If you play it you’ll see. I just tried it out yesterday and it’s basically combined elements from Pokemon (creature collection & design style), Minecraft (crafting, resource collection), Slime Rancher (base building, using the “Pals” as workers), Zelda (hot/cold mechanics, climbing, combat, weapon durability), and a bunch of other elements from other games like a tech tree, recipes,
It’s somehow been able to do that in a really cohesive end product. It’s definitely a mish-mash, and the cutesy pals definitely do look like pokemon characters, but it somehow just works.
brings back memories of studying in college while listening to 128k mp3’s on my Sony CLIE with a massive 64mb memory stick.