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Retro Rail Go! Dev Removes AI Assets & Rebrands Following "Online Hate & Accusations"

Retro Rail Go! is now Retro Rail: Japan! Barely Making Games, the developer of the upcoming Steam tribute to Densha De Go!, Retro Rail Go!, has suggested it could soon "halt" development of the project altogether after receiving a torrent of negative feedback on social media, where users have dubbed the game a "rip-off" and have been trying to get it removed from Steam. Following the release of its demo earlier this month, the train sim was featured positively on four "big" gaming websites, incl

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Solo indie developer considering halting retro Japanese railway sim-inspired project amidst copycat accusations in Japan

Solo dev Barely Making Games recently announced that they are considering halting the development of Retro Rail GO!, following backlash.

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Developer Of Densha De Go "Tribute" Admits To Using AI, Considers Halting The Project Over "Online Hate & Accusations"

"This has saddened me to an extreme". Barely Making Games, the developer of the upcoming Steam tribute to Densha De Go!, Retro Rail Go!, has suggested it could soon "halt" development of the project altogether after receiving a torrent of negative feedback on social media, where users have dubbed the game a "rip-off," and have been trying to get it removed from Steam. Following the release of its demo earlier this month, the train sim was featured positively on four "big" gaming websites, includ

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This "Heartfelt Tribute To Classic Japanese Train Sims" Could Be Steam's Alternative To Densha De Go!

Retro Rail Go! is coming to Early Access soon. It's remarkable to think about, given Steam's ubiquity in the PC gaming space and the sheer number of Densha De Go! games produced over the years, but right now there's currently no way to buy any of Taito's classic Japanese simulation titles over on Valve's storefront. It's a fact that came as a pretty big surprise to me when I first bothered to look, having simply assumed that its publishers would at the very least have brought one of its older PC

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