Below the Surface:Uncovering the Truth in the Sewers

"Below the Surface:Uncovering the Truth in the Sewers" is a fairly basic Unreal asset flipped adventure game, one of many hundreds, if not thousands of these glutting Steam. The "developer" paid for/pirated some Unreal assets, namely a basic apartment and a couple of other objects, arranged them haphazardly in a first person adventure game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. We know for sure that this is an asset flip from the sheer number of times the Chinese "developer" of this shovelware has launched this game onto Steam, with the only difference being the asset pack that's been combined with the template. The template itself is a very basic first person adventure/scavenger hunt. Ther…