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So, back in 2021 when my videos were even worse then they are now, I made a quick little video about a game that had received some publicity from a couple articles that mentioned the comedy of combining a certain other franchise that I won’t mention just quite yet, and. While a lot of the coverage surrounding this game was predictably about the comedy of starting up sweat shops in a survival game with cute little creatures, I decided to actually look at the developer’s track record of games made up to this point. Considering their previous track record was an abandoned card game with middling reviews, and an abandoned early access game that shared shocking similarities among assets and trailers with Palworld, I took it as a sign that this early access game was going to release as a buggy, broken, mess. Regardless, I would buy it day one, because of course I was going to.

In the time between my video and the year 2024, a lot of things happened, namely Palworld getting delayed from 2022 to 2024. In that time the developer seemingly changed quite a bit from what the trailer initially showed, from overhauling the cartoonish look of the world, to adding a lot more pals and fleshing out the systems in which they interact with the world. Come the beginning of this year, I remembered Palworld was set for release, and I prepared to play it and record it, expecting a mess of a game like I had described earlier. Suddenly, the gaming community was inundated with news about Palworld from people who had gotten early access codes, talking about the game and hyping people up for it. And then the game released, and sold a million copies in no time, then 2 million, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7 ,8, NINETEEN MILLION PEOPLE HAD PURCHASED OR PLAYED THIS GAME. This game set records for concurrent player counts on Steam, and nearly dethroned PUBG for the concurrent player count record.

Nearly overnight this indie game boasted sales numbers that rivaled the franchise it was seemingly parodying. When it comes to other monstercatching games, no one had truly come this close to Pokemon.