In a metaphor far too on the nose to turn into any form of fiction, at least without the writer getting mercilessly cyberbullied, a game about finding a needle in a haystack has now become the genuine needle at the heart of a pile of imitators. A pile so large, in fact, one copycat game stands accused of ripping code from another.

NoGlyph, developers of Needle In A Haystack, have claimed that their code's been nicked by A Game About Needle In A Haystack devs Little Field Studios. The former game was released on September 29th this year. The latter came out on October 16th. Both offer players a chance to go hunting for metal implements in piles of horse food, and both appear to have been inspired by the as-yet unreleased Needle In A Haystack Simulator, which gained notoriety after serving as the basis of a viral tweet in August.

These are just three of the needle-in-haystack games which've massed on Steam since that clip got a bunch of eyeballs, as various people look to fill the world's apparent desire to hunt stiching implements on a farm.

"Yesterday, on October 16th a game called 'A Game About Needle In A Haystack' by Little Field Studios came out on Steam," a Needle In A Haystack dev called Jahvin wrote in a Steam post over the weekend. "It contains code copied from our game. To be clear, this is about our actual code, not a similar idea or similar mechanics.

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