After selling over 15 million copies in its first month, the mania around Palworld has cooled a bit. But deep-pocketed competitors have taken notice of the “Pokémon With Guns” survival crafting sim’s overnight success and are trying to copy it, according to the head of the studio behind the game. “Tencent is already making a Palworld clone game!” PocketPair CEO Takuro Mizobe recently tweeted,” according to a translation by Automaton. He seemed happy about it.
” When Palworld first blew up it was accused of copying Game Freak’s Pokémon games, with some fans noting clear similarities between the creature designs in both games, and some internet sleuths even alleging that this overlap could be traced even more deeply into the game’s construction. “We make our games very seriously,” Mizobe said at the time. “And we have absolutely no intention of infringing upon the intellectual property of other companies.