Palworld
Pocketpair
Palworld mixes creature collection with guns and base craft.
What kind of game is it?
Open-world survival craft with pals as labor and combat. Multiplayer optional.
Who is it for?
For players who chase pals that work the base and fight beside them.
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- Loop
- Exploring a map
- Sessions
- Long sessions
- Progression
- A world that stays
- Players
- Solo or co-op
- Structure
- Sandbox
- Tone
- Comedic · Accessible
Game DNA
What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.
- Progression80
Estimate
- Social55
Estimate
- Session commitment82
Estimate
Key Steam facts
Steam store figures, checked 13 Sept 2026.
2024-01-19
Checked 17 Aug 2026.
Steam positive percent.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
How many people play Palworld?
Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.
Steam reviews × 25 to 55.
Copies × current price × 50–80% (sales, regional prices). Before Steam's cut, refunds and tax.
Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.
Peak that month: 599,628.
Half of 300 recent reviewers played 33–157.2 h. 0% under 2 h.
Players over time
Where the players are
Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.
- English46%
- Simplified Chinese15%
- Russian7%
- Korean7%
- Portuguese (Brazil)6%
- Spanish (Spain)4%
Palworld players also play
Games played for more than an hour in 38 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).
- Human Fall Flat34% · ×2.7
- FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION16% · ×6.5
- Raft32% · ×2.4
- Jump King11% · ×13.4
- Goose Goose Duck24% · ×3
- Tabletop Simulator21% · ×3.2
- Trove18% · ×3.6
- UNO16% · ×4.2
- House Flipper21% · ×2.9
- R.E.P.O.40% · ×1.8
Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026
What makes it different?
Cute pals work the base and fight with firearms. Controversy is part of the public record; this page does not litigate it.
Core mechanics
Similar games
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Related games
Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.
Genre / subgenre
Subgenres: Open world survival craft.
Steam genre: Open World Survival Craft.
Related rankings
Palworld — launch intelligence
Creature survival craft. Steam page (survival corpus): 477,157 reviews at 95%, Early Access-turned-released row with price 28.99 EUR on 17 August 2026. Shypiard will not call this obscure.
Store price checked 13 Sept 2026.
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