The open-world survival game Palworld, developed by Pocketpair, is taking gamers by storm. Arriving out of the blue to sell over six million copies in under a week, it’s difficult to contextualize just how popular the game is right now. It’s already hit the massive milestone of 1.85 million simultaneous players on the digital PC game platform Steam, which puts it above the likes of Counter-Strike 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 in terms of record all-time concurrent Steam player counts.
If the developer’s Tweets are anything to go by, Palworld is still selling so fast that I wouldn’t be surprised if that six million sales figure has already become inaccurate by the time you finish reading this sentence. That number also presumably excludes any Xbox Game Pass players, which could be quite a hefty number given the game’s simultaneous launch on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One.
