A newly listed Steam game known as Pickmon blends Pokemon-style creature amassing with open-world survival and crafting techniques harking back to Palworld.
The retailer web page lists PocketGame and NetworkGo because the game’s developer and writer, respectively, and describes a world stuffed with collectible creatures generally known as Pickmon.
While the previous has no different game credit on Valve’s storefront, NetworkGo developed and revealed Hainya World in 2023, which took related apparent inspiration from current video games, specifically Maple Story and Minecraft.
Pickmon combines creature amassing with open-world survival
According to Pikmon’s Steam page, gamers discover a big continent populated by creatures, which could be captured utilizing particular playing cards and then utilized in fight whereas touring throughout the game’s world.
Maps span a number of environments together with jungles, deserts, tundra, and volcanoes, with gamers tasked with uncovering the secrets and techniques of an historical civilization whereas stopping a mysterious group working within the area.
Alongside its creature-collecting techniques, gamers can collect sources, construct houses and farms, and assemble automated factories that produce weapons, instruments, and different tools wanted to outlive.
If that sounds concurrently harking back to Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and Palworld to you, you’re not alone. Designs clearly impressed by Pikachu and Link from The Legend of Zelda are current in preview screenshots. There’s even one character who seems to be like Roadhog from Blizzard’s Overwatch.
Considering Nintendo’s repute for being litigious, together with going after Palworld for its similarities to Pokemon, it’ll be attention-grabbing to see if the corporate decides to pursue authorized motion towards this newcomer.
Pickmon doesn’t but have a launch date.
