Obviously it’s a very hyped up game, and I was apprehensive posting this as they have sufficient marketing behind them already. It’s meme’d as “Pokemon with Guns”, but at its core is a very heavy survival play style.
Have you tried it? How many hours in are you?
If you have, what do you think? How does it stack up against other survival games for you?
My view is in the comments…
Edit: First 2 votes are downvotes and into minus immediately? I get you may not like the hype. Say it, but this is to also stimulate debate and build this community. We’re off the lemm.ee first page and any downvote is just going to contribute to keeping this community buried when it needs a little oxygen. Do we really want another dead small community? It’s also an opportunity to bring folk into survival games…
I enjoy survival games. First played Minecraft, I enjoy Empyrion, put a few hours a week into Valheim. I started Conan Exiles, but found out about the slavery aspect after stumbling upon the options in the game. I thought that was distasteful, but I enjoyed the other aspects of the game.
In Palworld, can you still progress through the game without enslaving and working these creatures to death? In Pokemon, you travel around with your buddies, and you form connections with your team. From what I’m hearing about Palworld is you have minions who you exploit.
Is it an option to play the game with that companion feel of Pokemon, where my monster buddies are helping me out for the benefit of us all? Versus just using monsters for my own benefit? I want to play the game, but I’m not going to get any enjoyment out of taskmastery and buggery.