As Palworld fails to escape Pokemon comparisons following new card game announcement, one dev agrees some folks are being a bit dramatic

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The Palworld Official Card Game announcement hasn't gone down well with everyone

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Palworld designer and Pocketpair Publishing manager John 'Bucky' Buckley agrees that folks might be overreacting slightly to the newly announced Palworld Official Card Game amid the expected Pokemon comparisons and criticisms.

The Palworld Official Card Game was announced earlier this week – it's a physical trading card game that'll be launching in July – and while reactions appear to be largely positive, Bucky has already been firing back at some of the haters emerging online following the news. "At this point if you're still ranting about a game you supposedly don't like after two years then I'm thinking it's a you problem now… Go play something else," he previously wrote.

Pokemon certainly didn't invent the idea of trading card games, and there are plenty of others out there with ties to video games – there's the Final Fantasy TCG and the Digimon Card Game just to name a couple. Admittedly, it was somewhat inevitable that Palworld would find itself under further scrutiny given how the survival game was unofficially dubbed "Pokemon with guns" by so many, and – again – not to mention the lawsuit filed by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company alleging patent infringement with certain in-game mechanics.

For now, we'll just have to wait and see if the Palworld Official Card Game takes off – it's set to launch on July 30 this year.

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Catherine Lewis
Catherine Lewis
Deputy News Editor

I'm GamesRadar+'s Deputy News Editor, working alongside the rest of the news team to deliver cool gaming stories that we love. After spending more hours than I can count filling The University of Sheffield's student newspaper with Pokemon and indie game content, and picking up a degree in Journalism Studies, I started my career at GAMINGbible where I worked as a journalist for over a year and a half. I then became TechRadar Gaming's news writer, where I sourced stories and wrote about all sorts of intriguing topics. In my spare time, you're sure to find me on my Nintendo Switch or PS5 playing through story-driven RPGs like Xenoblade Chronicles and Persona 5 Royal, nuzlocking old Pokemon games, or going for a Victory Royale in Fortnite.

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