Palworld is taking the gaming world by storm. The indie-developed monster-catching adventure/survival game has had an amazing early access launch since January 19‚ eclipsing the 3 million player mark within its first 40 hours of availability on Xbox consoles and PC. It's also achieved the highest player count of any non-free-to-play game in Steam's history‚ with more than 1.1 million active players at its peak (at the time of this article's publishing)‚ unseating former champion Elden Ring.