PALWorld 2: Revenge of SCART

oh damn, I didn't notice. Thanks

It's also totally BotW. Like the whole start of the game is almost a direct rip off of BotW's intro.

Have you caught a person yet?

The building mechanics are pretty bare. And the monster pathfinding/automation could use work.

Otherwise, it's enjoyable.

I’d say too frustrating. And the zelda / pokemon clone fun only gets you so far.

It's really good, they got rid of the tediousness that usually comes from survival games by letting pals take care of the repetitive tasks for you.

It also has some really fun and dumb ideas.

Yeah, I'm like 18 hours in. Adjust the settings before you go in to make it be the Zelda/Pokemon/COD clone you prefer and have fun exploring and letting fake pokemon do your work for you. Interesting bits of mysterious storyline so far too.

Now that you mention it: The monsters kind of feel that way. The lacking art direction supports that feeling, too.

There are already people claiming this, but I have yet to see any actual proof of claim. Unfortunately the court of public opinion has already started to turn even without actual proof. Got to love a good witch hunt.

I mean half of them are obvious merges of Pokémon with assets copied one for one in some cases. Really wouldn't be surprised at all of they used an AI for this

The trailer reminded me of that other game craftopia that really didn't click with me. Pulled up the trailer for that and wouldn't you know it, same developer. Craftopia still isn't out of early access and sits at a comfortable 57% (recent) steam user rating. So I doubt I'll get palworld.

It's weird. I would say it feels very unpolished, yet at the same time, it works way better than I would have thought for an early access monster collector. It totally feels like a meme, but it's actually quite fun at the same time. I don't think I'll play it forever, but it's definitely my addiction this week. I only downloaded it because a friend suggested it, it has Pokemon elements, and it's included in game pass so I had nothing to lose, but I've already put probably 15 hours into it this weekend.

Honest opinion: Gameplay mechanics are really interesting, visuals are quite good. If you ever wanted a "pokemon but without keeping it kids friendly" game, this might scratch that itch just fine.

I didn't got deep into this game, but it has a noticable lack of direction. The game doesn't tell you what to do aside from the basic base building; but I like it.

Oh also, it's quite buggy in this state and crashed occasionally; so you might want to give it a few more updates before buying if you dislike that.

It's funny you mention this because I actually love early access games because I like seeing the game change and evolve over time.

should come back to the top after a few days. A few releases are able to become the most played game on steam, it's a very impressive feat.

Epic will try to buy them and take it off Steam. Calling it now.

Devs started making changes that killed a lot of fun to, presumably, appeal more to CoD players. Some of the balancing decisions also made a lot of the guns a bit less exciting to use and made most of them essentially the same thing. The two most popular classes (medic and sniper) have been nerfed to oblivion. It feels like they are trying really hard to curate a very specific experience, and that seems to have burned out a lot of people or driven others away.

Personally, I think they should have leaned harder in the direction of more realism and rewarding creativity.

Wym? It's still there populated with plenty of servers.