{"id":451866,"date":"2024-01-19T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=451866"},"modified":"2024-01-19T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T18:55:25","slug":"palworld-is-already-seeing-over-300000-concurrent-players-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/palworld-is-already-seeing-over-300000-concurrent-players-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Palworld is already seeing over 300,000 concurrent players on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep hitting refresh on the <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/1623730\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SteamDB<\/a> page of <em>Palworld<\/em>. Each time I do, the numbers keep shooting up. Despite the fact that Pocketpick&#8217;s new game has only come out today \u2013 in Early Access as well \u2013 the numbers suggest it&#8217;s going to be a big hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the third-party Steam tracking website posted on Twitter\/X earlier, it said Palworld had already reached over 110,000 concurrent players. At the time of writing, that number has gone up to 329,563.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palworld - Release Date Announcement Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Jn9LQslOjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/charts\/topselling\/GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Sellers list on Steam<\/a> shows it&#8217;s shot to the number two position (behind the Steam Deck, natch). While this isn&#8217;t too unusual for a brand-new game that&#8217;s got some hype behind it, it could well be a sign of things to come for the cute, <em>Pokemon<\/em>-inspired survival game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-what-exactly-is-palworld\">What exactly is Palworld?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard of or are familiar with <em>Palworld<\/em> yet, don&#8217;t worry. I wasn&#8217;t until literally two days ago. If you want a nice breakdown of what the game&#8217;s like and how it plays, a couple of our writers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/palworld-early-access-impressions-pc-steam\/\">took a quick look at it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1623730\/Palworld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam page<\/a> has this to say about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called &#8220;Pals&#8221; in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It has a little bit of everything, from what I can tell. Well, maybe not <em>everything<\/em>, but certainly enough for most gamers to get into. I must admit, I&#8217;m quietly curious myself. To such an extent that I&#8217;m currently downloading it through Xbox Game Pass. May as well, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it Pok\u00e9mon meets Ark: Survival?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":451870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[22690,19112,19126,479,19115,21827],"internal-label":[24340,24255],"invoiceable_action":[23725],"article_type":[23116],"coauthors":[{"id":868,"display_name":"Andrew Heaton","user_nicename":"andrew-heaton"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/palworld.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","author_info":{"display_name":"Andrew Heaton","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/andrew-heaton\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/palworld.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451866"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451898,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451866\/revisions\/451898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451866"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=451866"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=451866"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=451866"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=451866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}