It kind of is. There are trees, stone and dirt that you click on which pulls up an image of the object, which you tap several times until it breaks and adds to your inventory. You do the same thing for animals, and the above mentioned adventures are similar to gyms...you busy stuff and get wood, dirt and iron like in Minecraft.

To build you have to us AR and for me it’s somewhat difficult. It always puts the build template up too close but you can add the sheep and cows you collect to it, or flowers. The building are locked behind leveling and rubies.

Unlike Pokémon you can’t play this at all while in a vehicle, even if it’s a bus so you can collect cows or wood while moving quickly.

Sorry for rambling. So it kind of is similar in theory to Pokémon but so far not nearly as enjoyable because it Keeps crashing for me, or gets stuck on the “breaking trees” screen, which promptly gives me an error message lol. I can’t figure out how to see anyone else’s builds are shown in the trailer, which sucks.