Last January, Palworld celebrated its first anniversary. But Pocketpair isn’t resting on its laurels, as there’s a big update on the horizon with cross-play coming soon enough.
Before that, at GDC 2025, currently taking place in San Francisco, the studio looked back on the success of its game. John Buckley, who is in charge of the new publishing arm of Pocketpair Publishing, spoke about Palworld‘s amazing track record.
"But we quickly got over a million wishlists within that first year, so we knew at that point that something was happening. It kept going."
"2023 was when things got really weird: we rose to number three on Steam wishlists […] and then we hit this crazy peak around November 2023. This peak never really stopped, it just kept going. People always ask us, ‘Why? What happened? How did you get so much attention?’ We don’t know. If we knew how to do it, we’d do it again, but we have no idea what happened."
"Within that first week, we hit this disgusting number that makes me feel sick when I see it."
"Again, why did we get this many players? I don’t know, please don’t ask me. I know someone will ask me after, but I promise you we don’t know the answer."
