Summary
ThePalworldcraze is showing no signs of slowing down, with the game just blowing past 5 million sales. This turn of events serves as yet another illustration ofPalworld’s exceptionally successful launch.
Made by Tokyo-based Pocketpair,Palworldhas reached early accesson January 19, debuting on both PC and the last two generations of Microsoft’s consoles, in addition to Xbox Game Pass. To say that its release went by swimmingly would be an understatement, as the game took only eight hours to surpass 1 million sales.
Palworldmanaged to quintuple its total sales tally over the following two and a half days, with Pocketpair just confirming as much. Taking to Twitter, the Japanese studio thanked the fans for their ongoing support, on top of expressing its gratitude for the massive influx of fan art and gameplay footage that’s currently swarming social media and thus contributing to the overall buzz surrounding the hit game.
The developer also used its latest sales update as an opportunity to encourage fans to leave a review if they have been enjoyingPalworldin orther to further boost its discoverability. Many players have already done just that, as evidenced by the fact that the game boasts “Very Positive” reviews on Steam as of January 22, based on over 41,000 user ratings. Yet many more could still do so, asPalworld’s current concurrent Steam player countis north of 1.5 million.
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That figure makes Pocketpair’s latest title the third most-played game in the history of Valve’s platform, only behindCounter-Strike 2andPUBG: Battlegrounds, whose all-time player peaks sit at 1.8 million and 3.2 million, respectively. Its massive popularity is even more impressive in the context of paid-only Steam games, a category thatPalworldis now leading by some distance. Time will tell how longPalworldkeeps leading the Steam Top Sellers chart, but even if it were to end up being a short-lived fad, its launch weekend alone has already carved out its place in the annals of gaming history.
In the meantime, the game’s exceedingly successful release continues to cause problems with its multiplayer features, which have been sporadically going offline over the past three days. Pocketpair, for its part, explained that a lot of these ongoing issues stem fromPalworldplayers inadvertently overloading the game’s Epic Online Services backend. While the developer revealed that it’s already working on resolving these difficulties as soon as possible, the situation persists as of January 22.
Palworld
WHERE TO PLAY
In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fight and breed, or they can be made to work on farms or factories. You can even sell them or eat them.Survival: In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices…even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.Mounts & Exploration: Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.Collect all kinds of exciting Pals to fight, farm, build, and work for you in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
