Sony Interactive Leisure has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Tencent in California federal court docket, alleging that the corporate ripped off its Horizon collection of video video games with the November 2024-announced title Mild of Motiram, in line with a Reuters report.

The lawsuit describes Mild of Motiram as a “slavish clone” that includes an identical gameplay, story themes, and creative components to Horizon, in addition to different similarities.

Sony Interactive Leisure additionally mentioned within the lawsuit that it declined a proposal from Tencent to collaborate on a brand new Horizon sport in 2024, earlier than Tencent introduced Mild of Motiram.

Based on the lawsuit, journalists have described Mild of Motiram as a “knock-off” of Horizon, together with one who referred to as the sport “Horizon Zero Originality.”

Sony Interactive Leisure requested the court docket for an unspecified quantity in financial damages, and an order blocking Tencent from violating its mental property rights.

Neither Sony Interactive Leisure or Tencent instantly responded to Reuters’ requests for remark.

Regardless of the lawsuit, Sony Interactive Leisure Shanghai posted on its social channels in November 2024 that Mild of Motiram would even be launched for PlayStation 5, suggesting that the corporate had no difficulty with the sport’s similarities to the Horizon collection. Whereas the Weibo and Bililbi posts have since been eliminated, the Weibo submit continues to be accessible through Archive.org.