Palworld’s meteoric trajectory has seemingly continued following its smashing 1.0 launch on July 10. Nearly two weeks after launch, on July 19, the game reached 961,867 concurrent players reported by SteamDB, the highest figure since the game’s early access launch in 2024, when it clocked just over 2.1 million concurrent players on SteamDB.



Gave it a try for a couple of hours to see what the fuss is about. It’s not bad, like a cross between a survival craft/ pokemon game / animal crossing, but very casual and dad-friendly. Haven’t seen many bugs but there’s some jank here and there. Story bits are pretty meh and I’m not really seeing it have a lot of staying power, but that might just be me not being familiar with pokemon games.