Pocketpair Publishing lead John 'Bucky' Buckley jokes Slay the Spire 2's release has definitely pushed back the release of Palworld 1.0 by "at least" a day.
Slay the Spire 2 was immediately a huge success, with the game hitting over 570,000 concurrent players during its opening weekend – that's one of Steam's top 20 highest peaks of all time for anyone keeping count – which isn't exactly surprising from the sequel to one of the best deckbuilders of all time. One of those players was the CEO of Palworld developer Pocketpair, Takuro Mizobe, who apparently got a telling off from staff after staying up all night playing it.
