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ActionAdventureIndieRPGOpen WorldSurvivalCreature CollectorMultiplayerOpen World Survival Craft

Palworld

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Developer
Pocketpair
Publisher
Pocketpair
Franchise
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Release date
Jul 9, 2026
Store page updated
Jul 22, 2026
Price
$29.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

88.2/ 100

Based on 402 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 95% of 9,329
All time 😄 Very Positive 95% of 488,479
“creature capture game better than Pokemon”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.26
Freedom +3.33
“open worlds, riding Pokemon, exploration and discovery” (30)

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Story & World
+0.67
World +1.84

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.84
Volume +3.70
“1447 hours of content, worth the money” (27)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+1.65
Visuals +2.42
“graphics are beautiful, especially the night sky” (19)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.15
Playing together +3.31
“playing with son since early 2024, commemorating 1.0 release” (24)
這款遊戲是陪我兒子玩的，從2024年初至今，再過1小時就是2026/07/10 ，也就是1.0正式版本的日子，紀念這一天^^

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.69
Balance -2.27

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-0.84
Developer support +2.03

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Jan 2024Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 9,177 reviews, peak 738/day
05001k
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 402 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English30%
  • Chinese17%
  • Portuguese11%
  • Russian9%
  • Spanish7%
  • Japanese6%
  • Other20%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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