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 1714
I loved pokemon, and still love it. I also like survival games. This is the best of both, creature collector and survival. Nintendo should take notes, not lawsuits.
Steam User 3762
Some will call this a Pokemon rip off, I'd argue this game capitalises on Pokemon's lack of innovation and change to bring people the game they wish they had but never got. There is clear inspiration from other titles but that doesn't have to be an inherently bad thing, no matter how you view the originality you cannot deny that the game is simply... fun. Which at it's core is all a game should be.
Steam User 4005
i punched the first person i saw and he drew a musket and plugged me. best opening 30s of a game i can remember
Steam User 8629
Most people, myself included, thought this game was going to be a meme. It's actually insanely detailed, extremely well optimized, and compelling as hell. For something going into Early Access this is a VERY strong start. Can't wait to see what they do going forward.
Edit: For the absolutely wild people in the comments. No I was not paid to play the game. Not disclosing payment would be a violation of Section 317 of the Communications Act of 1934. The company reached out to me after I clowned on Palworld on stream. They gave me a key and said there were a real company. I tried it and found that I legitimately enjoyed the game. As such I left this review in good faith and checked the box saying it was for free. I'm under no obligation to do this. Take off your tinfoil hats, makes ya look weird.
Steam User 1911
In short, it's very addictive and overall fun game. Also I will preface that you should not expect to in the game guns blazing - you will need to advance your levels till you can craft a gun and not all Pals can use a gun, actually most can't.
It's a great mix between a survival game and a monster collector game. While it obviously has same elements as most other P named monster collector games, I would say Palworld has it's own identity and gameplay and it's own legs to stand on.
I definitely thought it's a meme game before I got to test it during network test access and I was completely blown away with how it beat all my expectations to the point it's instant buy for me.
There is some lore, but it's mostly hidden and scattered throughout the game in text form. Don't expect much story from it or some quests, treat this as a survival game.
UI is a bit lacking, but you get used to it.
Pal models are great to the point that I can't choose what to have in my limited main team because of how cool all the later level pals look.
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Kurama will be missed!
Steam User 2912
Nintendo is jealous they can't produce a solid 60fps experience with little to no bugs and frame rate drops with a team 100x larger than palwords dev team. And no its not a Switch hardware issue since TOTK runs very well with little framerate drops and bugs for such a massive open world game on their own console LOL
Support Palworld and support competitive titles that will push Game Freak to not release trash!
Steam User 835
Palworld is a very good and fun game. As the tags says, its a open world survival creature collecting game.
Now nintendo is suing Pocketpair on the basis of PATENT infrigement. NOT COPYRIGHT; patents.
They're not coming for the Pal's design, but for gameplay elements.
In the last year, they filed patents for many of these gameplay mechanics.
And now they're coming to sue Pocketpair.
While this game has magic creatures, it mostly resembles a classic open world survival game;
you collect wood, rocks, everything to craft armor, weapons, equipment in general.
You build yourself, your base, and your team of magic creatures to fight bigger and stronger enemies.
What's there that is in common with nintedo games? The creature collecting.
But Creature collecting isn't a gameplay mechanic; it's a GENRE.
Digimon, Temtem, Coromon, Cassette Beasts, many more; these are all Creature Collecting games.
A genre cannot be patented.
If the developers of the first survival games had patented their systems, none of the great survival games we know would have been developed. Stuff like Minecraft, Terraria, Subnautica, and many more.
This game doesn't play like nintendo games. It's an action game, it's not turn based!
You also fight as your character himself, not just watch creatures fight for you!
What nintendo is doing here is evil and greedy.
They're abusing the legal system to try and take down someone that isn't even their competitor.
Palworld doesn't share a platform with their games. They're literally on separate markets.
This game is a good game, and it's very different from those others.
It's much more of a survival open world game, with Creature Collecting and base building and resource automation.
Out of all the creature collecting games that cloned nintendo's games, Palworld really isn't it.
But it's a good game, it's fun, it was ever since its first release. It's still in active development, and gets updated regularly. Its developers focus on the player's fun, and have greatly succeded.
I trust them to keep doing a good job, if they're not stopped by this legal abuse coming from greedy old talentless people that have kept making the same stale game for decades.