Gorilla Tag fangames/clones

Gorilla Tag fangames/clones
Omny Tag, an example of a clone based on Gorilla Tag. Why do these keep infesting the Meta Quest Store with shovelware?
Genre(s): Casual, Action Platform(s): Meta Quest Release Date: 2022-present

Gorilla Tag, whilst a good game, has spawned some fangames/clones. Most fangames can be considered as well-received by the community, whilst some can't. This page covers it all.

Qualities That Get Tagged By The Lava Monke

NOTE: not all of them are bad, this page only covers the clones. Whilst some fangames can be good, as mentioned previously, this page will be talking about the clones.

1. The main problem is that most fangames are exact copies of previous Gorilla Tag updates, but are commonly consisting of the previous update with the opportunity to hack without getting banned.
   • To make it more worse, it's even easier to go out the map thanks to built-in mods, which is bannable.
2. Many of them seem to get delisted and have low player counts or no players online over time, thus, making the latter technically unplayable & possibly shut down without notice. Does this sound familiar?
3. Many of them have mediocre graphics, especially when compared to the original Gorilla Tag updates, with the worst offender being the shovelware games.
4. Some of them are turning the Meta Quest store into a target of shovelware for virtual reality This proves that it's easy to abuse developer accounts.
5. Quantity over quality: the same games keep on getting released on the store, but it's the exact same as what it was before.
6. Third party applications such as SideQuest/Itch.io offer some bad/mediocre Gorilla Tag fangames. As mentioned in WTLMTT#3, they can also count as a shovelware market for fangames.
   • The aforementioned platforms have no quality control at all like Google Play and Steam Greenlight. There can also be fangames/clones that are disguised as viruses, which can potentially brick your Oculus headset.
   • Technically, the fangames being released on the original Oculus Quest headset have no reason to be released, because the Oculus Quest is starting to become obsolete in favour of its successors.
7. Poor moderation: some of them barely have any moderators at all. Usually, you would apply to get moderator from the game's Discord server, but since the Gorilla Tag playerbase is usually filled with children under the age of 13, they are unable to apply, to comply with the age of consent to officially use Discord.
   • More cases of bad moderation are from the fact that players can get banned for doing nothing, and that's it. Have they turned Scratch into a virtual reality platform or something?
   • It should also be noted that sometimes moderators ignore player reports, even if a player egregiously violates the rules, which is very greedy. This can be seen as avoiding any form of criticism. Seriously?
8. Gameplay videos about the clones tend to be advertisements for the game as there is no quality of the video's plot itself, making it look like something promotional.
9. False advertising: Many clones have mod menus mentioned in its features, but there are no mod menus to be found sometimes.
10. They seem to be a nostalgia baiting target, since most copies of Gorilla Tag are set in previous updates.
11. Due to some popular cosmetics being put on sale in some copies, they are easily prone to impersonation of Gorilla Tag content creators such as Elliot, TTTPig, YumYum, K9 and Jmancurly. They have the Finger Painter badge, which its point is easy to understand, where it's used to stop impersonators.
    • It should be noted that sometimes they put exclusive cosmetics such as the Finger Painter and the Moderator Stick. As the Stick was mentioned, it can be prone to impersonation of Gorilla Tag moderators as well as content creators.
12. Incorrect age ratings: Scary Baboon, whilst a good game, has a rating of Pegi 3, which doesn't make sense because Scary Baboon is a horror game and the sounds/character designs could scare younger players. If it were to have been rated Pegi 12, then it would make sense.
13. Also, there is a chance that they could also look unfinished as they are very easy to make and publish onto SideQuest, the Meta Quest store or Itch.io. Many of them are copies of other fangames.
14. In the copies, if a cosmetic is listed for 0 shiny rocks, it cannot be purchased for some reason, which absolutely makes no sense because it's free.
15. Most of them steal the source code of the original Gorilla Tag.
16. Cosmetics can be inappropriate for the game's target audience. For example, in Water Tag, there's a cosmetic that almost resembles a penis. Its rating? Pegi 3.
17. Overall, they can abuse Another Axiom's copyright, to make it more serious.
    • Another Axiom, has only been aware of one infringing clone, and they cannot take down other clones. It does kind of show that they can be a bit slimy to criticism.
    • In February 2024, Gorilla Tag was allegedly ported to the App Store, but it was full of repetitive ads, and you could not skip them. There was also a rumour that the game was allegedly malware as well. Thankfully, it has been delisted from the App Store.

Qualities That Still Become Monke

1. Some of them remove microtransactions, which is good.
2. Despite the baiting & copying previous updates but with modifications, they can seem nostalgic to some veteran Gorilla Tag players.
3. They are still faithful to the original Gorilla Tag.
4. Many of them allow you to have custom cosmetics as well as custom maps.
5. Technically, you could get every cosmetic in the copies for free, since in the copies, some of them allow you to start with infinite shiny rocks, equivalent to 2,147,483,647, because it's the 32 bit limit.
6. Quite a few fangames are good, for more info on the good fangames, go to the Gorilla Tag article.

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