Palworld News

'We won't see another game reach these heights until probably GTA 6': Palworld community manager congratulates Black Myth: Wukong for its continued success

Black Myth: Wukong has achieved considerable success since its release. In less than a day, it smashed Palworld's and Counter-Strike 2's concurrent players' records to become the second most-played Steam game ever. And despite leaving Palworld in the dust, the game's community manager doesn't seem to mind at all...
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Black Myth: Wukong is currently Steam's most played game as it continues to break records

As I write this, Black Myth: Wukong, the action adventure from China’s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam’s top five.

Wukong’s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being Steam’s number one seller for several weeks, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game.

There's been an increased desire, it seems, to highlight the concurrent users of formerly mega-popular games like Palworld and Helldivers 2, see a line going down on a graph, and decree them dead and buried...
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Update v0.3.5: Notification frequency reduced and bug fixes

Palworld version v0.3.5 has been released!

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▼Base Fixes
・The frequency of notifications for Pals stuck in the base was too high, so we have suppressed them
⤷ Notifications are now only displayed when the player is within the range of the base where the incident is occurring
⤷ Notifications for problems related to natural objects like rocks and trees will no longer be shown
・In some cases where a working pal is stuck, they will now work remotely from where they are standing

▼Bug Fixes
・Fixed a problem where pillars could not be built underwater
・Fixed a problem where the oil rig turrets were desyncing in multiplayer

▼Text
・Fixed a bug where simplified characters were mixed into the traditional Chinese translation
・Other minor text related bugs fixed

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Thank you for your continued support of Palworld

The follow-up to Palworld could go 'beyond AAA', but Pocketpair's CEO only wants to pursue projects that 'are interesting as indie games'

Palworld's explosive success earlier this year made developer Pocketpair heaps of money, but its CEO would rather make an indie-sized game over something that could "go beyond AAA."..
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