Palworld smashes records to place in Steam\u2019s top 10 highest concurrently played games Pocket PairJust when it seemed like Palworld couldn\u2019t get any bigger, the game has broken yet another record. Beating Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, Elden Ring, and Hogwarts Legacy to become Steam\u2019s 7th highest concurrently played game of all time. Palworld has captivated players worldwide with its adorable \u201cPals\u201d and lethal spin on gameplay. Over the last few days, social media has been saturated with clips and comments as fans share their thoughts, hilarious game glitches, and more. Sales of the game have been skyrocketing too, with two million copies sold. The game\u2019s been so unexpectedly popular it even required an emergency meeting with Epic to deal with the surge of players. Now, Palworld developers, Pocketpair, can add yet another accolade to their list of impressive achievements this weekend. According to YouTuber Benji Sales, Palworld\u2019s concurrent players have now overtaken records set by Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, 2023\u2019s Game of the Year. It\u2019s also left Hogwarts Legacy and Elden Ring behind now too. After crossing the 900,000 concurrent players threshold, Palworld is sitting in the 7th spot on Steam\u2019s most concurrently played games of all time. No mean feat for a game that\u2019s only been available in early access since January 19. As industry veteran, Mat Piscatella, amusingly pointed out, if it continues its \u201ccurrent player count growth rate\u201d Palworld \u201cwill have been played by every human on Earth at hour 267 of distribution.\u201d Although it isn\u2019t likely every person on Earth is going to play Palworld by the end of this weekend, or at all, there\u2019s no arguing the game is attracting a staggering number of players. The game\u2019s meteoric rise has already broken numerous records, including selling over a million copies in its first eight hours of release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Palworld smashes records to place in Steam\u2019s top 10 highest concurrently played games Pocket PairJust when it seemed like Palworld couldn\u2019t get any bigger, the game has broken yet another record. Beating Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, Elden Ring, and Hogwarts Legacy to become Steam\u2019s 7th highest concurrently played game of all time. Palworld has captivated players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}