Early Access: Palworld | 1.0 Release for 2026

[Mr EliteL]

Yeesh they went for the flying mechanic as well? Man that sucks, like you said other games have done that too.

Kinda curious whether the changes have affected the number of players actively playing, I assume the player base has dropped naturally overtime but maybe a bit more drastically than it would without Pokémon interfering.

[Moonface]

I wouldn't be surprised if the changes just make people choose to play this game more because of being reminded about it from the Nintendo lawsuit stuff coming up in the news cycle on an almost monthly basis, and then I'm sure there's people who will be motivated to play the game not just because they enjoy it but also out of spite to Nintendo and to show support to this game more.

Speaking of the news cycle, not that it involves Nintendo this time but I did not expect to see this game doing a collaboration with Terraria for their next update launching this summer: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/...5533786079

[Moonface]

Palworld | 1.0 Release, Pocketpair and The Future
Palworld will finally be leaving Early Access and officially releasing with Version 1.0 in 2026! A video announced the news, along with plans for the game for the rest of 2025 and beyond.

• Although the release of Version 1.0 will add new content, there is also a lot of cleanup that needs to be done.
  
• The plan is to spend the remainder of 2025 working on the cleanup, which means things will be quieter from the developers for the rest of the year.
  
• It also means the Winter update will be smaller than Feybreak was.
  
• A truly massive amount of content is planned for the 1.0 update. Sneak peaks at some of this content will be coming in the future.
  

[queenzelda]

Huh, maybe I should start a new Palworld playthrough since it's been forever since I last played it. I can also check on my og file to see what's changed too. So, there are options.