Apple’s App Retailer evaluation has but once more let not less than one unofficial cellular port of a scorching new sport present up on the shop – this time, it’s Blue Prince.
In a joint put up on Monday, Blue Prince’s developer, Dogubomb, and its writer, Uncooked Fury, mentioned that they’ve “acquired stories of video games claiming to be Blue Prince on iOS.” At the moment, the sport is simply obtainable on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation.
I simply discovered one iOS copy of the sport simply by looking Blue Prince on the App Retailer – it was the primary search outcome. The icon appears to be like like it might be the icon for a hypothetical cellular model of the sport, the itemizing has screenshots that appear like they’re certainly from Blue Prince, and the outline for the sport matches the outline on Steam.
However on the iOS clone’s itemizing, the sport’s vendor is listed as “Samet Altinay,” and I can’t discover any connection between this individual and Blue Prince exterior of this App Retailer itemizing. The copyright can be attributed to “DogBomb,” as a substitute of Dogubomb.
I bought this unofficial model of Blue Prince, which prices $9.99, and put in it on my iPhone 16 Professional to try it out. In a couple of minutes of enjoying, it seems to be a barely modified model of the particular Blue Prince sport, although with a number of tweaks to make it better-suited for cellular, like a digital joystick. I’ve additionally already run into a serious bug: once I tried to stroll by way of one of many doorways from the Entrance Corridor, I fell by way of the ground.
Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Based on the itemizing, this unofficial cellular port is the #8 paid app within the Leisure class on iOS. However thus far, it solely has one three-star evaluation, with the author saying in addition they hit a bug that triggered them to fall by way of the ground.
Dogubomb and Uncooked Fury haven’t formally introduced an iOS port of Blue Prince. “We have now no information about different platforms right now, but when that modifications we are going to make an official announcement,” they mentioned within the put up. “Whereas we examine we’d kindly ask that you don’t buy or obtain these apps.”
Apple has beforehand allowed copycats of video games like Wordle and Palworld to seem on the App Retailer.
