You’ve probably never heard of Limbo of the Lost, a 2D point-n-click adventure from Majestic Studios, nor would you have any reason to. But Limbo of the Lost got huge media coverage today… just not the good kind.

Today, game news site GamePlasma noticed that one of the backgrounds looked a lot like a location in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Like, exactly like it. Almost as if it were blatantly stolen. Which it apparently was.

Soon, more similarities popped up soon at the NeoGaf forums. Do take the time to read through that. Each new set of screenshots is more wonderful than the last. Assets were pilfered from Painkiller, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, World of Warcraft, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Diablo 2. One statue is nothing more than a digital picture of a Lord of the Rings bust.

For the trailer, they even took footage from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

Publisher Tri Synergy has suspended distribution of the game and is waiting to hear from Majestic Studios, who are apparently “on vacation.”

Ironically, this could be the best thing that ever happened for the game, popularity-wise. Nobody had even heard of the game before. Now it’s going to be a collectors item, going down in history as the most plagaristic game of all time.

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