{"id":338362,"date":"2025-08-12T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338362\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:54:13","slug":"random-oh-jeez-now-palworld-has-its-own-rip-off-on-the-switch-eshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/338362\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Oh Jeez, Now Palworld Has Its Own Rip-Off On The Switch eShop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Palland 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b14bc65cf2564\/palland-1.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/palland-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Palland 1\"\/><\/a>Image: BoggySoft<\/p>\n<p>Developer Pocketpair is still very much <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/05\/palworld-dev-announces-disappointing-game-changes-resulting-from-nintendos-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the midst of a lawsuit<\/a> from Nintendo over its smash-hit title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/palworld\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palworld<\/a>, but it may have another issue on its hands.<\/p>\n<p>As covered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/palworld-ripoff-palland-on-nintendo-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gamer<\/a>, a new title by the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/palland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palland<\/a> is now available via the Switch eShop, and everything from its basic description to its screenshots indicate that it&#8217;s a blatant rip-off of Palworld. Does that also make it a rip-off of <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong>..? Well, Nintendo would probably say so, yes. We&#8217;re not so sure about Pocketpair.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by BoggySoft (lovely), Palland was released on <strong>31st July 2025<\/strong> yet has already been heavily discounted by 60% to a paltry <strong>\u00a33.99 \/ $5.99<\/strong>. Just goes to show how much faith BoggySoft has in its product, huh?<\/p>\n<p>We should also point out that the screenshots included on the eShop page (which you can view below) don&#8217;t appear to be indicative of the actual experience. If you check out gameplay videos on YouTube from channels like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UebFsxkHwM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Hall<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eW4CCT5C7hQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Buoy Games<\/a>, you can see that the visuals aren&#8217;t even remotely comparable. Where&#8217;s all the grass?! It&#8217;s almost on par with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scarlet and Violet<\/a>, for goodness&#8217; sake (joking &#8211; gosh).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s interesting (and funny) that the game responsible for Nintendo&#8217;s recent lawsuit against Pocketpair now has its own rip-off \u2013 on the Switch, no less! Guffaw.<\/p>\n<p>Images: BoggySoft<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re fascinated to see whether Pocketpair takes any action against BoggySoft and Palland while it&#8217;s still knee-deep in its own legal battle against Nintendo. Chances are it probably won&#8217;t, but who knows.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of Palland on the Switch eShop? Are you morbidly curious to try it out for yourself? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-download-software\/Palland-2885678.html\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-download-software\/Palland-2885678.html\" target=\"_blank\">nintendo.com<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/palworld-ripoff-palland-on-nintendo-switch\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/palworld-ripoff-palland-on-nintendo-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\">thegamer.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1743559691_246_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ollie Reynolds\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Life\u2019s resident horror fanatic, when he\u2019s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: BoggySoft Developer Pocketpair is still very much in the midst of a lawsuit from Nintendo over its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[123,615,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-338362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-nintendo-switch","9":"tag-switch-eshop","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115015664624262830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}