There seems to be absolutely no stopping Palworld. It just keeps on growing and pulling in more players with its enticing theme of Pokémon with guns and crafting.
Around two hours ago it hit a new record high of 1,582,482, making it jump above Counter-Strike 2 to take the current top spot for most-played on Steam right now. That's incredibly impressive! Thanks to it now hitting 5 million sales in 3 days, this concurrent player count is also the third highest on Steam ever!
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I wouldn't be surprised if it took second place on highest concurrent players ever in the next 24 hours. At the rate it has been increasing, it's pretty much a given at this point. But dethroning PUBG would take more than double what they have right now but never say never right?
The game was bound to be popular — but as much as this? I didn't have that on my 2024 bingo card.
My Steam Deck video on Palworld is below if you missed the update to the previous article:
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Have you been playing it? What do you think to Palworld? Let me know in the article comments below. I'm really hoping they add in some UI and Text scaling, it's too small on Steam Deck but just fine on Linux desktop. On Steam Deck it uses Proton Experimental by default and is rated Playable. On Desktop Linux is also works great.
Additionally for people who want to run a Palworld server, the open source tool LinuxGSM (Linux Game Server Manager) just launched version 24.1.0 with Palworld support.
You can buy Palworld on Steam.
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I hope that they eventually support fully offline play, as you currently have to launch the game connected to the internet.
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I hope that they eventually support fully offline play, as you currently have to launch the game connected to the internet.You don't. Valve's notice on the Steam Deck certification is wrong. It plays just fine offline solo.
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Have you been playing it? What do you think to Palworld? Let me know in the article comments below.It's not my sort of game so I won't be picking it up, but I'm glad to see it doing well. It's fair to say that the leading brand has become quite complacent in recent years, so it's nice to see a competitor like this finding a big audience so quickly - competition and options are good!
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I hope that they eventually support fully offline play, as you currently have to launch the game connected to the internet.You don't. Valve's notice on the Steam Deck certification is wrong. It plays just fine offline solo.
I heard reports from people saying that running the game offline (as in no internet connection) will cause the game to not boot, but once the game starts you could play offline. Has that changed?
Not being able to boot the game offline makes the game much less appealing, especially on a steam deck.
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I heard reports from people saying that running the game offline (as in no internet connection) will cause the game to not boot, but once the game starts you could play offline. Has that changed?That has not been the case in my testing. Plays fine. Gives 2 or so errors in-game which you skip, as the errors are about multiplayer. Solo offline works fine.
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I heard reports from people saying that running the game offline (as in no internet connection) will cause the game to not boot, but once the game starts you could play offline. Has that changed?That has not been the case in my testing. Plays fine. Gives 2 or so errors in-game which you skip, as the errors are about multiplayer. Solo offline works fine.
Ah gotcha, thanks! I'll probably give it a go soon then
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Gives 2 or so errors in-game which you skip, as the errors are about multiplayer. Solo offline works fine.
Ka-Ching you've been tricked.
Sneakily you've been an advanced user all along.
We knew it.
You consider something working well offline if the "errors are about multi-player".
This means you can see the difference between different kinds of error messages know multi-player is online and know that not every error is destruction of your play time.
The fact that you consider it fine means that you've experienced similar issues before.
Last edited by LoudTechie on 22 Jan 2024 at 5:06 pm UTC
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It looks interesting, but I feel like the absurd hype will only make me enjoy it less. Once the hype dies down I'll check it out. 
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Don't be ridiculous. Every Windows user knows that when mysterious error message boxes pop up, you click on the "go away" button because very few of them matter. I'm sure that habit carries over to games.Gives 2 or so errors in-game which you skip, as the errors are about multiplayer. Solo offline works fine.
Ka-Ching you've been tricked.
Sneakily you've been an advanced user all along.
We knew it.
You consider something working well offline if the "errors are about multi-player".
This means you can see the difference between different kinds of error messages know multi-player is online and know that not every error is destruction of your play time.
The fact that you consider it fine means that you've experienced similar issues before.
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...what?I attempted to humorously indicate that your definition of "works fine" might not be shared with the people Valve is writing that blog post to.
Error messages can be really scary to users who don't understand the device they're using.
To these people any error message is "doesn't work"
That having said, I understand this was aimed at your conversation partner who you might have known has a more matching definition.
Last edited by LoudTechie on 22 Jan 2024 at 6:05 pm UTC
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I'm more baffled by the fact PUBG still has half a million daily players. 
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Dana Souly 22 Jan 2024
Is it more like Valheim or like PUBG?
First game i like very much, last game is not my type of tea.
First game i like very much, last game is not my type of tea.
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Is it more like Valheim or like PUBG?
First game i like very much, last game is not my type of tea.
As I understand it, it's more like Ark, but without dinosaurs and somewhat better optimized.
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TheRiddick 22 Jan 2024
On the Steam Deck this gets 25-40fps, hopefully that can be improved. Be nice if the developer made a config preset in-game to toggle SD optimizations.
In saying all that, this isn't my type of game but it is clearly the meta everyone is playing atm (except pokemon fans, they are angry as always)
In saying all that, this isn't my type of game but it is clearly the meta everyone is playing atm (except pokemon fans, they are angry as always)
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redneckdrow 23 Jan 2024
After watching Quill18 play this for three hours, I bit the bullet, despite my post-holiday budget being tight.
My name for the game:
Skymon: Personal Mining, Breath of the RimFactorio Saga
My name for the game:
Skymon: Personal Mining, Breath of the RimFactorio Saga
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(except pokemon fans, they are angry as always)Some are even going as far as to claim that some of the models in Palworld are minor edits of ones ripped from Pokemon titles. No clue as to how true that is, but I found it interesting seeing how different the reactions are within the Nintendo fandom as compared to outside of it.
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officernice 23 Jan 2024
After watching Quill18 play this for three hours, I bit the bullet, despite my post-holiday budget being tight.
My name for the game:
Skymon: Personal Mining, Breath of the RimFactorio Saga
Ahhh good old Quill18. I guess I should go see how he's doing. ;)
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redneckdrow 26 Jan 2024
After watching Quill18 play this for three hours, I bit the bullet, despite my post-holiday budget being tight.
My name for the game:
Skymon: Personal Mining, Breath of the RimFactorio Saga
Ahhh good old Quill18. I guess I should go see how he's doing. ;)
What could possibly go wrong? :D
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officernice 27 Jan 2024
After watching Quill18 play this for three hours, I bit the bullet, despite my post-holiday budget being tight.
My name for the game:
Skymon: Personal Mining, Breath of the RimFactorio Saga
Ahhh good old Quill18. I guess I should go see how he's doing. ;)
What could possibly go wrong? :D
Exactly, fellow Archer. :D Hope you'll have a great weekend.
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