An open-world survival game in which creatures that look very much like Pokémon carry assault rifles and work in your factories, released into early access in January 2024 and selling around eight million copies in its first six days. The record's entry for 'Pokémon with guns', a phrase that did the marketing for a Tokyo studio nobody had heard of.
I remember a friend saying it would be dead in a month, and being right about the player count and wrong about the sales.
The record notes that the Steam concurrent count passed two million within a fortnight, which put a creature-collecting survival game above nearly everything except PUBG on the all-time chart.
A Discord server in January 2024 arguing whether the 'Pals' were traced from Pokémon models, while everyone in the argument was at that moment in a base full of them.
Correction: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company did sue, but for patent infringement in Japan in September 2024, not for copying designs. The lawsuit concerned mechanics such as throwing a capture device.
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