{"id":85675,"date":"2026-07-09T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85675"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:53:47","slug":"palworld-review-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85675","title":{"rendered":"Palworld Review So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before Palworld\u2019s Early Access debut in 2024, I remember eagerly wanting to review the completely unhinged-looking \u201cPokemon with guns\u201d game, mostly as a joke. Hilariously, the joke was on me when it not only became one of the biggest games of the year, but also one of my all-time favorite survival games<\/a>. With its 1.0 update now finally at-hand over two years later, I was quite excited to jump back into this strange, sometimes-oddly-dark creature collector. Though I\u2019m only a dozen hours into a fresh playthrough of the 1.0 version, so far it has improved in all the ways I hoped it would after sinking so much time into its earliest incarnation. Most of the technical rough edges have been smoothed over, progression has been smartly streamlined, and loads of missing bits and baubles have been added, like a fully realized story with NPCs to chat with and quest lines to complete \u2013 not to mention a proper ending to that story, which I am hungry to reach before I put a final score on this review.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never played Palworld before, then there\u2019s very little I can say to prepare you for this completely bizarre adventure. You\u2019ll recruit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Palworld\u2019s Early Access debut in 2024, I remember eagerly wanting to review the completely unhinged-looking \u201cPokemon with guns\u201d game, mostly as a joke. Hilariously, the joke was on me when it not only became one of the biggest games of the year, but also one of my all-time favorite survival games. With its 1.0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":85677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85679,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85675\/revisions\/85679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}