Hours after its debut on Steam Early Access, Pocketpair announced that Palworld downloads already passed one million on social media. The game debuted on January 18, 2024 on PCs via Steam and the Xbox One and Xbox Series X.
Here’s the official announcement, which included a piece of celebratory art with a number of Pals. The developer noted it only took about eight hours for it to reach that milestone.
In addition to the downloads milestone, a quick check on SteamDB as of 12pm ET on January 19, 2024 showed Palworld is the third most-played title on Steam at the moment. Its current concurrents at the time of writing were 362,396, with the all-time peak noted as being 370,128. It was just below Counterstrike 2 and DOTA 2, but ended up beating out titles like PUBG, Apex Legends, GTA V, and Baldur’s Gate 3.
However, it is also important to note that people may encounter some bugs in these early hours and days. The title is in early access. For example, due to the unexpected demand, there is server instability that Pocketpair said it will address. It is also releasing patches and hotfixes as necessary, with the first one fixing an issue that would result in a black screen appearing and the game being unplayable.
Palworld is available in Early Access on PCs via Steam and the Xbox One and Series X.
