Hello. I gathered you all here to tell you that water is wet. In other – perhaps equally obvious – news,Palworldcontinues to attract more players than some countries have citizens. As of this week, more than 25 million people have played Pocketpair’s monster-catching survival game.
That’s according to developer Pocketpair, who posted about the milestone achievement onTwitter/X recently. A simple breakdown of the figures suggests that 15 million of these players are from Steam, while the remaining 10 million are Xbox users. While folks on Steam have to buy a copy to join in,Palworld’s Xbox figures include some combination of players hopping in via Game Pass or buying the game through the Xbox storefront.
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To put that into some perspective,Bethesdaboasted that 13 million players took to the stars inStarfieldas of December 2023. No doubt this number has increased since then, but seeing the likes ofPalworldachieve 12 million more than this in just a month’s timing is pretty astonishing when you think about it.
It’s time to make way
Sadly, this can’t really go on forever. While it will undoubtedly continue to sell phenomenally well, the gaming world may be starting to move on after a long month of Pokemon-with-guns. There’s a point where everyone’s bought it, played it, andtake a breakwhile waiting for the next update.
At the time of writing,Palworldis number 20 onSteam’s Top Sellerslist. This represents a pretty hefty fall of 15 places.SteamDBhad it down as being third on the list as of February 20. I don’t recall it being that high a few days ago, but I distinctly remember it being at least in the top eight about a week ago.
In any case, this is just an inevitability. With the likes ofHelldivers 2being at the number one spot (even knocking the Steam Deck down) and new releases such asNightingaleand the upcoming launch of theElden RingDLC,Palworldwill continue to drop. Well, until the full release. Probably.
