Palworld’s mixture of open-world survival, supply chain management, and monster wrangling may have taken the internet by storm. But, for all the similarities between its ensemble of critters and those found in Pokémon, the game doesn’t follow in developer Game Freak’s footsteps when it comes to how it actually plays. At its heart, Palworld is a survival game.
In an interview on the subject, the CEO of Palworld developer Pocketpair claimed that the game was designed to feel “completely different” from Pokémon. “I would even say that Palworld is a lot more similar to Ark: Survival Evolved in terms of game mechanics,” he added.
