Two years on from Palworld's release, Pokemon may have a reason to join forces with the game that was once accused of copying the designs of its iconic creatures. An upcoming open-world monster-hunting game called Pickmon has appeared out of nowhere on Steam, complete with a pretty in-depth trailer, and it's being accused of combining designs from Pokemon and Palworld to claim them as its own.
Pickmon is an open-world survival crafter according to its description on Steam, and that open world is filled with monsters that you'll be tasked with catching. You won't use balls or spheres to catch them, though. Instead, you seem to catch Pickmon's monsters using cards.
Those monsters can then be used to battle one another, a core premise in mainline Pokemon games, and to help you craft, the main thing that sets Palworld apart from those mainline Pokemon games. Surprisingly, none of that is what has Pokemon and Palworld fans up in arms. It's the designs of Pickmon's monsters that have sparked copycat accusations.
We don't know what any of Pickmon's monsters are called yet. However, as highlighted by Twitter user TheTeshTube, the orange monster flying overhead in Pickmon's keyart...
