A game filled with Pokemon-like creatures, exploration, combat, and survival | Gameplay - Palworld

Palworld's ‘Pokémon with guns’ tagline couldn’t be more further than the truth, because the game is actually way more than that. The game is more of a mash-up of popular open-world titles like Pokemon, Ark: Survival, Factorio, Zelda: Breath of Wild and more, creating a hybrid experience that feels both familiar but in some respect silly innovative.

Pokemon + Guns? Not really, it’s more of a Pokemon + Ark Survival + more | Early Access - Palworld

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The gameplay loop involves attending to basic needs, capturing Pals, attending to their basic needs and building a base. The game is basically open-ended and has no clear goal aside from capturing more powerful Pals, further progressing in the technology tree, improving your base, and getting better items.

Players navigate a technology tree by leveling up, unlocking new structures and items, with later tiers granting access to features like Pal breeding farms and assembly lines. The open-world exploration is filled with encounters with both wild Pals — bosses, regular, and rare pals alike, hostile human factions, and friendly traders and settlements. There are dungeons you can visit, boss fights you can challenge (and capture), and new frontiers to explore and build bases on.

This is actually one of the only survival crafting sandbox games for me where its actually fun playing alone and its not really a soft requirement to need friends to play with. Because the Pals essentially make your base lively and populates it with living, breathing creatures, and you’ll usually only get in pure multiplayer games.