
A masterclass in action design, Palworld delivers an unforgettable experience from start to finish.
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Verdict
94%
Steam
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (94% positive from 415K reviews)
Active community with 30,571 concurrent players
Rich open world to explore
Engaging multiplayer/co-op experience
Limited professional critic coverage
Palworld is an upcoming action-adventure, survival, and monster-taming game created and published by Japanese developer Pocketpair. The game is set in an open world populated with animal-like creatures called "Pals", which players can battle and capture to use for base building, traversal, and combat. Players may also assign the Pals to bases where they will automatically complete tasks for the player. Palworld can be played either solo or online with up to 32 players on one server. It was announced in 2021 and launched through early access for Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in January 2024, and for the PlayStation 5 in September 2024.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 8h ago
Palworld gives you options ... whether you die and lose your items or not; how much daylight and night you want; gives you many options to breed pals and; most of all since I'm an elderly and had a stoke, it allows the option to make the fight less difficult.
This review will probably go unread. It probably won't say anything that hasn't been said a thousand times. But I'm just gonna leave one here just to add another number to the counter to praise the glory of Pocketpair and implore you to give it a try. If anything, to give GameFreak and Nintendo the finger. Growing up with Pokemon as a kid. Running home right after school every day in hopes to catch the last 15 minutes of the show. Linking up our gameboys to trade Pokemon during lunch and recess. Those memories are forever ingrained in me. As I grew up, I've always hoped Pokemon would grow up with me, but Nintendo and GameFreak had other ideas. They still think we're no better than the kids they market their games to. But I'm sorry. Enough is enough. How lazy can you be when a $7M game made by a small studio surpassed everything you've ever done in the last 30 years? What is your fkn excuse? Is Palworld perfect? Hell no. There's still some glitches here and there. Things can act whonky sometimes. But PocketPair had a vision and chased it. Nintendo and GameFreak lost that decades ago. Their only vision now is just greed, and they'll treat you like you're that innocent, naive child back in 1996. So all that Nintendo/GameFreak bashing makes this game great? No. But at this point, we KNOW this game is great. $30 is already a steal for what you are getting. $20 just makes it a no brainer. Support PocketPair. They listened to us. They stuck to their guns to shame the ♥♥♥♥ out of Nintendo. Now the flood gates of other creature capture games are in the line up, and it's all thanks to this one quirky game where you can capture a fkn rocket dragon and shoot an arsenal of guns on the back of to fight a god whale. Keep it up PocketPair. May you never stray down the path of Nintendo/GameFreak, and you will always get my $$ and support for whatever madness you concoct.
Imagine the Elden Ring map, Pokemon Legends Arceus gameplay, and the ARK Survival Evolved progression system. Palworld is the greatest survival sandbox game of all time.
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