Palworld announced for PC (Craftopia devs Pocketpair)

[Shinobido Heart]

Craftopia studio Pocketpair announces multiplayer open-world survival crafting game Palworld for PC

Craftopia studio Pocketpair have announced multiplayer open-world survival crafting game PALWORLD for PC (Steam). It will launch in 2022.

www.gematsu.com

Palworld is a game about living a slow life with mysterious creatures "Pal" or throwing yourself into life-and-death battles with poachers.

You can make Pals fight, breed, help with farming, or work in factories. You can also sell them off or even slaughter them to eat! That however, is forbidden by law.

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So uh, this looks cool, but..what about Craftopia? Craftopia was launched not that long ago on September 4, 2020.

It doesn't feel right to announce a new game while they have another game in Early Access, far from being finished.

Here's their announcement page though: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1307550/view/3058487332664259189

Still, Craftopia has done really well which led to a team expansion, I'm interested but cautious. More info and screenshots at the link.

 

[ILikeFeet]

this trailer is a fucking fever dream

 

[Starlatine]

Notpiplup is my favourite palkemon

 

[PlanetSmasher]

 

[JetstreamRorschach]

■ Survival
- This world is full of dangers such as food shortages, harsh weather, and illegal poachers. You must be prepared to do anything if you want to survive. You may even need to consume Pals sometimes...

■ Building
- Do you want to build a pyramid? You can have a large number of Pals work on the construction. Don't worry; labor laws won't be applied to Pals.

■ Factory and Automation
- It is essential for automation to let Pals do the manual work. Build a factory and place Pals in it. They will work forever as long as they're fed until the end of their lifetime.

■ Dungeon Exploration
- With Pals, you'll be safe in dangerous areas. If you are in danger, you use Pals to cover your escape! They'll give their lives to protect you.

■ Poaching and Crime
- Endangered species Pals live in the hunting prohibited area. If you sneak in and catch them, you'll get tons of money! It's only illegal if you get caught.

Unironically GOTY 2022 contender.

 

[Vamphuntr]

Pokémon with guns MMO with farming and house building.

 

[Remark]

I never say this but I don't know what the fuck I just watched.

 

[808s & Villainy]

I dunno why but the use of firearms just looks so funny and out of place, but the premise is cool.

Also that's a Wooloo

 

[WhiteNovember]

I am confused. And kinda interested.

 

[Avis]

Finally, Pokemon Gun

 

[Starlatine]

■ Survival
- This world is full of dangers such as food shortages, harsh weather, and illegal poachers. You must be prepared to do anything if you want to survive. You may even need to consume Pals sometimes...

■ Building
- Do you want to build a pyramid? You can have a large number of Pals work on the construction. Don't worry; labor laws won't be applied to Pals.

■ Factory and Automation
- It is essential for automation to let Pals do the manual work. Build a factory and place Pals in it. They will work forever as long as they're fed until the end of their lifetime.

■ Dungeon Exploration
- With Pals, you'll be safe in dangerous areas. If you are in danger, you use Pals to cover your escape! They'll give their lives to protect you.

■ Poaching and Crime
- Endangered species Pals live in the hunting prohibited area. If you sneak in and catch them, you'll get tons of money! It's only illegal if you get caught.

Unironically GOTY 2022 contender.

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for people who really like pokemon and really like war crimes

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

This looks really good. Very exciting.

 

[whoamiifnotwhoiam]

Oh my god why are the creatures using guns

 

[TubaZef]

Started watching: "Oh, it's a Pokemon clone"

Suddenly:

 

[PlanetSmasher]

Oh my god why are the creatures using guns

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I feel like you missed the part of the trailer where they were working in a sweatshop assembling those guns.

 

[The Omega Man]

That's a bad Pokémon neighborhood I hope Ash is not around, he is going to get murdered

 

[KDR_11k]

Is it locked to 50FPS?

I tried to get into Craftopia but it felt pretty messy in that free-to-play-MMO way that sees crazy amounts of systems and numbers dumped on you very early. Shortly after that I played Valheim and now I can't bear playing games with hunger meters anymore.

 

[Deleted member 16136]

NTSC excluded ;(

 

[Deleted member 16908]

That's quite the Aloy-adjacent protagonist they have there.

 

[Dinjoralo]

What in the hell is this? Why are there guns with these cutesy critters? Why can you use your little critters as cover? Why is there poaching???

