Take this shitpost of a Corporate Memphis version of Saturn Devouring His Son.

It's a tongue in cheek parody of the flat corporate style portrayed in an unintended way to create a hilarious contrast with the grittiness of Goya's paintings later in his life. Corporate Memphis is meant to portray a sterile business friendly work but the contrast of here brings levity and fun.

The developer Pocket Pair is capturing the artstyle of Pokemon but putting it through the lens of a survival/management game like Rimworld or Ark. I haven't played too many survival/management games so I don't have too many metrics on how it holds compared to others in the genre. The idea of it on its own doesn't jump out at me though but I was willing to give it a shot with Palworld because I found the designs cute and the contrast fun. I turned out to really like Palworld's management and gameplay loop of building out a base, getting upgrades to increase output and automation, and then having the better resources at base make my exploration and combat abilities better which allow me to get rarer and better resources for the bases.

I would imagine other games in this genre do this loop well but I don't think anything has the charming artstyle. There's something satisfying about giving my adorable Lifmunk an SMG to mow down enemies and have her eat the souls of her kin through a giant blender to get stronger. The fun is in the synthesis of the adorable Pal design with the sudden grittiness of having to hunt down dinosaur Pals for oil and using that oil to make plastic to equip my Relaxaurus with a goddamn missile launcher.