Pickmon, the Palworld, and the Pokémon-like creature collecting game have been accused of stealing from fan artists.
On Monday, March 9, Pickmon, an open-world survival creature-collecting game where instead of balls, you use cards to capture, appeared on Steam, along with a few screenshots, a brief description of the game and its features, and a relatively long two-minute eleven-second trailer.
Following that, just like what happened with Palworld, Pickmon was called out by the Pokémon community, and to no one's surprise, the Palworld community too, as Pickmon looks more like the latter, to an extent, that you can call it an asset flip.
And while all of this was going on, Pokémon fan artists accused Pickmon developers, PocketGame, of allegedly stealing creature designs from fan art.
On X (formerly Twitter), the Concept Artist and Illustrator RJ Palmer pointed out that Pickmon was not only stealing from the "original games" but was also "ripping off fan designs."
Not content to just steal from the real deal, this game is also ripping off fan designs https://t.co/L5Kl5vxFw6 pic.twitter.com/3gr6FJPVES
— RJ Palmer (@arvalis) March 9, 2026
Following that, the artist jayjay_mons accused Pickmon devs of stealing his Mega Ceruledge fan art. He said, "No, it’s literally my fan design for Mega Ceruledge stolen right there."
No, it's literally my fan design for Mega Ceruledge stolen right there https://t.co/bIPtFt0aca pic.twitter.com/F59xmr37vl
— jayjay_mons (@pokejayjay) March 9, 2026
Ahead of all the accusations, Pickmon developer PocketGame was already under fire from the gaming community as their game was clearly not "inspired" by games like Pokémon, Palworld, or such creature-collecting games, but a clear copy.
In fact, some players even called them out for their studio's name being similar to Palworld's developers, PocketPair. While others pointed out that they changed the creature-collecting mechanic from balls to cards just to avoid legal issues.
So far, PocketGame or the Pickmon's publisher, NetworkGo have not yet responded to the allegations. And while we are waiting for an official response from them, the gaming community is confident that the infamous Pokémon legal team might have already started their work.