DOKEV PS5, PS4, XSX, XB1, PC

How to explain the K-pop sugar rush that is Dokev? On the most basic level it’s South Korea’s answer to Pokemon from Pearl Abyss, the developers behind the billion-dollar-grossing MMO Black Desert Online. This creature-collecting game, however, is going to be an open-world action adventure. And what a gorgeous world it looks like, where you play as a baby-faced tyke with gaudier fashion sense than the inklings of Splatoon.

Where Dokev differs from

Pokemon is that its battles against extra-dimensional beings are in real time as you summon powerful critters known as Dokebi, who can take the form of animals, plants or inanimate objects. Your own character can also get involved with appropriately kiddy weapons, including a bubble-gun, a giant mallet, and even bouncing around on a spacehopper.

But what has us most pumped here – besides the ridiculously catchy theme song – is how you can choose to traverse this world, whether it’s cycling around or riding a strange creature, switching from skateboard to Jet Set

Radio-style nitro-boosting rollerblades, and even being able to grapple thin air like in Monster Hunter Rise. It almost looks too good to be true, but count us hyped to find out more.