If this artist plagiarized Sounas, then Sounas almost certainly plagiarized some other cute monster-themed games. As others have pointed out, he seems to have taken direct inspiration from other past games in the genre.
And to me, that's okay. I don't think Sounas plagiarized or the artist of Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake plagiarized. At least, not from the comparisons being made. These are all people working in a very similar, simple style, but that they seem to be riffing off of one another is not plagiarism. If I made a cute monster-themed game, I'd probably look at other cute monster-themed games, and frankly, the result might even have some apparent similarities like this.
Clearly the artist of this new game got rather close with the island and skull, but Sounas is kidding himself to suggest that he somehow owns the vision of a generic island shape like that and evil skull mountain. He does have reason to make it clear that he did not work on the game, as I wouldn't have been surprised to hear he had, but in my opinion, this artwork does not appear to be plagiarism. As an artist, I get why it might bother him, but he should recognize the difference between strong influence and plagiarism.
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