PocketPair·Released Jan 19, 2024·Single player
Palworld is a multiplayer, open-world survival crafting game where you can befriend and collect mysterious creatures called "Pal" in a vast world! Make your Pals fight, build, farm, and work in factories.
There are simple pleasures to be found in Palworld's enormous list of crafting tasks, but look beyond its base building and its world, monster taming and combat all feel quite stale and undercooked.
This version of Palworld isn't nearly as polished, but it is still a ton of fun.
Palworld may crib quite a bit from Pokémon’s homework, but deep survival mechanics and a hilarious attitude make it hard to put down – even in Early Access.
Early Access review: Palworld is a strange and obliviously cruel game that nonetheless shows effort and some real thought going into its design. Consequently, the end result (so far) is an arguably-functional hybrid of several proven formulas that still can't help feeling like a…
