Needle In A Haystack Devs Accuse Clone of Copying Code as Haystack Games Pile Up on Steam

NoGlyph, developer of Needle In A Haystack, has accused Little Field Studios' A Game About Needle In A Haystack of copying its code, saying the game's files contain 13 classes with identical names and that over half the functions in that section match exactly. The accused game launched on October 16, while NoGlyph's released on September 29 and its free demo went out on September 20 and 21. NoGlyph has filed a copyright notice with Valve, and the accused game's Steam description discloses genAI use only for its logo.