
Palworld is seemingly still aiming to release this year on Steam. That's my only dadtake for tonight, I promise. Because while PalWorld looks ridiculous and I can appreciate that, actual Pokémon has a bit of magic to it for kids which is mostly or entirely inaccessible to adults.Īnyway. Now those pieces of children's media are inextricably linked to the sincere and pure joy they bring my actual child, and suddenly all these edgelord parodies of Peppa Pig and Pixar movies and Pokémon make me feel - just a little bit! - sad. I know it sounds ridiculous, but there was a time when I could enjoy mashups of children's media with grownup themes with a degree of ironic detachment, as intended. These games might aim to have everything and then some, but that doesn't mean they'll accomplish it - or that what they do include will be polished. Craftopia, it should be said, remains in Steam Early Access, with 'mixed' recent reviews from plenty of players who feel frustrated that the game remains unfinished while Pocketpair plow ahead with Palworld.

Palworld is being developed by Pocketpair, who previously worked on the similarly expansive Craftopia and similarly maximalist tower defense game Overdungeon. And by "crafting" I mean you can build a garden or a spaceship or a pyramid.

Palworld has monster collecting and machineguns, sure, but also crafting and cooking and an open world and multiplayer.

As daft as that opening paragraph probably made Palworld sound, it doesn't even entirely capture everything that it's got going on.
