Pokémon Pokopia has truly taken over the world, with indie developers now yearning for a slice of the creature collecting pie.
If you thought that Palworld was a blatant rip off of Pokémon’s formula, you’re not going to believe what I have to show you today.
Pickmon has surfaced on PC storefront Steam, and it’s a lawsuit just waiting to happen.
Pickmon Borrows Elements From Pokémon, Zelda, And Overwatch
Developed by a team called PocketGame, Pickmon is billed as a “multiplayer open-world survival crafter” where players will team up with their Pickmon to battle.
As is the case in Palworld, there’s also some base building elements at play here too as you’ll need to both farm and “build industrial empires”.
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The game is billed as coming to PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch albeit at an unspecified date.
Personally, I can’t see it ever coming to light.
Opting for a name like Pickmon in the creature collecting category is certainly quite a choice.
There’s also some very familiar looking creature designs. One small orange being featured in a Steam screenshot looks a lot like a Pikachu and Pawmi hybrid.
In another, you can see a black and red creature transformed into a motorcycle, much like Pokémon’s Koraidon.
There’s also a blue creature that doesn’t look all that different to Lapras, a blue penguin that looks like Piplup, and an orange dragon that hasn’t even attempted to distinguish itself from Charizard.
We also can’t overlook that the main playable character is, for whatever reason, a carbon copy of Link from The Legend of Zelda.
Pickmon’s protagonist is essentially Link in his Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom get-up. Again, it’s not subtle.
On Reddit, users noticed that there’s also a rip off of Overwatch thrown in too with Pickmon featuring a version of the game’s Roadhog.
I’m struggling to see how this game can possibly be real. Surely there are no developers on Earth who actually think they could get away with this?
Then again, Light of Motiram surfaced thinking no one would notice the fact that it was a clear copy of Horizon. Sony soon put a stop to that.
Whether this project is AI ragebait or real, I have no doubt that Nintendo will nuke it at the earliest possible opportunity.
Nintendo didn’t hold back in going after Palworld and at least that game attempted to bring some originality into the mix. Pickmon isn’t doing that.
I don’t know about you but I’m tired of seeing so many of these types of rips actually making their way onto gaming storefronts. It makes you wonder how lax the vetting process is.
PocketGame doesn’t appear to have developed any games before, although publisher NETWORKGO has one credit to its name. That’s for 2023 open craft survival title Hainya World.
You’re free to wishlist Pickmon, but I don’t think it’ll hang around on Steam for very long.