{"id":86482,"date":"2026-07-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86482"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:38:00","slug":"palworld-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86482","title":{"rendered":"Palworld Review"},"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>. Two years later, with more than 160 hours spent in its 1.0 update catching colorful Pals and battling massive endgame bosses, I\u2019m happy to report that it\u2019s improved in almost all of the ways I hoped it would. The worst of the technical rough edges have been smoothed over, progression has been smartly streamlined, and loads of missing bits and baubles have been added. There are still plenty of parts that feel like they never got the attention they deserved during Early Access \u2013 most areas are largely empty, settlements can feel downright lifeless, and base building is still fairly janky on its best day. But on the whole, Palworld is more compelling than it\u2019s ever been, and something I\u2019d highly recommend for those with a taste for both creature collectors and tree-punching survival games alike.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never played Palworld before, there\u2019s very little I can say<\/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. Two years later,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":86484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86482","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\/86482"}],"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=86482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86486,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86482\/revisions\/86486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}