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Palworld Becomes the 7th Game Ever to Reach 1 Million Concurrent Players on Steam (www.githyp.com)

submitted 10 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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"Palworld is now one of only seven games that have seen over 1 million concurrent players on Steam – the others include: PUBG (3.2 mil), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.8 mil), Counter-Strike 2 (1.4 mil), Lost Ark (1.3 mil), Dota 2 (1.2 mil), and Cyberpunk 2077 (1 mil)."

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[–] specseaweed@lemmy.world 128 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Can’t help but feel like this is the market that exists for anything Pokémon adjacent because Pokémon has sucked ass for like a decade.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Its weird because except for the looks and taming mechanic it has nothing to do with pokemon. But yeah it probably helps to get people interested in the first place.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I get that direct comparisons to Pokémon might seem too surface level to someone who has played both. But let’s not beat around the bush: People have been begging GameFreak for something like this for years now. And I don‘t mean the guns, but everything else, really. There‘s a reason so many Pokémon mods are made for these type of games anyway. Really, players couldn‘t have been more obvious about what they wanted all these years.

[–] 520@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As someone who has not played Palworld but practically swore off mainline Pokémon since Sword and Shield (made an exception for Arceus), I couldn't agree more with this.

Now I've looked at the Palworld trailer and not only does this look like more than just a Pokémon knock off like Digimon or Yokai Watch, this looks very competently made. Sure the guns might be shock value, but the point is they're doing more with the concept than the same shit Game freak has been doing since 1996 on the fucking Game Boy. They certainly aren't relying on that shock value.

I'm actually tempted to buy Palworld.

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Played it until 2AM with my girlfriend last night, even though we both fully knew we had work in the morning. This morning is not great, but it was so, so worth it. I can't remember the last time I had that much fun experiencing a game for the first time--maybe Warhammer II on release. I'd definitely recommend, especially for the price.

[–] 520@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Ah damn, if only my gf had a gaming PC. I think she'd like this a lot.

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