Schedule 1 continues to enjoy great popularity since its release. In addition to players, developers have also taken notice and sense an opportunity to get to your money.
How are fans being deceived? Schedule 1 is currently a huge hit on Steam. Many players and also streamers are building their drug empire and making a lot of money. However, Schedule 1 is only playable on PC – PS5 and Xbox are thus left empty-handed.
Exactly this has been sensed by other developers who now see it as an opportunity to get to your money. They want to deceive you and are creating clones of Schedule 1 out of nothing, which they plan to release throughout 2025.
Copies on PS5 are bordering on audacity
How audacious are the copies? So far, two copies have made it to the PlayStation Store, listed as “Schedule 1 Syndicate” and “Schedule 1: Dope Empire”. The former has already been taken off the market by PlayStation officials, but the latter can still be viewed in the shop (via store.playstation.com).
Apart from the fact that the still-existing copy of Schedule 1 copies the name of the hit, many “similarities” to the original can be observed. The product image of the copy shares the same gesture as the original, and the product description also mentions the location “Hyland Point”, the same fictional city where you roam in the original.
Moreover, this is not the same developer who created the hit on Steam, but an unknown studio with games that are bordering on parodies. This includes Grand Taking Ages (a play on GTA) and Dark Farts: Bollywood Smell Edition (a play on Dark Souls).
It is only a matter of time before Sony removes this title from the shop as well, but until then, you should be cautious.
Will Schedule 1 be released on console? We cannot answer that with certainty. The original game is currently only being expanded by one developer. Furthermore, according to the Steam page, the game will remain in Early Access for up to 2 years.
It is not unlikely that Schedule 1 could make it to consoles, but since it is an indie game and currently only one developer supplies the game with patches and some updates, it may still take a few years, if at all. What the developer behind Schedule 1 still plans can be seen in the roadmap: Schedule 1 and its roadmap: All content you can expect in the future
