(Paris) The Palworld video game, dubbed “Pokémon with weapons” by the public, has reached more than 25 million players in a month, PocketPair, the Japanese studio behind its development, announced on Thursday.
Posted at 2:08 p.m.
This survival and fighting game has already sold more than 5 million copies within just three days of its early access release on January 19th on the online gaming platform Steam and on Xbox consoles.
A month later, it is still in the top 5 most played games on Steam, bringing together several hundred thousand players at the same time.
In detail, the studio announced that Palworld has sold 15 million copies on PC and brought together more than 10 million players on Microsoft consoles, where it is available on the Xbox Game subscription service Pass.
For comparison: The game set in the world of Harry Potter Hogwarts Legacy, one of the bestsellers of 2023, was sold around 22 million times throughout the year, according to Warner Bros.
The latest work in the very popular Zelda saga, Tears of the Kingdom, released on May 12th, was sold just over 20 million times in 2023, according to Nintendo.
Palworld mixes weapon-wielding player avatars with monsters that closely resemble those from Nintendo's Pokémon game, to the point that the Pokémon Company announced on January 25 that they were “investigating” possible unauthorized misappropriation of their characters by the Pocketpair studio. become.