Content area
Full text
Publication: Hilltop News, , St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
Is it fun? Yes. Is it inventive? Not really. Are people talking about it? Oh yeah. Let‘s get into it.
If you’ve had even a brush with the gaming sphere recently, it is likely you have heard of Palworld. It sold over seven million copies within the first five days of its release and has become one of the most played games in the PC platform Steam’s history.
Colloquially known to internet dwellers as ’pokémon with guns,‘ Palworld is an open world multiplayer survival game with a powerful crafting system and 137 pals for you to find, fight and capture. With this in mind, it is easy to see why such a game has become so popular seemingly overnight. Palworld swept digital stores and pushed AAA titles, such as Activision‘s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III, to the side on release. But why is Palworld so popular?
In my opinion, the success is because Palworld is just fun. Not novel, not super pretty looking...