Palworld’s latest update has added the game’s first raid boss, Bellanoir.
15.03.2024 - 10:43 / gamingbolt.com / Takuro Mizobe
It’s hard to imagine that we’re going to get a bigger surprise hit in all of 2024 than Palworld. The survival game launched as an early access title in January, and within a month, it had attracted over 25 million players across all platforms. It’s safe to say that developer Pocketpair has very much put itself on the map- but what does it have planned for the future? For instance, is the independent Japanese studio looking to get acquired?
Touching on the topic of potential acquisitions while speaking with Bloomberg, CEO Takuro Mizobe said that though Pocketpair is “content” to remain independent, it would be “open to consider offers for partnership or acquisition”. Interestingly, however, Mizobe also added that the studio is in no such talks with Microsoft, nor does he plan on making it a publicly traded company.
Regardless of what the future has in store for Pocketpair on that front, Mizobe says the company “will remain a small studio”. The developer has previously said that it’s “overwhelmingly short” of people, but though it’s looking to expand so it can support Palworld, Mizobe says he wants to “make multiple small games.”
“Big-budget triple-A games are not for us,” he says.
That Pocketpair would be an attractive acquisition target for many in the industry would be an understatement, at least as things stand right now. The developer has made tens of billions of yen in profits on Palworld against a budget of just $6.7 million, after all.
Palworld is available as an early access title on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. Pocketpair is “in talks” to bring the game to additional platforms.
Palworld’s latest update has added the game’s first raid boss, Bellanoir.
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players are using mods to create massive cities from scratch in-game and the results are quite impressive. Though there are small cities spread throughout the map, most of them are small shacks built out of wooden planks and metal scraps instead of the materials players can use to build their bases. Fortifying bases and making sure that the base is completely unraidable is key in but this player wanted to make sure that they had even more life than just a few Pals running around.
The Palworld community manager has responded to a tweet describing the upcoming game DokeV as a "Palworld killer." Palworld made a massive impact when it launched in early access earlier this year. Smashing records on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, Palworld is easily one of the year's biggest games, and if it's able to stick the landing with future updates, it should have serious longevity.
When loading into Palworld, one player discovered their world had turned pink thanks to an unknown glitch. Since the game is an early access title, it's not unusual to run into a bug or two. Though it's not a game breaking glitch, having a pink tinted world is distracting to the player experience of Palworld.
As is to be expected following its successful launch, more games in the style of are in development. Upon its release in January on Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, there was plenty of controversy surrounding how similar some of 's «Pals» were to Pokémon, resulting in The Pokémon Company launching a copy investigation, although 's developer, Pocket Pair, insisted that its game is much closer to survival sandbox titles such as and and passed several legal checks before its release.
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PocketPair's Palworld — a game that the internet dubbed 'Pokemon with guns' ahead of its early access release in January — has been a huge success for both the developer and Xbox.
could see a much-needed endgame improvement soon. Unlike most open-world survival games, is surprisingly linear. Sure, players can go wherever they want, whenever they want, but the map is always the same, aside from its procedurally generated dungeons. Players will always find the same landmarks, Pal habitats, and skill trees in the same places in . There's something to be said for a bespoke map design, but the linear nature of means that there's a clear-cut endgame. At a certain point, a player has done everything there is to do on the Palpagos Islands.
In January, the «Pokemon with guns» game Palworld blew up the internet. Thanks partly to its availability via Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview, the game attracted some 25 million players. Developer Pocketpair says that plans to bring the game to other platforms continue apace, and discussions with unnamed platform holders are underway, likely including PlayStation.
Palworld’s endgame options are set to expand with the introduction of the game’s first raid. Following the game’s meteoric rise earlier this year, the team published a roadmap laying out its plans for the game. The main takeaway was that while new content was coming, Pocketpair was prioritizing fixing the game’s major pain points before pivoting to adding new things to the game.