These "Pals" Resemble Pokémon, right?

[Daredevil]

Is it just me or the animals in this game look exactly like specific Pokémons?

[Siozen]

Its just you.

[xDDD]

It's just you. They all look legally-distinct to me, your honor.

[Zheppon]

nah they look more like a digimon

[Wille84FIN]

Most definitely just you.

[Dewit]

Just you man. Also I'm totally snagging the fire fox one that looks like Vulpix

[Jenkem Junkie]

I thought they were Magic the Gathering creatures.

[Daredevil]

Originally posted by Siozen:

Its just you.

Come on dude

Originally posted by :D:

It's just you. They all look legally-distinct to me, your honor.

I am not trying to stir anything legally, but like asking casually, even have same colors that of Pokémon, like that Pikachu looking one is Yellow.

[Lufia]

With the amount of Pokemon that already exist, there are some that look like Pokemon in every game that contains these types of monsters.

[Aerugo]

It's definitely and positively, only you.

[Daredevil]

Don't start giving me Jesters though, I am already embarrassed as it is that not even one single person feels the same.

Maybe I'm Blind as a Bat after all...

[Wrecki]

What is "pokemon"? Some kind of Palworld ripoff game?

[Jarek has quit gaming]

They are based on the Nexomon series.

[RekoHart]

After nearly 20 years of Pokemon and over 1000 different types (not sure if that counts the alohan and galigan sub types), its going to be hard for developers in the same genre to make monsters that all don't look anything like any Pokemon out there.

Game Freak ran out of ideas years ago.

[Mr.Big]

A lot of them are VERY close frankly. a lot of them can be forgiven as being a similar archetype, but comparisons like Lovander vs. Salazzle or Boltmane vs. Luxray are too close to be coincidence.

Does this bother me? not really, it's very common for games to be "inspired" by other games. Look at this comparison between Pokemon and Dragon quest (A series whom the lead designer of Pokemon was a massive fan) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ec_-omLWoAAfhaF.jpg:large

My real concern is that enough designs are similar to a specific pokemon, and Japan's copyright laws are very restrictive, so there is a possibility they could get litigated by Nintendo, which would kill the game. Games like TemTem went out of their way to AVOID makes ANY designs too close to pokemon, whereas Palworld did not.

[Baghdad_Bob]

There are no pokemon in this game, they have not entered the game nor will they reach it.