Working with budgets ‘ten times larger’ than Pocketpair, apparently
Palworld, the viralsurvival gamethatstirred up controversy(and found plenty of success) on the back of being a Pokémon-a-like - with added guns and factory labour, mind - is now due to become the inspiration for its own generation of clones, according to the head of its developers.
Pocketpair CEO andPalworlddirector Takuro Mizobe X-ed a screenshot of upcoming multiplayer sandbox-survival game Auroria, which appears to be, uh, Palworld in space. OrNo Man’s SkywithFall Guys-like bean-shaped alien companions you can go out and catch, if you’d prefer another X-meets-Y comparison.
“Tencent is already making a Palworld clone game!” Mizobe tweeted (viaAutomaton). “In China, many companies are simultaneously developing mobile clones of Palworld, and the budgets are in the 10 billion yen-range, 10 times larger than Palworld’s…
“Next year, we might see manyGenshin Impact-level creature (or bishojo) raising games… These are incredible times.”
テンセントが早速パルワールドのクローンゲーム作ってる！中国では各社が一斉にパルワールドのモバイル向けクローンを開発していて、しかも予算規模はパルワールドの10倍の100億円級・・・来年は原神クオリティのモンスター（または美少女）育成ゲームが大量にリリースされそう・・・すごい時代pic.twitter.com/RKqLz2RGOH
Meanwhile, Pocketpair arecontinuing to update and expand Palworldwhile working on something that could be described as“a Hollow Knight clone with added Dead Cells”. I look forward to Pocketpair claiming they invented the Metroidvania when that comes out.
