Whatever your thoughts on it – and I, too, have a lot of thoughts on it – there's no denying that Palworld is the game of the moment. It's always exciting to see a game of this scope find such virality, and 2024's first big hitter has come early. Palworld's record-breaking Steam launch and glowing user reviews make it very clear that people were hungry for a game like this, and for all its many faults, Palworld has found explosive success by giving them what they wanted.
That's the important phrase here: a game like this. Millions of people, maybe hundreds of millions, have fantasized about a game like this. They – and by they I mostly mean Pokemon fans – have been dreaming up a hardcore, multiplayer, open-world creature-collector for years. The idea is up there with 'what I'd do if I won the lottery' on the mental junk food tier list, and Palworld is most of the way there.
