Earlier this week, developer PocketGame announced that it was changing the name of its survival-crafting and creature-collecting game Pickmon to Pickmos. The game bears more than a passing resemblance to Palworld and Pokemon, and amidst heavy criticism of how flagrantly it appears to copy the homework of those games, its publisher, Networkgo, has decided to pull Pickmos from Steam.
In a Steam update, Networkgo explained that it’ll be taking a more active hand in the development of Pickmos. “We’ve heard your feedback regarding the removal of our Steam store page and want to clear things up,” the publisher wrote. “Networkgo has officially intervened in the development of Pickmos. We will be supervising the PocketGame team from a player’s perspective to ensure the game keeps getting better.”
Ever since it was first revealed last month, Pickmos has been accused of being an off-brand Pokemon clone. Claims of PocketGame stealing “Fakemon” designs from Pokemon fan artists to use in the game haven’t helped its cause, and its reasoning for changing a single letter of the game title to “better align” with its brand identity has been met with skepticism.
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