It's often a good idea to check SteamDB at the end of the year, to get an idea of how the gaming landscape has changed over the past while. It can give you some great info on general trends, but you're not gonna avoid sudden data spikes - and an especially well-timed update from Pocketpair has given us one of those.
Remember when Palworld first launched, and the hype for that game was, well, everywhere? Palworld: Feybreak hasn't reached those same heights yet, but it's easily been the game's biggest popularity spike since launch.
Palworld is sitting atop a throne of 200,000 concurrent players. That's the current 24-hour peak of the game, and as of this exact moment of writing, it's sitting at a "modest" 123,000.
This release puts it within Steam's top 10 most played games. It beats the numbers of Call of Duty and Baldur's Gate 3.
Pocketpair's game has a mighty hill in front of them, as GTA is the next challenge for them to surpass - and while current projections show that it's unlikely to shove GTA aside, Feybreak proves that Palworld can still put a dent in one of gaming's biggest titans.
