Since it’s a day that ends in Y, it’d seem that we’re once again reporting on some really strange App Store removal drama. This particular instance smells an awful lot like what Choice of Games dealt with earlier this year when Apple determined that a company that releases game book apps on the App Store was actually spamming the App Store by releasing too many apps that look too similar to each other. Apple apparently still remains unaware that while game books all have words and illustrations in them, by changing those words and illustrations you can have vastly different games. Well, it’d seem the critically acclaimed macabre puzzle adventure series, Rusty Lake, has also been caught up in this absurd policy that Apple randomly decides to enforce:
To all who can't find our games in Apple's Appstore. Unfortunately all our games are removed from @AppStoreGames due spam and looking identical. We really hope this automatic generated removal and we are back online soon… https://t.co/ode4HCumBW
— Rusty Lake (@rustylakecom) January 3, 2019

If you’re looking for either Rusty Lake Paradise ($2.99) or Cube Escape (Free), you’ll need to download them somewhere other than the App Store. (Such as Google Play, Steam, and other platforms where you’re allowed to have multiple games that look the same.) This is a particularly baffling move, as the games themselves feature different characters, and different puzzles. T...