Palworld developer Pockerpair is branching out from its first hit title to provide publishing services for other developers, and it's starting with a horror title from Surgent Studios. Palworld has been a runaway success, amassing millions of downloads and a vocal and passionate community of supporters. Now, Pocketpair turns its attention to helping other developers find success with their own games as a publisher.
According to Games Industry, Pocketpair is officially launching the PocketPair Publishing arm of its company, with Surgent Studios acting as their first partnering developers. Surgent is the studio behind Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a metroidvania that was published under the EA Originals label. Together with Pockerpair as their publisher, Surgent is working on a brand-new, standalone horror title that's not set in the Kenzera universe.
Despite receiving overall positive reviews, Tales of Kenzera: Zau failed to take off and Surgent was forced to put a pause on making games. With Pocketpair taking the studio under its wing, the studio has a chance to try again. This time, Surgent has Pocketpair's entire massive community watching: Palworld netted a reported 19 million downloads within just two weeks of launch, according to the Pocketpair X account.
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