Steam listing apes Pokémon, Zelda and Overwatch in Pickmon

A new Steam listing for Pickmon makes its intentions clear from the name: the game borrows heavily from familiar creature designs and other franchises. Where Palworld stitched together Pokémon-like parts, Pickmon leans into outright mimicry, showing creatures that look like Pikachu with dyed eyebrows and other small changes.

Trailers and screenshots amplify the resemblance. Key art includes a Link-like character in Breath of the Wild-style garb riding a Charizard analogue while wielding a submachine gun, a tower topped with an aetheryte-like crystal, and creatures that sit midway between Palworld’s Anubis and Lucario.

The listing even leans on knockoffs of Overwatch’s Roadhog and other obvious inspirations. Those parallels are unlikely to meet a legal threshold for intellectual property infringement. Nintendo’s Palworld lawsuit, after all, targeted patents related to a specific implementation of catching monsters in throwable orbs rather than character design.

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