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Palworld

Released 9 July 2026

Players recommending it

95%Very Positive

of all 490,686 reviews on Steam

94%about the same

recommend it, last 7 days

938▼ 13%

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Recommended11 hours playedEnglish

This game is a whole new level of addiction. Be warned as soon as you start playing you cannot stop.

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Recommended, last 7 days886Not recommended, last 7 days52

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Recommended7 found it helpful110 hours played · 24 Sep

Never imagined myself even playing this game as it was an open world survival game (You can see that I own multiple of these in my library and barely touched) but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ palworld is something else. I love it so much, and I've even 100%'d the game. Thank you Pocketpair for making a masterpiece such as this :D

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Not recommended2 found it helpful68 hours played · 26 Sep

I genuinely don’t understand how this game gets as much praise as it does. Palworld had me interested at first, but the more I played, the more annoyed I got. The gameplay gets ridiculously repetitive, the AI is all over the place, the combat feels clunky, and there are bugs everywhere. Half the time it feels like I’m fighting the game itself rather than actually enjoying it. Progression quickly turns into a massive grind, and once the initial novelty wears off, there’s not much here keeping me interested. And yes, I know it’s an early-access game. That excuse can only carry you so far. If you’re going to charge people money for a game, it’s fair to expect the basic experience to actually feel polished and enjoyable. I kept waiting for it to get better. It didn’t. I just ended up wasting hours doing the same tedious crap over and over again. Not recommended. Save your money unless you’re really desperate for another survival crafting game.

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Reviews by language

Each language’s share of its reviews, and how many in that language recommend it.

490,686reviews
31 languages · point at one
LanguageReviewsShareRecommend itthe tick is every language, 95%; the chip is the gap
English208,67543%
96%+1
Simplified Chinese141,03629%
92%−3
Korean24,6135%
95%0
Portuguese - Brazil21,8874%
97%+2
German16,2823%
96%+1
Russian15,0513%
91%−4
French14,0233%
96%+1
Spanish11,6092%
96%+1
Other languages37,5108%

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