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Anna Koselke

With the Palworld lawsuit rumbling on in the background, the Nintendo Switch welcomes "Palland" – a survival game that looks a whole lot like Pocketpair's creature collector

Palworld screenshot showing a young woman with tied-back red hair petting her Pal, a large white and purple Xenogard.

As The Pokemon Company continues its legal battle with Palworld, a new survival game that amusingly looks a whole lot like Pocketpair's creature collector has quietly come to light: Palland.

Nearly a year ago now, the Nintendo-owned Pokemon Company filed a lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair for patent infringement. Although it's ongoing currently, the lawsuit has resulted in various changes on Pocketpair's behalf in Palworld, from alterations to the Pal Sphere mechanics so that they no longer resemble Pokeballs as closely to "yet another compromise" with tweaks for the in-game gliding system.

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