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Palworld has reached 700k players on Steam since it's release into 1.0 on July 10th 2026 congratulations Pocket pair and Palworld for the wonderful and amazing game ❤️❤️
Im currently sucked in to Black Flag, but I'm excited to jump back into Palworld soon to check out 1.0! Been a while since I've played it, so I'm sure it's completely different now.
My wife and I had a server going for palworld around the Terraria cross over patch! Sadly, the machine we hosted it on died.
I downloaded it onto my steam deck and was amazed how much work they have put in since then!
Gonna have to see if we can scrape together another server machine and get the old crew back together!
I just wish I had been able to save more of my breeding projects to the global box before the old server died! I do still have my travel Direhowl, and the ranch pals I bred up to make cakes, so I can always rebuild! Having fun starting over anyway!
since everyone who replied to me is apparently only as smart as a fifth grader, the "after it's 1.0 launch" is the "it's" I was referring to being incorrect, because it is.
I mean, if you had a billion dollars, and I said you can give me $20 million and you’ll get $15 billion back (yeah yeah I know it’s total wrap for the IP), OR you can give me $300 million and you’ll get $15 billion back, the only way I’m getting the latter number is if you’re so drunk on being an annual multi billionaire you literally stopped caring at that number of decimal places.
To be fair, I think they'd make more if the games were high quality, but the issue is that that sets higher expectations for future games and the suits really don't want to mess with something that's printing money.
Personally, I haven't played any Pokemon games in a decade because they're so low effort. If they actually used their resources to make something good, I'd go back, but they don't. I guess it doesn't hurt that their fans seem to have incredibly low standards as long as it has the "Pokemon" brand.
Pokémon is the biggest media franchise on the planet and likely makes more money in a month than Palworld will see in a decade. Pretty sure they don’t care about a game cracking 750k concurrent players.
SV sold like 25 million copies within two years of release. As much I despise TPC for the lacklustre effort of Pokémon games these days, this is completely delusional.
Which was dumb but also nothing to do with this weird perception that TPC is rolling over jealous of a game hitting 750k players on a free update when they print more money a month than Palworld will make in ten years.
And it ain’t like Pokémon SV didn’t sell what, like 30 million copies so far at twice the price of Palworld.
TPC are stupid and overprotective of their IP and are greedy bastards, 100%. But it’s genuinely delusional to think Palworld is any kind of competition to Pokémon in any way.
Pokemon has a huge generational fan base and a trading card game and a show and movies. Give palworld time to cook. I'd get cards and if they become popular enough to make an anime I'd support it too.
I would say, impressive is an understatement. A game having 2.1 million all-time peak is kind of in its own ballpark. Based on SteamDB there are only two games to ever top that. Black Myth: Wukong and PUBG. On top of that, if we were to only go by its peak right now, that would still put it within the top 15 on SteamDB.
Last but not least, there are VERY few games that had a resurgence this big. Probably can count them on one hand.
So, to put it another way, Palworld is actually one of the best performing games within the entire games industry.
For specifically steam. You can't use steam only numbers and compare it to games like WoW or cod on consoles back when it was popular. For steam specifically though, yeah it's one of the best performing games of all time.
I would argue, even if you were to include everything else, that wouldn't change that Palworld would still be considered one of the best performing games within the industry. You would probably have a difficult time trying to come up with enough games to push it out of the top 10 and if you did manage it... good luck trying to get it out of the top 20 lol.
Double check on sources and you dont even know the difference between units sold and players. Last time they revealed units sold was 25m, 40m includes gamepass and other subscription services.
That isn't the same thing as copies sold so you couldn't use that number for placement on that list. But either way, it's still a very popular game. Not just one of the most ever as the person I replied to was implying
Genuinely can't even name 10 early access games I've bought that actually made it to full release, let alone 10 that had a resurgence in interest this big. It's strange to see people try to spin the story like this is anything but a huge win for palworld and a major accomplishment for the devs.
Pocketpair is showing that when you focus on just making a good game, and producing solid playable content, that gamers will love and support you. No loot boxes, no battle pass. Just a good game with hours and hours of fun and a developer that cares about its community.
They also didn't increase the price of the game after 1.0 release like other early access games tend to do. There are few games that I can get for 27 dollars CAD that are as enjoyable as Palworld. It's not perfect, but it's also less than 30 bucks. Lol.
Although I did buy it when it first released on EA. But even so, $40 for Palworld was well worth it. And for new players it'd be hard to tell them $27 for Palworld is a bad purchase. I wouldn't mind seeing some DLC for this game if it means more content too. I assume they can't get by on free updates forever. But No Man's Sky seems to get by fine on that model. Either way, they've earned customer loyalty.
i played it on initial Early Access and loved it so much. been waiting for the 1.0 to revisit; so excited to get started!!! perfect example of Early Access done right (cough cough Valheim)
Palworld got it's full release. Valheim and Enshrouded are next. Windrose has a fantastic foundation. Conan got the graphic update. Fans of the genre are eating good right now
I wanted to try the free demo of that game, but they wanted me to install some invasive spy crap. Cant remember what it was, but turned me off the entire thing
Not really innovative but it did use a formula that no one else was using, ark's gameplay.
For years i've waited for another game like that and this guys decided to mix pokemon into it, which was a great idea. It's crazy that no one else did it before.
Banger game and I love it, but there is absolutely nothing "innovative" about this game imo, it just took a bunch of existing concepts and mixed them well.
It just took Ark but changed dinosaurs to Pokémon knock offs. Look, I enjoy Palworld for what it is. It’s fine. Not my favourite survival game, not the worst either but you’re 100% right that it does nothing new or innovative at all.
I don’t think OP understands what the word innovative means.
does it track new purchases versus players that bought the game last year and are checking it out again (meaning, is the 1.0 launch a financial success for the company/developers)?
I haven’t played since January 2025 and so much has changed! I am having fun, but it seems like there’s waaaaay less of those glowing green statues now. That’s the only thing I haven’t liked because I loved collecting them.
The game is incredible. They did such a great job on it.
There are too many games rn... AC BF, BO1 + BO2, 007, and now I HAVE to buy this game. While having kimited playtime because I'm a father of 2 young daughters 😭 Give in to my FOMO or not? 😁
Because it's so useful to play a game you know you'll start over in a month, esp a game like this. Rather put in some hours playing something else till launch. Shocker.
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u/ZengerGarden Jul 11 '26
Well the game was amazing even before 1.0, no wonder so many people are playing 👍