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Palworld continues to be the surprise hit of 2024 with its latest announcement of seven million copies sold in five days.
Previously, developer Pocketpair announced that the title — an open world survival online game described by fans as “Pokémon with guns” — had sold more than five million copies in three days.
The game launched on January 19 and rose to the top of Steam’s best-selling games list. It has moved to No. 2 on the all-time concurrent players leaderboard on Steam, behind only PUBG. The game is also available on the Windows PC via Game Pass and Xbox.
It’s an open world survival crafting game for up to 32 players and has more than 100 types of pals. You capture, train, battle or put your creatures to work. The game had some outages over the weekend due to the demand, and Pocketpair met with Epic Games to resolve issues.
Pocketpair worked on the game for more than three years, and it turns out that it has a pretty deep survival game. You start out punching cute ball-shaped chickens with your bare hands and eventually graduate to much better weapons.
