Palworld Dev Claps Back: Stop Comparing Palfarm to Pokemon Pokopia — Pocketpair Isn't Making Games in a Week

Pocketpair announced a new cozy multiplayer life sim called Palfarm, and the internet immediately started comparing it to Pokopia, that brand-new Pokemon offshoot that just got revealed less than two weeks ago. The timing here matters, and it pretty much undercuts the hot-take that one copied the other.

The timeline is the whole story

Palfarm was unveiled yesterday. Pokopia only popped up in the last couple of weeks. Pocketpair says Palfarm has been cooking for over a year. So unless someone at the studio is secretly Doctor Strange, the similarities are timing noise, not evidence of a rush-job clone.

What Pocketpair is (patiently) trying to say

Global community manager John 'Bucky' Buckley jumped on social media to pour water on the conspiracy talk. He says they expected some silliness and a bit of anger around the announcement, but he was still surprised by how many people think the team is made of wizard-level devs who can whip up a full game in a week. His phrasing about the tinfoil hats being out was... not subtle.

'We are both a slop company and capable of making entire games in one week, it seems.'

He also called it a bit of poetic irony that the folks most mad at Pocketpair are the same ones insisting the studio built an entire game in a week. His joke: Schrödinger's Pocketpair. (Yep, inside baseball, but you get the point.)

Fans chimed in, and some of them actually make sense

Replies leaned supportive, including one blunt take: people calling Palfarm slop while praising Pokopia probably shouldn't be taken seriously. Another fan argued the two games are clearly pulling from different places. That tracks based on what we have seen so far:

• Pokopia vibes: Animal Crossing plus a dash of Minecraft/Dragon Quest Builders
• Palfarm vibes: Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, Stardew Valley

None of that is official from either developer, but if you have eyes, Pokopia reads Animal Crossing: New Horizons, while Palfarm feels closer to Stardew with a bigger push on farming and co-op life-sim stuff.

Meanwhile at Pocketpair HQ

Palfarm is not the only thing on their plate. Palworld 1.0 is due next year, so expect that to heat up. Also, in the most internet crossover sentence imaginable: after Terraria, the Palworld devs are teaming up with another indie legend, the FPS Ultrakill. As the Ultrakill crowd likes to say: 'Blood is fuel. Hell is full.'

Bottom line: the Palfarm vs. Pokopia discourse is mostly timing weirdness and genre overlap. Come on — nobody ships an entire farming sim in a week.