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Oh yes, I do remember that. That's the first time we noticed that someone had stolen our game (along with a super famous game, Five Nights at Freddy's) and uploaded it to itch.io. We reported it immediately when we found out about it but it took like 3 weeks, if I remember correctly, for Itch to take action and delete that page. So yeah, they were a scammer who stole games from multiple other developers and reuploaded them to Itch.

I am quite certain that our itch page has never been renamed, and we have never been called "revolutionary-creations" anywhere. If you did pay for Thrive on such a page it was unfortunately probably a scam. You should probably contact Itch.io support to sort out the situation on where your money went.

Thanks for the feedback.

I've noticed the same thing in Thrive before, which I like to call the dual nature of the game. We are both making a species editor the player uses to make strategic choices but also an action gameplay component where those changes have an impact. So Thrive has this dual nature where neither side of the game is the entire game, but instead the sides try to complement each other. 

I think we are kind of entrenched on this design and can't really consider removing either half of the game. A purely creature designing and watching kind of game would be a different game than Thrive, sadly. I think it would make Thrive a totally different game if we removed the swimming around portion so we unfortunately cannot satisfy everyone.

You can download the free Thrive Launcher from GitHub here: https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive-Launcher/releases 

It is allowed as long as you follow all terms of the GPLv3 license for the source code and for the game assets (graphics, sounds etc.) the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license terms.

The price in USD is the same. Due to currency conversions in some currencies the Steam version ends up being cheaper, because itch doesn't have regional pricing.