By Amelia Zollner
Publication Date: 2026-02-11 13:31:00
Minecraft is the best-selling game ever, so it’s naturally inspired dozens of Minecraft clones and similar-looking, voxel-based crafting sims over the past 15 or so years. Many have survived without any complaint from Microsoft. But earlier this week, an upcoming Steam game called Allumeria was briefly taken down over a single screenshot.
On Tuesday, the developer behind the Minecraft-looking, dungeon-raiding sandbox announced that their game had been taken down from Valve’s storefront due to a DMCA copyright notice issued by Microsoft. The notice, shared by developer Unomelon in the game’s Discord server, accused Allumeria of using “Minecraft content, including but not limited to gameplay and assets.”
The takedown was apparently issued over one specific screenshot from the game’s Steam page. It shows a vaguely Minecraft-esque world with birch trees, tall grass, a blue sky, and pumpkins: all things that are in Minecraft but also in real…
