A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince is climbing the App Store charts

This is simply a screenshot from the PC mentation of the crippled — not the unofficial mobile one. | Image: Raw Fury

Apple’s App Store reappraisal has yet again fto astatine slightest 1 unofficial mobile larboard of a blistery caller crippled amusement up connected the store – this time, it’s Blue Prince.

In a associated station on Monday, Blue Prince’s developer, Dogubomb, and its publisher, Raw Fury, said that they person “received reports of games claiming to beryllium Blue Prince connected iOS.” Currently, the crippled is lone disposable connected Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation.

I easy recovered 1 iOS transcript of the crippled conscionable by searching Blue Prince connected the App Store – it was the archetypal hunt result. The icon looks similar it would beryllium the icon for a hypothetical mobile mentation of the game, the listing has screenshots that look similar they’re so from Blue Prince, and the statement for the crippled matches the statement connected Steam.

But connected the iOS clone’s listing, the game’s seller is listed arsenic “Samet Altinay,” and I can’t find immoderate transportation betwixt this idiosyncratic and Blue Prince extracurricular of this App Store listing. The copyright is besides attributed to “DogBomb,” alternatively of Dogubomb.

I purchased this unofficial mentation of Blue Prince, which costs $9.99, and installed it connected my iPhone 16 Pro to trial it out. In a fewer minutes of playing, it appears to beryllium a barely-modified mentation of the existent Blue Prince game, though with a fewer tweaks to marque it better-suited for mobile, similar a virtual joystick. I’ve besides already tally into a large bug: erstwhile I tried to locomotion done 1 of the doors from the Entrance Hall, I fell done the floor.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. According to the listing, this unofficial mobile larboard is the #8 paid app successful the Entertainment class connected iOS. But truthful far, it lone has 1 three-star review, with the writer saying they besides deed a bug that caused them to autumn done the floor.

Dogubomb and Raw Fury person not officially announced an iOS larboard of Blue Prince. “We person nary quality astir different platforms astatine this time, but if that changes we volition marque an authoritative announcement,” they said successful the post. “While we analyse we would kindly inquire that you bash not acquisition oregon download these apps.”

Apple has antecedently allowed copycats of games similar Wordle and Palworld to look connected the App Store.