As some might have noticed, the game was delisted from the store for the last couple weeks and is now back under the new name Breaking Survivors.
So, what happened ?
I won't go much in detail with the legal stuff but here are the rough events of the last few weeks :
- Game received a DMCA takedown for copyright infringement
- Steam unlisted the game from the store (standard procedure, they have to do it preventively)
- Discussions with my lawyer and the other party
- DMCA takedown got withdrawn with a trademark infringement replacing it
- I changed the name of the game to comply
- Steam relisted the game as everything was fine now
Basically, the old name (Breakout Survivors) was causing issues as "Breakout" is trademarked and I had to remove that from the game's title.
So, the game is now called Breaking Survivors and everything is fine now.