Palworld is now the sixth recreation to ever hit greater than 1,000,000 concurrent gamers on Steam.
Palworld – described as “Pokémon with weapons” – has been breaking data left and proper all weekend, and it has now offered greater than 4 million copies because it launched in early entry on Friday on Steam and Xbox Collection X/S.
All weekend, the monster-collecting survival recreation has been climbing the charts, and never solely is it now Steam’s hottest recreation all weekend – with a 1.2m concurrent gamers peak within the final 24 hours alone (that is extra simultaneous gamers than PUBG, Counter-Strike 2, and Dota 2) – it has additionally surpassed the concurrent data for video games like Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Elden Ring.
And even with a server outage that is stopping gamers from leaping on in co-op, proper now, Palworld sits simply 4000 gamers shy of Dota 2’s concurrent peak of 1,295,114 gamers.
Maybe unsurprisingly, then, Palworld’s co-op servers have been somewhat spotty at present, and on the time of writing, are nonetheless down. Yesterday, developer Pocketpair defined on social media that when Palworld exceeded 700,000 concurrent gamers, it needed to maintain “an emergency assembly” with Epic Video games to “add an replace to the Epic On-line Companies”, and earlier at present, the workforce stated the servers are “at present experiencing outages on account of an unusually excessive load worldwide” as soon as once more.
ICYMI, Pocketpair just lately suggested gamers to not use the in-game merchandise “Reminiscence Reset Drug” as it might trigger a bug that’s “unimaginable to get well” from.
Proper now, gamers who use the “Reminiscence Reset Drug” may even see a everlasting discount of their seize energy, and while the event workforce says it’s investigating the difficulty, it suggests gamers “please chorus from utilizing it till the investigation/correction is full”.
Because the multiplayer monster-collecting recreation continues to clock up staggering sale numbers and break its personal concurrent participant data over and over, some much less enthused Pokémon followers have taken to social media to share simply how related they suppose Palworld is to Pokémon.