Strategy title Myth of Empires has been removed from Steam over copyright infringement allegations.
The game’s developer Angela Game has declined to reveal who requested the game’s removal, but PC Gamer reports it was from the developer and publisher of Ark: Survival Evolved, Studio Wildcard and Snail Games.
The takedown request documents say Angela Game employs numerous former Snail Games employees and at least one had access to the Ark: Survival Evolved source code.
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Studio Wildcard became “understandably concerned” at similarities between the two games, including identical gameplay mechanics it believed were beyond coincidence. Comparing the code, the developers claim to have found hundreds of matching class, variable and function names, which they say confirms the source code was used in Myth of Empires.