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If you keep an eye on the gaming news at all, you might have heard about a strange little indie game in development over the last couple of years. Often stylized as “Pokemon with guns,” Palworld is an odd Psyduck, a fusion of modern crafting games like Ark and Valheim with the familiar monster fighting of the world’s most lucrative media franchise. Its launch this weekend was a shocking success, selling over five million copies, shooting it to the #3 concurrent player spot on Steam.

That’s not the third most-played Steam game this weekend. No, Palworld gets the #1 spot with a bullet among recent releases. That’s the third most-played Steam game in the history of Steam with a peak of just over 1.5 million players at one time. Only PUBG and Counter-Strike 2 have reached higher numbers. And that’s apparently true despite the game being exclusive to Xbox and PC (missing the large PlayStation and Switch portions of the market) and being offered to millions of players for free via a day-one release on the Xbox Game Pass. Console and Game Pass PC players aren’t included in the Steam sales or concurrent player numbers.

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