The indie hit you forgot just crossed 32 million players, crushing several 2024 AAA games
Last year was an indie year, but no game proves that better than Palworld, whose developers announced that the game amassed over 32 million players in its first year on the market. This places the indie title way above several AAA releases, proving massive budgets aren’t the key to success.
Pocketpair, the developer behind this indie smash hit, announced this colossal milestone on X on Feb. 19, Palworld‘s first birthday. Having launched in January 2024, the game has since pulled in over 32 million players across all platforms, cementing itself in the gaming hall of fame both in terms of popularity and quality. It’s also the third-most played game on Steam of all time, only trailing behind PUBG, which paved the way for battle royale games in 2017, and Black Myth: Wukong, which had an unprecedented launch in China. Being an indie title, Palworld has once again proved that massive AAA budgets don’t mean those games will actually land with players—a point particularly illustrated by the fact that a sea of AAA endeavors launched in 2024 failed to reach even a fraction of the players Palworld did.
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