Palworld’s latest update has added the game’s first raid boss, Bellanoir.
15.03.2024 - 10:43 / gamingbolt.com
No one could have expected that Palworld would go on to become one of 2024’s biggest success stories in the games industry. Dubbed “Pokemon with guns” in the lead-up to its release, the action-adventure survival title saw an instant explosion in popularity upon its early access release in January, becoming the biggest ever third-party launch on Game Pass and Steam’s second-highest concurrently played game to date, with its total player count standing at 25 million within a month of its launch.
Unsurprisingly, developer Pocketpair is looking to capitalize on the game’s popularity by bringing it to additional platforms. Currently available only on PC and Xbox, speaking with Bloomberg, Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe confirmed that the developer is “in talks to bring Palworld to more platforms.”
There were suggestions shortly after the game came out that conversations had started around a PS5 release, though how long it’ll be before the game launches for Sony’s console remains to be seen. Of course, it should be interesting to see whether the game also ends up releasing for the Switch (or its rumoured successor), especially given the somewhat troublesome context surrounding Pocketpair and The Pokemon Company.
Palworld is currently available as an early access title on PC, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One, and is also available via Game Pass. Read our review of the game through here.
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.
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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.
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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.