“Palworld is now one of only seven games that have seen over 1 million concurrent players on Steam – the others include: PUBG (3.2 mil), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.8 mil), Counter-Strike 2 (1.4 mil), Lost Ark (1.3 mil), Dota 2 (1.2 mil), and Cyberpunk 2077 (1 mil).”

  • specseaweed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1281·
    11 months ago

    Can’t help but feel like this is the market that exists for anything Pokémon adjacent because Pokémon has sucked ass for like a decade.

    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      11 months ago

      Off the top of my head we’ve had Digimon, Monster Hunter: Stories, Yo-Kai Watch, Dragon Quest Monsters, Cassette Beasts, TemTem, Ooblets and Monster Crown. The only one that really hit it pretty big was TemTem and it was nowhere near the success of this.

      • Caesium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        11 months ago

        temtem screwed up by adding micro transactions. and a paid battle pass. like, I’ve already bought the game and now you want me to spend more money like it’s a f2p piece of junk?

          • Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Whenever I read this title, I wish for a spiritual successor with modernized graphics and animations as well as the same story depth. It was a damn near perfect game and I adored the merging process of monsters for their spells and optics. More of that, please! I loved the various weapon effects, the taming melodies… such a beautiful game.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      Its weird because except for the looks and taming mechanic it has nothing to do with pokemon. But yeah it probably helps to get people interested in the first place.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        11 months ago

        I get that direct comparisons to Pokémon might seem too surface level to someone who has played both. But let’s not beat around the bush: People have been begging GameFreak for something like this for years now. And I don‘t mean the guns, but everything else, really. There‘s a reason so many Pokémon mods are made for these type of games anyway. Really, players couldn‘t have been more obvious about what they wanted all these years.

        • 520@kbin.social
          151·
          11 months ago

          As someone who has not played Palworld but practically swore off mainline Pokémon since Sword and Shield (made an exception for Arceus), I couldn’t agree more with this.

          Now I’ve looked at the Palworld trailer and not only does this look like more than just a Pokémon knock off like Digimon or Yokai Watch, this looks very competently made. Sure the guns might be shock value, but the point is they’re doing more with the concept than the same shit Game freak has been doing since 1996 on the fucking Game Boy. They certainly aren’t relying on that shock value.

          I’m actually tempted to buy Palworld.

          • Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            Played it until 2AM with my girlfriend last night, even though we both fully knew we had work in the morning. This morning is not great, but it was so, so worth it. I can’t remember the last time I had that much fun experiencing a game for the first time–maybe Warhammer II on release. I’d definitely recommend, especially for the price.

            • 520@kbin.social
              2·
              11 months ago

              Ah damn, if only my gf had a gaming PC. I think she’d like this a lot.

        • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Wasn’t there an official branded pokemon dotalike for a while? I mean, they tried the approach of “let’s make a conventional PC genre game but with Pokemon” and it didn’t stick.

          • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            11 months ago

            It was a lazy cash grab. They outsourced it to the same chinese company who‘ve made plenty mobile dota clones before. They dumbed down their usual game and slapped pokemon skins on it. It‘s a fairly awful game.

            Then there‘s PokemonGO which had a rough start quality vise. It was also outsourced but at the very least it was successful and different, though way too simplified for my taste. Of course I‘m one of those conservative gamers who don‘t want to point their camera at virtual things outside so I‘m a little biased I guess.