Palworld was in development for around four-and-a-half years prior to its launch into version 1.0 last month on July 10th. Prior to Palworld, the studio had around 20 to 25 staff and worked on games such as 2019’s Overdungeon and 2020’s Craftopia. At launch, Palworld had the third highest peak on Steam of all time at 2.1m players. Launching version 1.0Over the next two years, Palworld shipped six major updates that were “very successful” for the game. With the launch of Palworld 1.0 on July 10th, 2026, version 1.0 attracted 900,000 concurrent players and achieved a 93.45% rating from 443k reviews.