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Palworld<\/a> is now the sixth game to ever hit more than a million concurrent players on Steam.<\/p>\n

Palworld – described as “Pokémon with guns” – has been breaking records left<\/a> and right<\/a> all weekend, and it has now sold more than four million copies since it released in early access on Friday on Steam and Xbox Series X\/S.<\/p>\n

All weekend, the monster-collecting survival game has been climbing the charts, and not only is it now Steam’s most popular game all weekend – with a 1.2m concurrent players peak in the last 24 hours alone (that’s more simultaneous players than PUBG, Counter-Strike 2, and Dota 2) – it has also surpassed the concurrent records for games like Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Elden Ring.<\/p>\n

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Palworld is now the sixth game to ever hit more than a million concurrent players on Steam. Palworld – described as “Pokémon with guns” – has been breaking records left and right all weekend, and it has now sold more than four million copies since it released in early access on Friday on Steam and Xbox Series X\/S. All weekend, the monster-collecting survival game has been climbing the charts, and not only is it now Steam’s most popular game all weekend – with a 1.2m concurrent players peak in the last 24 hours alone (that’s more simultaneous players than PUBG, Counter-Strike 2, and Dota 2) – it has also surpassed the concurrent records for games like Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Elden Ring. Read…<\/p>\n

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