What is Palworld?

Palworld is an open-world survival game where you capture and tame creatures known as Pals. If you've ever played Pokemon, the concept will feel familiar, but what sets Palworld apart is the addition of guns, base building, and the fact that you can put your Pals to work, fight alongside them, or eat them if times get tough. The game sold over 25 million copies within its first month of Early Access, making it one of the biggest launches in Steam history.

The game is developed by Pocketpair and is still in Early Access, with regular updates adding new Pals, biomes, and features. It has a lot more to offer than a typical creature collector; there's crafting, base automation, boss fights, dungeon raids, and a full survival loop on top of the catching mechanics.

Multiplayer

Our Palworld servers come with crossplay support enabled out of the box, so you can start playing regardless of what platform you're joining from. PC, PlayStation, and Xbox players can all join the same world together, no setup required. On top of this, we make it easy to manage and customize your server. Palworld has one of the most configurable server settings of any game, from our game hosting control panel you can change spawn rates, catch rates, damage multipliers, egg hatching speeds, day/night cycles, worker speeds and much more. You'll also get an expert human support team (including live chat), ready to help when you run into trouble or have general questions.

Pals

As you explore the world of Palworld, you'll quickly find yourself surrounded by creatures known as 'Pals'. These companions come in all shapes and sizes, each with their own element type, abilities, and personality. To capture Pals, you need to weaken them in combat first, then throw a Pal Sphere at them. Rarer and more powerful Pals need higher-quality spheres and better timing to catch successfully.

Pals aren't just for fighting though. Every Pal has Work Suitability traits that make them useful around your base. Some are good at kindling fires, others at watering crops, mining ore, generating electricity, transporting materials, or crafting at workbenches. A well-built base with the right mix of Pals essentially runs itself while you're out exploring. Some of the more popular Pals include Lamball, a fluffy sheep you'll likely tame first, Foxparks, a fire fox you can hold and use as a flamethrower, Anubis, a powerful ground-type that's useful in combat and crafting, and Jetragon, a legendary dragon Pal that most players spend hours hunting down.

Building and Automation

To build a base in Palworld, you place down a Palbox, build workbenches and structures around it, and assign your Pals to do the work, essentially, you're making your own little village. Each Pal has traits that make it suited to certain jobs: fire Pals can run furnaces to smelt ore into ingots, water Pals can keep crops and berries going, and stronger Pals can mine stone, ore, and wood. Instead of gathering and crafting everything yourself like most survival games, your Pals handle the labour while you're out exploring. A well-staffed base pretty much runs itself.