*Palworld*, also known as "Gun Pokemon," is an action-adventure survival game created by Japanese game developer Pocket Pair. It serves as the company's second open-world survival project following *Craftopia*. If you're a fan of Pokémon, *Palworld* is set to shake up your world in a wild way. **The Palworld Early Access version will be released on January 19, 2024**, for Windows PC, Steam, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Game Pass. Reports suggest that the Early Access period will last for one year. The price for Palworld during the game preview and Early Access is $29.99 (the same for both PC and Xbox).
In Polworld, you got influences from various sources, like the huge open-world adventure of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the base-building aspect of Minecraft, and a hint of Pokémon Legends: Arceus. As a third-person open-world survival game, it lets you craft your own personalized avatar in a third-person view to roam the open-world archipelago of Palpagos.
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To survive, players must manage their hunger meter, craft basic tools, gather resources, and build bases. The most exciting aspect is that they can catch and tame animal-like creatures called “companions,” which assist with base building, movement, and combat, as long as their hunger meters are managed. The game's main antagonists include poachers, criminal syndicates, a companion-liberation movement, and a police-like island-defense force. Players can control their companions and use weapons to fight these enemies in defense of their companions and resources.
Players can adventure with up to three friends or create a private server for up to 32 players (exclusive to Steam). Future updates will include PvP modes, guild raids, and cross-server pet trading. In its first four days of early access, Palworld had over one million concurrent players on Steam, sold over six million copies, and became the second most popular game on the platform.
However, many players have reported issues with the early access version, including crashes on launch, failure to start at all, and disk errors.
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