Creator of horror game Poppy Playtime sues Google for refusing to remove 'bait-and-switch scam' apps that pretend to be the real thing then charge users up to $95 for literally nothing

Fuzzy children's show character with blue fur but rendered monstrous with void eyes and rows of shark teeth.

As reported by Polygon and TorrentFreak, Mob Entertainment, the studio behind popular Five Nights at Freddy's-alike Poppy Playtime, has filed a lawsuit against Google for failing to remove fraudulent Poppy Playtime apps from its Android Play Store.

At first blush, I assumed this had to do with those weird fake games whose ads you see all over YouTube and Twitter, but it's somehow even worse than that: The outfit in question, Daigo Game 2020, has products on the Play Store literally titled "Poppy Playtime Chapter 4" and "Poppy Playtime: Chapter 3." At the time of writing, these apps are still available for download. Daigo Game 2020's previous works, including "Minecraft 2020" and a sampling of similarly unlicensed Skibidi Toilet games, have unsurprisingly been removed from the store.