🦖Palworld

Monster-taming survival with ethical concerns you should probably ignore.

8.4 / 10

1–32 players

🔨Survival + Craft💥Chaos

Players

1–32

Released

Jul 9, 2026

Developer

Pocketpair

Price

$20.99 (−30%)

Multi-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support

Catch Pals, put them to work in your factory, arm them with guns, raid the neighboring base. Whatever genre tag you pick is wrong. Extremely horizontal for co-op groups.

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Q. What kind of game is this? A. In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fight, or they can be made to work on farms or factories. You can even sell them or eat them! Survival In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices...even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes. Mounts & Exploration Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world. Building Structures Want to build a pyramid? Put an army of Pals on the job. Don't worry; there are no labor laws for Pals. Production Make use of Pals and their skills to make fire, generate electricity, or mine ore so that you can live a life of comfort. Farming Some Pals are good at planting seeds, while others are skilled at watering or harvesting crops. Work together with your Pals to create an idyllic farmstead. Factories & Automation Letting Pals do the work is the key to automation. Build a factory, place a Pal in it, and they'll keep working as long as they're fed—until they're dead, that is. Dungeon Exploration With Pals on your side you can tackle even the most dangerous areas. When the time comes, you might have to sacrifice one to save your skin. They'll protect your life—even if it costs their own. Breeding & Genetics Breed a Pal and it will inherit the characteristics of its parents. Combine rare pals to create the strongest Pal of them all! Poaching & Crime Endangered Pals live in wildlife sanctuaries. Sneak in and capture rare Pals to get rich quick! It's not a crime if you don't get caught, after all. Multiplayer Multiplayer is supported, so invite a friend and go on an adventure together! And of course you can battle your friends and trade Pals, too. In online co-op play mode, up to 4 players can play together. Additionally, a dedicated server can allow up to 32 players to play together.

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Quickstart

How to actually play this with friends — written by Claude.

## Set it up - Install via Steam; host a co-op world from the main menu, or spin up a dedicated server if your group wants to log on independently - Grab Palworld Server Tools from Nexus once you're running a dedicated server — admin commands and slot management get tedious without it - Vanilla already supports up to 32 players, so don't bother hunting for a cap-raising mod unless you're doing something unusual

## Your first session - Catch a handful of early Pals immediately and put them to work on base chores — logging, mining, farming — before anything else - Split the group: someone builds the base layout, someone explores for better catch targets, someone starts the ranching loop - Don't skip the Pal Sphere crafting upgrade path early; better spheres are the single biggest catch-rate improvement you'll get

## Group size advice - Shines with 4-8 — enough hands to split base duty, hunting, and raiding without anyone standing idle - Scales all the way to 32 on a dedicated server for a genuinely sprawling factory-survival session - Even 2 players works fine solo-hosted; Pals cover a lot of the labor gap