Palworld hits 25M players as it co-exists with Helldivers 2

Live service games typically compete with each other for the finite resource that is gamers’ attention. Conventional wisdom in the games industry would have you believe that most gamers only have time to invest in one such title at a time. However, two live service games both appear to be attracting high player numbers alongside each other: Palworld and Helldivers 2.

According to Palworld developers Pocketpair, their creature collector has passed the 25 million player mark. This includes both the 15 million players on Steam and 10 million on Xbox Game Pass, both within a month of its launch. While concurrent player count has dropped off somewhat since the game launched, community manager Bucky said on X that this is normal. They also encouraged players to try other games while waiting on new Palworld content, saying, “you don’t need to feel guilty about hopping from game to game.”