RAID: Shadow Legends
Overselling rather than substitution, at enormous scale
What the ads show. Big-budget cinematic productions, frequently featuring well-known personalities, presenting the game as a graphically ambitious dark fantasy epic.
What the game is. A turn-based collection RPG. The combat is real, but the visual register of the ads sits well above what runs on a phone.
Status. No ruling. Documented as probably the most notorious case of intense and exaggerated mobile game marketing, to the point where the campaign itself became a running internet joke independent of the game.
A distinction worth keeping. This is overselling, not substitution. The genre in the ad matches the genre in the game. That puts it at the mild end of this directory, and it is why the evidence field says press coverage rather than a ruling. Anyone treating it as equivalent to a pin-pulling ad is overstating the case.
