Steam product App ID 2384540 was initially masquerading as Assassin's Creed Mirage, but later changed its title, description, and images to Pirateland.
Behind the Pirateland Steam page are developer Global Development and publisher Global Entertainment. They also created the game Fantasy of Medieval, which originally appeared as Skull and Bones by Ubisoft.
The games used AI-generated images to simulate modern video game graphics, and Pirateland appeared to use a photo of actor Josh Duhamel.
Blogger Patrick Steel purchased Pirateland and checked the game’s contents, but found nothing. The game would not launch and could not be uninstalled due to the absence of .exe files in the Steam folder.
Currently, the pages for these games no longer exist.
As a reminder, game creators can pay Valve 100 US dollars to list their products on Steam, but it is clear that this system is flawed, as no one checks whether these games are genuine or not.
Steam has been around for two decades, so it is strange to see that besides games with embedded cryptocurrency miners, scam games are also appearing here.