Hey, I just wanted to thank you for your overwhelming support here for my last post: I’m a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do?

Quick summary of the situation: I’ve been working on my game called The Milgram Experiment for a while now and last week I found out a game with the exact same title was recently added to Steam. I wasn’t sure what to do and never considered such a scenario because I always thought that Valve would just prevent you from using a name of a game that already exists. I got a lot of comments with people recommending me to contact Steam, to trademark the name worldwide or to even to try and contact the other dev.

Resolution: The other game has now officially changed its name to The Obedience Experiment.

How: The other dev actually saw my posts across social media and reached out to me and explained that it was a coincidence and he is very open to changing the name (since my game had the title for 2 years). Our talk was genuine and I felt there was no malice on his part. So it’s all good now!

Feel free to wishlist both games if you like what you see:

The Milgram Experiment on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719670/The_Milgram_Experiment

The Obedience Experiment on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4777470/The_Obedience_Experiment/

Thanks for helping out a little indie dev and please tell me what do you think of both games? Which title is more catchy? Any feedback is more than welcome :)