Why Palworld is More Like ARK than Pokemon

Palworld is definitely early access, but it's well developed enough to have it's bugs and crashes forgiven. It's survival-Pokemon for the gamer that doesn't care much for either. Crafting and building out your base are easy enough with your various Pals automating much of the necessary work, making that aspect feel much less tedious. Collecting Pals feels like it's there for much more than just to have and battle them. Their utility has a wide range, making this part fairly interesting to explore. The action and adventure aspects are relatively fun when the wide array of abilities from your Pals are put to the test. We've seen the aspects of these game be done before, individually, in better ways, but the mix of all these having come together is what makes Palworld work, especially for some who has no interest in Pokemon and limited interest in survival games.