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stardew valley is a rip off harvest moon and still took 4 years to develop.

dwarf fortress has alot of fully original concepts, and has been in development for 20 years.

It's definitely a rip off (or, 'inspired by' to put it more kindly), but Stardew managed to make it much more enjoyable and feature-rich than the long Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons lines - and by just the one guy.

But there's a lot of others like that. Hollow Knight is a better Metroid / Castlevania. Shadow of Tsushima is a better Assassin's Creed. Final Fantasy XIV is a better World of Warcraft. Dwarf Fortress is a better Rogue/Nethack. I will go into hiding now.

I think he saw the potential for a HM-like to be far more feature-rich, and correctly predicted that it would be well received. The HM series was basically stagnant, but they were the only game in town.

Strongly disagree about Hollow Knight, but it's greater than the sum of its parts.

Is it a rip off? I'm sure multiple people can have the same ideas.

Vampire Survival released a few months ago, while Magic Survival was released a few years ago. They're extremely similar games.

I guess at the end it depends on what's your definition of rip off.

Is Torchlight a rip off of Diablo or do they just use similar mechanics and ideas?

Stardew Valley is unashamedly a Harvest Moon rip off. This isn’t a bad thing though, Concerned Ape took a formula that the original creators had been phoning in for years and created the best version of that formula ever made.

Torchlight is made by 2 of the Diablo/Diablo 2 developers.

> Is Torchlight a rip off of Diablo or do they just use similar mechanics and ideas?

Well, Torchlight had designers from Diablo 1 & 2 on the team as well as Diablo's composer/sound designer, so it's a bit of a special case.

Diablo invented a genre, Torchlight, Grim Dawn, Path of Exile carry the torch (ha) further. I don't believe they ever denied Diablo's influence and inspiration on them.

Is League of Legends a DotA ripoff (the mod), or is DotA (the full game) a League of Legends ripoff?

Not your point, but League of Legends, DOTA2 (DOTA is a the trademarked, Valve name, DotA for the mod) and Heroes of NewEarth all had had people who worked on at least a version of the original DotA All Stars mod so technically they're all equally sequels or continuations. It's Heroes of the Storm and SMITE that are the rip-offs :).

Or at the very least, League, DOTA2, and HoN (may it soon RIP) are all equally rip-offs of the original mods.

It's definitely strongly influenced by Stardew Valley and reuse some of its mechanics and gameplay loops but it does add a lot to them.It's as much a ripoff of it than Rayman is a ripoff of Mario and Half Life a ripoff of Doom. It's very much a sprawling game. It's not surprising it took a long time to develop.

no matter your opinion about the game itself, it's valid mentioning it as a passion project though

Are all FPS games DOOM ripoffs?

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