The guys from Moonlight Kids are making an interesting game with a “Pikmin Style” gameplay combined with the Metroidvanias backtracking, they also added to the mix a Luigi’s Mansion-like vacumm, a crafting system, and night exploration, all this into one game called The Wild at Hearts, a game that it’s trying to build a new subgenre call “Herd-like“

We're pulling from a lot of different things that aren't Pikmin-related," said Moonlight Kids creative lead Justin Baldwin. "We thought it'd be cool to incorporate those mechanics with building and crafting. There's not a lot like Pikmin out there. - Gamasutra's article 

On a Herd-like, you control an army of things from an in-game character point of view, they are trying to make their “Pikmin looking game ” into its own sub gender.

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