Palworld addresses the description of “Pokémon with weapons”

Summary

PocketPair Communications Director does not like “Pokemon with weapons”, but admits that he has played a key role in Palworld's popularity.
Despite comparisons with Pokemon, the director showed that Palworld was actually inspired by ARK, with the aim of offering a more unique and significant experience.
He urges players to try Palworld for himself to see that it's much more than just a “weapon”.

PocketPair Communications Director acknowledged that the team does not like Palworld described as ”Pokémon with weapons. “Since their release, players were unable to avoid comparison between Palworld and PokémonBecause of the appearance of their creatures and the mechanic of monsters, although Poctear does not actually like comparison.

Palworld Amazing success in 2024 when the game reached more than 32 million players on different platforms by February 2025. In the game, players must fight, capture and use “friends” for various tasks such as basic construction, struggle and exploration. Although its mechanics and visual data may resemble elements widely popular Pokémon Franchise, Palworld Strew out with the introduction of firearms, allowing both friends and players to fight such weapons. These items made the community refer to Palworld like “Pokémon With the weapon “Label Pocketair is not too pleased.

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According to IGN, during the Game Developers Conference in March 2025 Palworld as simple Pokémon with weapons. As Bakley recalled, after the game was discovered in June 2021, the audience responded very positively – though so quickly “so quickly branded”. The director confessed that although the team made incredible efforts to “get rid of this”, the label is still delayed and the team is not “very glad”.

Palworld developer is not satisfied with the “Pokémon with weapons”

Later Buckle told Ign where inspiration for Palworld actually came showing that the studio tried to implement some ideas from Kaf. Buckley explained that one of the things that he liked was like Kaf He is strongly focusing on dinosaurs – and that was exactly what the studio wanted to do, but with a turn. The director is aimed at creating creatures with “greater personality, more abilities, greater uniqueness”. However, despite the true inspiration of the game, once the first Palworld The trailer was released, the reviews were immediately dubbed “Pokémon with a weapon. “

Although PocketPair is not satisfied with the description, Buckley confessed that the label helped to do Palworld Very popular. He also commented that he did not mind the fans who refer to the game, acknowledging that the team does not like when people actually believe that this is the whole game. He called the players to try this to see Palworld There is still a lot to offer. For those who have not yet played, the game is available on the PC, Xbox and PlayStation, and the door is still opened for a potential port to the future switch 2.