>Everything is derivative. The only reason for all these building games was dwarf fortress becoming more known in public spaces. Amongus is a simplified ripoff of the ss13 concept. Even minecraft is a ripoff of many previous publicly available 'game experiments', notoriously infiniminer. Cult of the lamb is a bad clone of binding of isaac, stardew valley is a 1:1 clone of, specifically, rune factory 3 (with added contents of course, but everything down to the special effect design and running physics were copied straight up), etc.
Honestly this, way too many indie games are just trying to appeal to the algorithms for the sites that the normals use, or some pseudointellectual "video essayists" or streamers to force it into the public consciousness
eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkiiOdgDdO8