It turns out that the idea of “Pokémon with guns” appears to be pretty popular. Pocket Pair, the developers behindPalworld, have announced that their fledgling title is already selling incredibly well.
How well, you ask? Well, the team revealed that sales for the newly released game have already crossed the million copies sold mark – and that was in just eight hours.
Palworld has sold over 1 million copies in about 8 hours since release!Thank you to everyone for playing!#Pocketpair#Palworldpic.twitter.com/HbllMotIJr
Described by the development team as a “monster-catching, survival and crafting game”,Palworldjust launched yesterday on Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview. It’s also available for Xbox Game Pass, though the subscription service isn’t typically accounted for in sales figures.
Momentum was strong forPalworldleading up to its release. The night before launch, the game was rankedthird on Steam’s Wishlist page. On top of that, the hodgepodge project iscurrently trending on Xat the time of this article being published.
I describePalworldas a hodgepodge project because it seems to borrow lots of different ideas from other notable games. In hisrecent impressions of the Early Access build, Destructoid’s Eric Van Allen noted that on top of there being similarities to thePokémonseries, there are also elements ofBreath of the Wild,Rust,Valheim,andMonster Hunterincorporated throughout too.
Again,Palworldwill remain in an Early Access/Game Preview build for at least a year according toits Steam page. There are plenty of additions and changes that Pocket Pair plans to implement in the coming months. Amongst them will be new monsters to catch, new areas and dungeons to explore, fresh buildings and items for survival, and more. The development team also noted that they “are also considering incorporating entirely new game systems based on player feedback and ideas.”
