“Palworld is now one of only seven games that have seen over 1 million concurrent players on Steam – the others include: PUBG (3.2 mil), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (1.8 mil), Counter-Strike 2 (1.4 mil), Lost Ark (1.3 mil), Dota 2 (1.2 mil), and Cyberpunk 2077 (1 mil).”

  • specseaweed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1171·
    1 year ago

    Can’t help but feel like this is the market that exists for anything Pokémon adjacent because Pokémon has sucked ass for like a decade.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      Its weird because except for the looks and taming mechanic it has nothing to do with pokemon. But yeah it probably helps to get people interested in the first place.

    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Off the top of my head we’ve had Digimon, Monster Hunter: Stories, Yo-Kai Watch, Dragon Quest Monsters, Cassette Beasts, TemTem, Ooblets and Monster Crown. The only one that really hit it pretty big was TemTem and it was nowhere near the success of this.

      • Caesium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        temtem screwed up by adding micro transactions. and a paid battle pass. like, I’ve already bought the game and now you want me to spend more money like it’s a f2p piece of junk?