claim♉s 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 for $6.29/£4.49. All seems above the board at first, but the claims we received 𓃲do 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 through s 𝓡is due to promising keys for votes, a practise slammed by Valve a while back.

Big Fish Legend is also available as a  of Russian developer a🌊nd publisher Alawar. , having released quite a few games already. Companies registered as 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 it 👍be doing a Greenlight under the name of a totally different company? A company which is alr✱eady known as hosting Flash games?

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

Destructoid ha🌟s contacted Alawar for comment, and we will update shoul♊d we hear from them.