Garena has announced Palworld Online, a mobile MMORPG developed and published under an official license from Pocketpair. It's coming to iOS and Android at some point in 2026, though a specific date hasn't been shared – just the year, and a promise that more details are coming later.
The announcement is light on specifics. There's no gameplay footage, no screenshots to dig into (although the Promo Art does feature a Pal that has never been seen before), and no release window beyond the broad 2026 target. What we do have is the premise: a new MMO set in the Palworld universe, built from the ground up for mobile, with a new narrative and an emphasis on playing alongside other people in a seamless open world.
What Palworld Online Aims To Be
Rather than porting the existing game to mobile, Garena is building something different. Palworld Online is described as a "massively multiplayer online" experience – meaning instead of Palworld's existing 32-player server cap, this is designed around a persistent shared world with a much larger population. Players capture and raise Pals, build shared bases, take on PvE bosses, and go up against each other in PvP. The survival and crafting loop...
