Palworld’s meteoric trajectory has seemingly continued following its smashing 1.0 launch on July 10. Nearly two weeks after launch, on July 19, the game reached 961,867 concurrent players reported by SteamDB, the highest figure since the game’s early access launch in 2024, when it clocked just over 2.1 million concurrent players on SteamDB.



I was part of this adoption wave.
During the first hype wave, I felt nervous about their getting the game to a full release.
It’s a great game!
Examined as pokemon game, I rank Palworld somewhere a bit below Dragon Warrior Monsters II, but well above Pokemon Ruby (which itself is great).