More than a week after its 1.0 launch, Palworld has come just shy of hitting one million concurrent players on Steam, an impressive milestone that’s still less than half of its true peak.
When Palworld was announced all the way back in 2021, it was easy to imagine that the Pokemon parody wouldn’t end up making much of an impact, if it even ended up releasing at all, knowing how litigious Nintendo is. Although the Nintendo part was definitely true, Palworld ended up leaving its mark in a big way.
Not only did the main game receive positive reviews and draw in a ton of players, but it’s also been spun off into its own TCG, cementing that Pals are here to stay. Last week’s 1.0 release saw the game hit a big player milestone that’s continued to increase over this weekend, even if it’s never going to reach the early access hype.
As pointed out on Twitter by the head of publishing and communications at Palworld developer Pocketpair, Bucky_cm, Palworld’s player count suddenly took a massive leap forward more than a week after release. We previously reported that the game launched to over 700k players, but the weekend seems...
