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Both games only really ripped off Nintendo's aesthetics, with not that much similarity in gameplay.

That’s a load-bearing “only”.

Lots of cope in these replies. You can easily look up youtube comparisons of these games to see how similar they are, even mechanically in many cases.

You can go all the way back to when Facebook was the dominant gaming platform to realize how much leeway there is: what actually got Vostu in trouble - privately settling that is - was copying so blatantly they "inherited" bugs from Zynga.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/16/war-zynga-sues-the-hell-ou...

https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/20/vostu-goes-on-the-offensiv...

https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/zynga-vostu-settle-copyrig...

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