 

[Quinton]

Everyone's up in arms that Nintendo's gonna come after these folks but in reality this is the closest thing to an anime-adjacent Digimon game we've ever seen

 

[Sword Familiar]

Seems pretty good.

 

[Guaraná]

what the fuck did I just see?

 

[Lukar]

Don't think I like being able to use them as cover / shields, nor the hunting stuff.

 

[Glio]

What kind of person thinks it's a good idea to mix a farm sim with Pokemon with fucking realistic guns.

It is tonally repulsive.

 

[Wishbone Ash]

I think this will be a hit. Hope it gets good dev time and launches feature complete though, not sure how they manage Craftopia and this

 

[steviestar3]

This is great

 

[Glio]

■ Survival
- This world is full of dangers such as food shortages, harsh weather, and illegal poachers. You must be prepared to do anything if you want to survive. You may even need to consume Pals sometimes...

■ Building
- Do you want to build a pyramid? You can have a large number of Pals work on the construction. Don't worry; labor laws won't be applied to Pals.

■ Factory and Automation
- It is essential for automation to let Pals do the manual work. Build a factory and place Pals in it. They will work forever as long as they're fed until the end of their lifetime.

■ Dungeon Exploration
- With Pals, you'll be safe in dangerous areas. If you are in danger, you use Pals to cover your escape! They'll give their lives to protect you.

■ Poaching and Crime
- Endangered species Pals live in the hunting prohibited area. If you sneak in and catch them, you'll get tons of money! It's only illegal if you get caught.

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"What if Pokemon but for psychopaths" must have been the pitch.

 

[KatieKatsup]

This looks bonkers in the best way.

 

[Greywaren]

What the fuck is this, it looks all over the place.

 

[Lightjolly]

Pokemon, Farming and guns

 

[ILikeFeet]

pokemon, but taken to the logical extreme

 

[Ikarus]

Is Craftopia done? I thought it was still in early access?

 

[The Gold Hawk]

All y'all whining about Pokemon being too simple and for kids and this is what we get. Vegetable Squirrels making assault rifles.

I hope you're happy.

Legit tho, It looks so dumb that I'm kinda on board.

 

[Antonymous]

This is the war Lt Surge kept talking about.

 

[Perfect Chaos]

"Oh neat, it's like a Pokemon x Stardew Valley!"

- Suddenly, guns.
- Suddenly, the pokemon in sweatshop making guns.

 

[Soul Skater]

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[FormatCompatible]

What the fuck did I just watch. This fucking game is absurd I kinda love it.

 

[Hentz]

There are some straight up Pokémon clone there, specially the wolf, looks like a recolored Lycanroc

 

[Capra]

I mean you can argue that it being tonally repulsive makes it a bad product but you cannot argue that it isn't what they're going for.

On an artistic level I respect that, if only for the trailer. Can't imagine how well it translates to a full game though.

 

[Kouriozan]

Woah, Craftopia is a name I haven't heard in ages.
Not fan of shooters but it seems charming.

 

[Nikus]

Forget BotW 2. This is what I need.

 

[GuitarGuruu]

So are they leaving Craftopia behind for this project?

 

[Kalor]

They've certainly refined the art of trailers that just continually escalate. Craftopia was the same.

 

[Glio]

I mean you can argue that it being tonally repulsive makes it a bad product but you cannot argue that it isn't what they're going for.

On an artistic level I respect that, if only for the trailer. Can't imagine how well it translates to a full game though.

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Just because you can made a game about enslaving mons to make M14 doesn't mean you should.

 

[Nikus]

For those who missed their previous game:

 

[spam musubi]

Don't think I like being able to use them as cover / shields, nor the hunting stuff.

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Honestly, that's more normal than capturing Pokémon and forcing them to live life in a pokeball (though this game likely has a similar system)

 

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Throw everything and the kitchen sink into a game (half baked)? - sounds like Craftopia

 

[Mudo]

Uhh Craftopia is still VERY early access with big patches coming only once every 2 months nowadays. This is why I have not yet bought that game. The core seems fun but apparently this dev is known to leave games unfinished and move on (this is at least what ppl on Steam forum are saying).

Which sucks because both Craftopia and this sound insane but fun, but I can't support then if they aren't going to focus on finishing their current EA that is far from release state, before starting up yet another.

Guess I'll continue to wait. Hopefully Craftopia dev remains at least as active as it is right now

 

[Starlatine]

This is the war Lt Surge kept talking about.

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and thats why we dont know any of these pokemon
they're all dead. either worked till collapse or used as pokeshields