The Pokémon-with-guns-and-abusive-labor-practices game Palworld is off to a roaring early access launch on Steam, racking up 370,000 concurrent users (and counting) in its first day of release. That's proving to be a bit of a problem for the game's servers, which are buckling under the stream, but developer Pocketpair says it's working on the problem, and in the meantime says you should just keep hammering on it until you get it.
To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson's thoughts on Snakes on a Plane, people either want to play this game or they don't. I think the concept is just awful enough to be potentially funny—you can literally eat your Pals if you're feeling peckish and they're not serving any other useful purpose—but Lincoln Carpenter found it mostly off-putting and gross, saying it "could be a delight if it wasn't so invested in being awful,"
