Palworld's January 2024 launch was met with sweeping comparisons to Pokemon - and eventually a lawsuit from Nintendo - and in something of a dubious full-circle moment for developer Pocketpair, a new game has emerged that looks like Palworld, Pokemon, and Zelda: Breath of the Wild put into a blender.
In full transparency and fairness, Palworld's creatures, Pals, share similarities with, but aren't direct copies of, specific Pokemon and the game itself is quite distinct from Pokemon in many ways. Meanwhile, Pickmon, from developer Pocketgame, looks like a completely unserious, blatant ripoff of not only Palworld but Pokemon and Breath of the Wild as well, featuring monster designs, environments, and gameplay features ripped directly from those games. I don't know if it's AI, but it reeks of AI slop. Take a look:
