Palworld: Pokémon with guns

DEL 707 · 17 Sep 2022 at 16:07

Never been one for Pokémon, but I just saw a trailer and this game has got my attention.
Looks like it does a bit of everything. Combat, building, farming, breeding and dungeons.

Palworld is a brand-new, multiplayer, open-world survival crafting game where you can befriend and collect mysterious creatures called "Pal" in a vast world! Make your Pals fight, build, farm, and work in factories.

No official release date yet, other then it's coming 2023.

Palworld on Steam

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

store.steampowered.com

LostCorpse · 17 Sep 2022 at 22:06

mmm lets see were this goes..

arknor · 17 Sep 2022 at 22:37

looks good but if it's one of those

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then I'm out

Hotwired · 17 Sep 2022 at 22:42

arknor said:
looks good but if it's one of those

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then I'm out

What if they say it's free to play*

*but pay to win.

krooton · 27 Sep 2022 at 12:27

arknor said:
looks good but if it's one of those

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then I'm out

*side-eyes Genshin Impact*
*side-eyes Tower of Fantasy*
*side-eyes Dislyte*

Crap, I might be a gacha simp!

DEL 707 · 8 Jun 2023 at 22:00

LostCorpse · 8 Jun 2023 at 22:23

still mixed on this even after the trailer.
sword art online / fatel bullet come to mind with factory automation / pokemon.
needs more baking time and some gameplay footage i think.

DEL 707 · 19 Jan 2024 at 19:44

Went into early access today.
He's some actual gameplay.

Lot more crafing and base building then I expected.

Sega Mega Dave · 20 Jan 2024 at 09:14

1 million copies sold in 8 hours apparently, seems to be getting good reviews and the pricing isn’t bad.

khevolution · 20 Jan 2024 at 09:40

As tempted as I would be, I'm trying to stay away from early access games, I've been burnt too many times in the past.

Sega Mega Dave · 20 Jan 2024 at 09:41

khevolution said:
As tempted as I would be, I'm trying to stay away from early access games, I've been burnt too many times in the past.

The same but I’ve got the urge to buy it being as it’s only just over £20.

Buddy · 20 Jan 2024 at 09:47

Tempted, is there much content this early on?

theukmoog · 20 Jan 2024 at 10:06

I had never even heard the name of this game before it exploded all over the gaming sites and streamers yesterday... so refreshing when a game doesn't have multiple years of build up to release and just arrives, instead!

LostCorpse · 20 Jan 2024 at 10:25

just have to be weary of sponsored streamer reviews ect
i'll be lookin at this today for game play ect. requirements arent to bad and short term co-op is up to 4 player or a dedicated server up to 32 players

hyperseven · 20 Jan 2024 at 10:26

Doing well and this does not include the people on GP.

Gray2233 · 20 Jan 2024 at 10:29

Buddy said:
Tempted, is there much content this early on?

Wouldn't mind a heads up on this myself.

Tombstone · 20 Jan 2024 at 10:51

Buddy said:
Tempted, is there much content this early on?

There actually is.

Theres 111 pets (pokemons) to collect, a very large world, a few hundred different items and structures to build and several bosses to progress through in the different biomes (its a little Valheim-esque in so much as you have world bosses that you work through as you level up from area to area)

Its reasonably stable in co-op, though we've had a few crashes, mechanics work well although I will say that the building mechanics are a little janky.

One thing to note is that the gamepass version is a patch behind the steam version currently so only the steam version allows more than 4 players or dedicated servers.

Noxia · 20 Jan 2024 at 11:06

khevolution said:
As tempted as I would be, I'm trying to stay away from early access games, I've been burnt too many times in the past.

Yep. Especially ones that seem a bit flavour of the month and streamers are pushing. Red flag to me generally.
Also I'm pretty burnt out on open world survival stuff at this stage.

Tombstone · 20 Jan 2024 at 11:57

Noxia said:
Yep. Especially ones that seem a bit flavour of the month and streamers are pushing. Red flag to me generally.
Also I'm pretty burnt out on open world survival stuff at this stage.

Tbh I'd be more invested in Palworld if it wasnt for the fact that Enshrouded is released in 4 days time and I REALLY liked the demo of Enshrouded, although they do have differences they are similar enough that I cant play them both simultaneously

(and the voxel based building system in Enshrouded really spoiled me when it comes to building mechanics)

Noxia · 20 Jan 2024 at 12:00

Tombstone said:
Tbh I'd be more invested in Palworld if it wasnt for the fact that Enshrouded is released in 4 days time and I REALLY liked the demo of Enshrouded, although they do have differences they are similar enough that I cant play them both simultaneously

(and the voxel based building system in Enshrouded really spoiled me when it comes to building mechanics)

Enshrouded looks cool but I'll wait and see how the solo experience is first. Valheim was fine. I know what you mean about similar games, I tend to just play one of multiple genres at a time.