Palworld
About This Game
Q. What kind of game is this?
A. In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate.
Pals can be used to fight, or they can be made to work on farms or factories.
You can even sell them or eat them!
Survival
In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices…even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.
Mounts & Exploration
Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.
Building Structures
Want to build a pyramid? Put an army of Pals on the job. Don’t worry; there are no labor laws for Pals.
Production
Make use of Pals and their skills to make fire, generate electricity, or mine ore so that you can live a life of comfort.
Farming
Some Pals are good at planting seeds, while others are skilled at watering or harvesting crops. Work together with your Pals to create an idyllic farmstead.
Factories & Automation
Letting Pals do the work is the key to automation. Build a factory, place a Pal in it, and they’ll keep working as long as they’re fed—until they’re dead, that is.
Dungeon Exploration
With Pals on your side you can tackle even the most dangerous areas. When the time comes, you might have to sacrifice one to save your skin. They’ll protect your life—even if it costs their own.
Breeding & Genetics
Breed a Pal and it will inherit the characteristics of its parents. Combine rare pals to create the strongest Pal of them all!
Poaching & Crime
Endangered Pals live in wildlife sanctuaries. Sneak in and capture rare Pals to get rich quick! It’s not a crime if you don’t get caught, after all.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer is supported, so invite a friend and go on an adventure together! And of course you can battle your friends and trade Pals, too.
In online co-op play mode, up to 4 players can play together.
Additionally, a dedicated server can allow up to 32 players to play together.
Note: PvP will be implemented in a future update.
Note: The maximum number of players playable on the same server will also be increased in a future update.
Steam User 1314
i don't leave reviews just wanted to say buy this game if you like creature capture games like pokemon and megami tensei
also SCREW nintendo and there patents.
Steam User 903
Game is fun, but mostly bought to fund anti-Nintendo legal fees. You can't patent game mechanics, Nintendo. Fuck you.
Steam User 392
Better than anything GameFreak has put out in the last 10 years, and it scares them.
Steam User 453
Great game, and A+ Devs for making it AND having the willingness to stand up for smaller devs everywhere with their success.
Screw Nintendo.
Steam User 251
Great game solo, risky online.
Palworld is an amazing game if you're playing solo. But if you’re in a guild online, be very careful who you trust.
Guild members can destroy your entire base, steal everything, and leave the guild, even if you’re the Guild Master. That’s exactly what happened to me. Since the server base capacity was maxed out, I let a new player join me. I gave them free gear, items, and Pals, then went to sleep. When I logged in the next day, everything was gone. They wiped my base and left. All those days of hard work building just stolen in an instant. Lesson learned, no more being nice to people online. They will screw you over.
The Steam name of the player who did this was tankerlegend2. Avoid him if you see him. You’ll recognize him, he constantly begs for stuff in chat instead of earning it himself, especially kept asking for a Jetragon.
Honestly, Guild Masters should have control over who can destroy or access base structures. Right now, you have zero protection.
Because of that, I’m no longer a fan of multiplayer servers and now just play solo.
Great game, but terrible guild permissions. 4/5 stars.
Steam User 506
Maybe if Nintendo spent less time trying to patent game mechanics to shut down indie games, and more time making something good like Palworld here.... well anyways.....
Palworld is a fantastic open world creature collecting and survival game. Honestly the only negatives I have with this game is building options are limited and it gets a bit grindy in the mid game. Everything else is fantastic.
Steam User 206
541 hours so far and i just want to do a review even though the game is still in early access.
Palworld has been incredibly entertaining for someone like me who is constantly looking for good survival games. Many games leave a lot to be desired when it comes to inventory management, base building and accessibility for people who want to play with different settings.
Palworld has a ton of potential to be a game capable of nailing all 3, from the simplistic design and gameplay that feeds very well into the survival aspect, to the many settings allowing you to adjust grind and pace of the experience. Endgame consists of perfecting your favorite pals, amassing a ton of loot and fighting difficult Raid bosses. That being said, there are still some very unpleasant experiences waiting to be had.
- Endgame Raids are tuned for groups and min-maxed pals. Expect to spend weeks breeding and perfecting stats/IV's/Traits on a specific meta pal for that Raid boss just to be able to beat them alone. Newest raid bosses/Oil rigs are difficulty sponges, add more damage and health. Oil rigs alone are very unrewarding with drop chances for legendary weapons being abnormally low, and loot from oil rig enemies is pathetic so most people end up rushing through them. It's pretty bad.
- No options for speeding up breeding/altering RNG of traits being transferred. Breeding is a HUGE part of palworlds progression, and while you can technically complete all bosses without breeding, it is very hard to do so and most End-Game bosses demand you have at least a maxed souls/IV's pal team at level cap. Breeding can take days to get what you want and its all up to RNG.
- Base building is very unpolished. Expect frequent frustration as you have difficulty placing down items as they find random invisible objects underground preventing you from building there. You cannot multi-build, have fun placing 20 pillars down individually every 3 tiles away to create solid support for structures if you hate the clunkiness and uncertainty of building on ground. No Cross hatching or triangle pieces either, enjoy making a square fort in a circular radius of your base.
- Nintendo. Probably affecting this game in the most negative way possible. Due to a lawsuit that nintendo threw at palworld, many features are currently at risk, or have been removed. Gliding is currently patented by nintendo, no more riding your glider pals. You can no longer release your pals by throwing them out due to nintendo patenting the throwing mechanic, making releasing your pals very clunky. Thankfully palworld was able to fix it up to be much more tolerable. So far nintendo has been a huge roadblock for palworld over petty jealousy of being very successful with mechanics that pokemon uses. Instead of letting palworld flourish into an amazing game, they are trying to burry it in the dirt and prevent anyone from switching to a pokemon alternative. If that doesn't scream a big "Fuck You" to people who want to enjoy a fun game then i don't know what will. Sorry, i could rant on about nintendos actions for so long, it really is depressing.
So far i would give this game a 9/10 for potential in early access. The only reason i didn't give that 10/10 was due to those weird ass decisions to make drop rates for crucial work books/blueprints below 1% for dropping, and the inflated difficulty of the new Oil rigs/Raid bosses, making them incredibly tedious to beat with very little reward. I question pawlorlds future balance choices for upcoming content. Pro tip; if you're struggling with the endgame Raid bosses, just turn damage up to max ( x10 multiplier ) and get a team of max condensed Gobfins and an elemental buff mount that the raid boss is weak to. Pray you can get at least a tier 3 or above multi guided missle launcher and go nuts on it. Don't feel bad, the fights are not difficult, they just demand you put in weeks to breed perfected min/maxed pals, have a meta build with legendary rarity weapons and cooperate with 1 or more players to take it down reliably. That level of breeding is not for everyone, and it burnt me out multiple times. Settings are a godsend and they are adding more every update!