It’s an open-world multiplayer survival game with crafting and the ability to capture animals.
But does it combine all of these elements effectively?
However, it does need a bit of polish before its full launch.
A player is about to throw a Pal Sphere to capture a Pal in Palworld.
Disclaimer:This review was conducted on PC after purchasing the early access version of the game on Steam.
Developer Pocketpair did not see the contents of this review before publishing.
We will update this review with a rating when the full game launches.
Thankfully, Palworld does everything that I had hoped a Pokemon game would have done at this point.
But Palworld isn’t forgiving.
If no one revives you, you drop everything you’re holding.
It adds a more dire, calculated, and challenging aspect to the game.
But you have to be careful about who you try and capture.
Wild Pals that are much higher level than you will be harder to catch.
Certain combinations of Pals can even create rare Fusion Pals.
It’s yet another fun way to interact with the creatures you’ve caught.
Whether you’re comfortable with it or not, Palworld also has no qualms with players catching human NPCs.
This process also allows you to bring merchants back to your base.
Whether you’re comfortable with it or not, Palworld has no qualms with players catching human NPCs.
But it’s not all work, work, work after capturing Pals.
You have to provide facilities back at your camp, or else your Pals will get overburdened.
If someone falls ill, I need to do what I can to get them feeling 100% again.
Additionally, there is currently no way to move something that you’ve built.
A player is about to throw a Pal Sphere to capture a Pal in Palworld.
Hopefully, the building process gets refined as time goes on.
Hopefully, in the future, voice chat will be added.
This really needs to be fixed as soon as possible.
Whenever you throw a Pal Sphere, you can see how likely it is for you to capture the creature by looking at the Capture Rate percentage.
Palworld currently doesn’t support in-game voice chat.
We go on wild Pal boss raids together.
We take turns throwing Pal Spheres at powerful Pals we’ve weakened until one of us catches it.
Palworld’s Black Marketeers buy and sell both Pals and human NPCs.
Even when we go exploring in different locations, we alert each other of anything useful we come across.
There have been times when I fell through the floor and either died or spawned back at base.
This even happened to me once when I was in a boss fight.
Up to 32 players can join a Palworld server.
Additionally, some Pals like Rushoar glitch out by vibrating up and down rather than walking.
In another instance, my character rode one of my Pal mounts backward.
Some of these glitches are simply humorous, while others are very frustrating.
But even so, the game is still far more playable than some other games that have launched recently.
Palworld: Should you buy it?
So jump on in and see what the excitement is all about.
My friends and I defeated the Level 23 Bushi boss in Palworld.
While exploring, I can fly on certain Pals in Palworld.
There are over 100 Pals to catch in Palworld.
