Why Paleo Pines Needs to ‘Steal’ a Common Pokemon Feature

Paleo Pines is a dinosaur farm sim game with creature-collecting elements, where players can befriend dinosaurs in the wild, invite them to live on their ranch, and utilize their unique abilities to help with farming and ranching activities. However, dinosaurs don’t fight each other as Pokemon do, and the game emphasizes they don’t belong to the player, with their ability to return to the wild at any time if they aren’t kept happy. That said, although there are some existing similarities with Pokemon like rare species to discover, there are more elements from creature-collecting games like Pokemon that Paleo Pines could lean into to enhance its dinosaur offering and dino-documenting mechanics.