{"id":1554716,"date":"2026-04-16T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Uw8ntUj97De8SmcJUY2zKo"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:25:09","slug":"shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless Palworld imitator Pickmos removed from Steam after publisher &#8216;officially intervenes&#8217; in development: &#8216;We will be supervising the Pickmos team&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Just a couple days after Palworld imitator Pickmon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/temu-tier-palworld-imitator-pickmon-changes-a-single-title-letter-to-better-align-with-our-brand-identity-and-definitely-not-for-any-other-reason-guys-honest\/\">changed its title to Pickmos<\/a> &#8220;to better align with our brand identity,&#8221; the whole thing has been removed from Steam, and it sounds like developer PocketGame may have had its wrist slightly slapped in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the apparent rebuke comes from NetworkGo, the publisher of Pickmos, who in a message on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PickMon_EN\/status\/2044732047709868392\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> rather oddly appeared to suggest that this whole mess is PocketGames&#8217; fault. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1895px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:123.54%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"LmqfdQ5VwS86npYRNDChiB\" name=\"pick1\" alt=\"Hello players, this is the publisher, Networkgo. We\u2019ve heard your feedback regarding the removal of our Steam store page and want to clear things up. Networkgo has officially intervened in the development of PocketGame. We will be supervising the Pickmos team from a player\u2019s perspective to ensure the game keeps getting better. Thank you for your support.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1895\" height=\"2341\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: PocketGame\/NetworkGo (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve heard your feedback regarding the removal of our Steam store page and want to clear things up,&#8221; the publisher wrote. &#8220;Networkgo has officially intervened in the development of PocketGame. We will be supervising the Pickmos team from a player\u2019s perspective to ensure the game keeps getting better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Confusingly, a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PickMon_EN\/status\/2044747691159433562\" target=\"_blank\">message<\/a> that appeared to come from PocketGame, the developer of Pickmos, was posted on the same X account just prior to the NetworkGo intervention announcement, also indicating that NetworkGo has assumed creative control: &#8220;We are revising the game to ensure a controversy-free experience. It will be re-released once our publisher gives the final approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pickmos has indeed been controversial. PC Gamer&#8217;s Lincoln Carpenter described it as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/steam-game-listing-achieves-knockoff-singularity-by-aping-pokemon-zelda-and-even-overwatch-designs-with-a-shamelessness-palworld-could-only-dream-of\/\">shameless<\/a>&#8221; in its imitation of Pok\u00e9mon, saying that Palworld\u2014literally the target of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/palworld-developer-reports-nintendos-suing-over-3-pokemon-patents-for-only-usd66-000-in-damages-but-a-videogame-ip-lawyer-says-fighting-the-lawsuit-could-mean-burning-millions-of-dollars\/\">Nintendo lawsuit<\/a>\u2014&#8221;feels like a paragon of creative integrity&#8221; by comparison. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pickmon hasn&#8217;t filed the serial number off of Pok\u00e9mon\u2014it&#8217;s just crossed it out with crayon,&#8221; Lincoln wrote. &#8220;And it didn&#8217;t stop there: In its trailers and screenshots, Pickmon is also copying homework from the Legend of Zelda, Overwatch, and even Palworld itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of others shared this assessment, and last week the dev team took steps to address the problem by, as mentioned, changing a single letter of the game&#8217;s title\u2014although it said the creatures in the game would still collectively be known as Pickmon, because sure, why not.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction to that change was about what you&#8217;d expect\u2014astonishment and disbelief at what Lincoln called, beautifully, &#8220;the Olympian ballsiness of its visual knockoffery&#8221;\u2014and the reaction <em>to<\/em> the reaction actually had me wondering if the whole thing was a bit.<\/p>\n<p>In response to allegations that Pickmon stole work from a fan artist, the studio asked &#8220;Mr. Fakemon&#8221;\u2014fakemon being the name of a subreddit dedicated to fake Pok\u00e9mon created by fans\u2014&#8221;to provide proof of the trademark rights for the designs in question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:68.13%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Acb2tZNeHp8MfMRrBwCbLC\" name=\"pick2\" alt=\"Could you please ask Mr. Fakemon to provide proof of the trademark rights for the designs in question? Our designs are handled by a professional team that manages all trademark filings. Our team has searched the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) database and found no record of Mr. Fakemon's company holding trademarks for the creatures shown in your images. If there are any legitimate concerns, our legal counsel will coordinate with our Art Director to make the necessary adjustments.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team-1.jpg' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: PocketGame\/NetworkGo (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just the language barrier, or maybe the poor guy manning the Pickmos socials has somehow never heard of Pok\u00e9mon or Overwatch, but even if that&#8217;s true this one is very funny to me. It&#8217;s the sort of answer I&#8217;d give long-suffering PC Gamer editorial director Tim Clark if he told me I&#8217;d screwed something up in a massive and very public way.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will discuss this with our Art Director immediately.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2043558458319126995\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Part of me thinks this &#8220;publisher taking over&#8221; announcement is simple misdirection: Defusing the situation by claiming that a group of unsupervised ne&#8217;er-do-wells was causing trouble, but now the adults are in the room and everything&#8217;s going to be fine. But those earlier X posts make me wonder if maybe this really was just a group of unsupervised ne&#8217;er-do-wells causing trouble, and the adults have finally decided that they don&#8217;t need the legal headaches this thing is so clearly inviting.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the underlying cause, you can see evidence of the existence of Pickmos on <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/4358270\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB<\/a>, but otherwise, it&#8217;s gone. Whether it ever actually comes back, we will wait and see.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"5ad71f19-c318-4e05-9ef2-b979525874c1\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"5ad71f19-c318-4e05-9ef2-b979525874c1\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/survival-crafting\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple days after Palworld imitator Pickmon changed its title to Pickmos &#8220;to better align with our brand identity,&#8221; the whole thing has been removed from Steam, and it sounds like developer PocketGame may have had its wrist slightly slapped in the process. Ironically, the apparent rebuke comes from NetworkGo, the publisher of Pickmos, who in a message on X rather oddly appeared to suggest that this whole mess is PocketGames&#8217; fault. (Image credit: PocketGame\/NetworkGo (Twitter)) &#8220;We\u2019ve heard your feedback regarding the removal of our Steam store page and want to clear things up,&#8221; the publisher wrote. &#8220;Networkgo has officially intervened in the development of PocketGame. We will be supervising the Pickmos team from a player\u2019s perspective to ensure the game keeps getting better.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/shameless-palworld-imitator-pickmos-removed-from-steam-after-publisher-officially-intervenes-in-development-we-will-be-supervising-the-pickmos-team\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1554717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,9395],"class_list":["post-1554716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-survival-crafting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shameless Palworld imitator Pickmos removed from Steam after publisher &#039;officially intervenes&#039; 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