Palworld is going quiet as Pocketpair takes an iron to its 'quirks and jank,' with full release planned for 2026

A Palworld player character sitting in the grass, wearing red metal high level armor. Behind her, you can see a Tombat in the distance. .

It's easy to forget amid the enormous success, Nintendo court cases, and that time its dev started a publisher, but Palworld isn't even really out yet. The game's been in early access since its release almost two years ago—1.0 remaining eternally on the horizon.

But that horizon draws nearer. In an update published today to Pocketpair's various social media channels to announce two main things: that it's resolved to put out Palworld's 1.0 version in 2026, and that doing that means there probably won't be any huge updates for the rest of 2025.