PocketPair’s Palworld – a game that the internet dubbed ‘Pokemon with guns’ ahead of its early access release in January – has been a huge success for both the developer and Xbox.
Xbox has celebrated a “fast start” to 2024, revealing that January was actually its “biggest month ever on console” in terms of play time.
In an blog post detailing Xbox’s efforts to support independent developers, Microsoft highlighted Palworld as a key reason for this record, and stated Palworld has had more than 10,000,000 players on consoles so far.
Back in January, Microsoft announced Palworld had had the biggest third-party launch in Game Pass’ history. Meanwhile, on Steam, Palword saw two million concurrent players recorded, making it only the second game ever to manage this, the other being PUBG.