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 711
This is one of those games where you log in with a specific goal in mind, and then 4 hours pass. You'll go out to get materials, build something, or catch a specific Pal, but instead end up exploring a new area of the map, finding dungeons, uncommon Pals, and becoming completely sidetracked.
Great game, highly recomend it. And there's a new patch update happening soon.
Steam User 1272
This is not "Pokémon with guns", this is Ark Survival Evolved with Pokémon. If you like survival/crafting games and like monster catching games, there is nothing better on the market than Palworld, period.
This comes from someone who has been playing Pokémon since generation 1. It came out when I was in middle school and I have played every mainline game and most of the side games. I'm still a fan of Pokémon, but this is such a fresh take on the monster catching genre that Gamefreak has a ton of catching up to do.
I also have over 1000 hours in ARK and Survival Evolved. I played it mostly in the first few years of it's life. All the base building and creature systems in Palworld are leagues better than ARK in every conceivable way. It's unknown if ARK 2 is still happening, but it now has a really high bar to live up to.
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10 tips for new players to make your experience more enjoyable:
1. Catch 5 of every Pal. You'll know you've caught your 5 when the icon to the right of a wild pal's name goes from white to yellow. This rewards you with an effigy (see #5).
2. Follow the MSQ (Main Story Quest). It'll lead you naturally from area to area by the levels of the pals in that area. The MSQ also unlocks the towers (gym leaders) as you progress through it, which unlocks specific nodes in the tech tree that you will need.
3. Put your stat points in Weight and Stamina first. I put every point in weight until I got to 2000, then put the rest in Stamina. Weight increases your carry capacity which is super important for farming heavy rarer ores and Stamina allows you to sprint and mine longer without getting tired, Stamina also effects the pals you are riding.
4. Get a few Vixy's early (little white & brown dog/fox guy), build a Ranch (unlocked at level 5), put them in it. Passive money, arrow and palsphere generation.
5. Build a Statue of Power as soon as possible (unlocked at level 9) and make sure you feed all the pal effigies that you find into it to give your player some extra passive stats. Most effigies are found on the overworld, they look like little glowing pal statues on a pedestal and there are 12 different types. Different areas have different effigies.
6. Do every active dungeon that you come across (the caves with a blue glowy aura), they have tons of good things inside from pals and rare materials to blueprints and pal upgrade materials and more. Some of them are even just single-room treasure rooms.
7. As soon as you unlock your 2nd base, use it as an iron farming base and fill it with good mining pals. Iron Ore is the basis for everything from that point on and you will need tons of it for; higher level palshpheres, weapons, ammo, armor, accessories, base building materials and more.
8. Feed your Pals! You will need a ton of food for your pals, especially as you unlock additional bases and have more and more pals deployed and doing tasks. Check each base periodically and makes sure they don't run out of food or the pals will get bad debuffs that are detrimental and are a bit of a pain to cure. Cooked food is better than non-cooked. Have at least half a base dedicated to farming food.
9. Unlock the Guild Chest at level 41 and put one in each of your bases. These chests have a large storage capacity and all share the same inventory, so put your most used crafting materials inside of them so you have access to all of them from all of your bases!
10. Have fun and go at your own pace! There is so much to do in Palworld. Rotate your time between; working on your bases, going out and exploring the world, catching some new pals, doing some dungeons, battling some bosses, doing the main story quest and just living your best Palworld Life.
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Whether you like to play on a solo map or a dedicated server with friends, do not pass up this absolute gem of an experience. 10/10 Perfection.
Steam User 3168
I don't play games often. My grandkids got me into this game. The last game I put this much time into was Breath of the Wild which this game has a few similarities to. I hope the tree is going to be a bridge to other realms as large as this one. I highly recommend! After 1447 hours so far I'd say it's worth the money.
Steam User 395
Better than anything GameFreak has put out in the last 10 years, and it scares them.
Steam User 485
Its not pokemon its pokemon and like 7 other IPs had a kid who was slightly autistic and gets sued for being fun.
Godspeed may all greedy japanese business men tremble before you.
Steam User 315
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.
Steam User 308
I genuinely had way more fun with this than I expected.
Playing with friends is 100% the best part. Everyone ends up doing their own thing, someone disappears for an hour, someone else comes back with five new Pals, and somehow everything still works.
Also... having an entire base full of Pals doing all the work while I walk around pretending I'm being productive is way funnier than it should be.
The world is also way bigger than it looks. Every time I thought I'd seen most of it, I ended up finding another area or another Pal I wanted to catch.
Really good game if you're looking for something to waste an unhealthy amount of time on.