Palworld has sold five million copies in three days.
Palworld has sold five million copies in three days.
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Palworld sells 5M copies in 3 days

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Palworld is an online game described as Pokémon with guns. And it has sold more than five million copies in three days.

Palworld said earlier on Sunday on Twitter that the game’s momentum has increased since yesterday, with the latest sales at 86,000 units per hour.

The game launched on January 19, and it rose to the top of Steam’s best-selling games list. It overtook PUBG in terms of concurrent players. The game is also available on the Windows PC via Game Pass and Xbox.

It’s an open world survival crafting game for up to 32 players. It has more than 100 types of pals. You capture, train, battle or put your pals to work. The developers at Pocketpair spent three years making the game. The game had some outages over the weekend due to the demand, and Pocketpair met with Epic Games to resolve issues. The challenges continues as of Monday morning.

[Updated: 3:20 a.m. on 1/22/24 with news that sales rose from four million in three days to five million in three days].

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.