Palworld is The Biggest Third-Party Game Pass Launch Ever

Abdul Saad

Developer Pocketpair has announced that the early access release for its massively successful survival monster collecting game Palworld, has surpassed 19 million players across PC and Xbox. Additionally, the developer announced that the title has also now sold over 12 million copies on Steam and the Xbox Game Pass version specifically, has surpassed 7 million players. Lastly, according to Microsoft, the Xbox version has now surpassed 3 million active users, making it the biggest third party Game Pass launch ever. The company also claimed that it is working on fully supporting the Xbox version. “We’re providing support to enable dedicated servers,” the company said in a recent press release, “offering engineering resources to help with GPU and memory optimisation, speeding up the process to make Palworld updates available for players, and working with the team to optimize the title for our platform.” Palworld launched for early access on January 19 for Xbox Series X/S and PC. Despite being a recent massive success with over 8 million copies sold and 2 million peak concurrent players on Steam has also been rather contentious.

🎉Total number of players exceeds 19 million🎉

It's been less than two weeks since #Palworld was released, thank you!

・Steam: 12 million~ copies
・Xbox: 7 million~ players

We will continue to prioritize fixing bugs!
Thank you for your continued support of #Pocketpair! pic.twitter.com/twgAeYVL07

— Palworld (@Palworld_EN) January 31, 2024

The game’s details via the developer:

Palworld is a game about living a slow life with mysterious creatures “Pal” or throwing yourself into life-and-death battles with poachers.

You can make Pals fight, breed, help with farming, or work in factories. You can also sell them off or even slaughter them to eat! That however, is forbidden by law.

Key Features

Survival – This world is full of dangers such as food shortages, harsh weather, and illegal poachers. You must be prepared to do anything if you want to survive. You may even need to consume Pals sometimes…
Riding and exploration – Fly, swim, dig holes… you can explore all kinds of places on lands, the sea, and in the sky by riding Pals.
Building – Do you want to build a pyramid? You can have a large number of Pals work on the construction. Don’t worry; labor laws won’t be applied to Pals.
Life – Make your life more comfortable by collecting a variety of valuable Pals to light fires, generate power, and mine minerals.
Farming – Different Pals are good at different things such as sowing, watering, harvesting, or else. Create attractive farms and orchards with your Pals. There are also Pals that can duplicate themselves when they’re planted.
Factory and Automation – It is essential for automation to let Pals do the manual work. Build a factory and place Pals in it. They will work forever as long as they’re fed until the end of their lifetime.
Dungeon Exploration – With Pals, you’ll be safe in dangerous areas. If you are in danger, you use Pals to cover your escape! They’ll give their lives to protect you.
Breeding and Heredity – When you breed Pals, they inherit the parents’ characteristics. Mix rare species Pals to raise the strongest Pals!
Poaching and Crime – Endangered species Pals live in the hunting prohibited area. If you sneak in and catch them, you’ll get tons of money! It’s only illegal if you get caught.
Multiplayer – This game supports multiplayer. Invite your friends to go on an adventure together. Of course, you can battle and trade with other players!