When it was released on January 19, 2024, few could have expected Palworld to accumulate players as quickly as it has. With its mix of cute creatures, combat and survival mechanics, the game has blown past several Steam records in short order. Here is the current player count for Palworld in January 2024.
Palworld has tapped into a unique combination of features, appealing to a hugely broad base in the process. Players build a camp and are able to farm, produce and expand, as in many survival games, but, things change when they capture their first Pal.
Pals occupy the game world and can be captured in order to have them work on the base or participate in battles. With all of that going on, it has become a race to explore everything the game has to offer at this Early Access stage.
Without further ado, let’s dive into the player count for Palworld as of January 2024.
Palworld player population
Palworld is available on both Steam and Xbox Game Pass, so tracking total player counts can be a little tricky. At the time of writing, Palworld has managed to achieve the second-highest concurrent player count in paid game history on Steam, after Cyberpunk 2077.
In total, 1,006,000 players were logged into the game simultaneously on the platform, with Palworld developer Pocketpair confirming over 3 million copies sold in the first 40 hours. On average, the game has been sitting on 704,000 concurrent players since launch.
There are currently no specific figures for the Game Pass version of the game on either PC or console, as the company does not share user data. That said, subscriber players will not be included in the metric of copies sold, likely adding significant numbers to the existing figures.
With the game continuing to rise in popularity, it’s likely yet to reach its population zenith. With the servers already struggling to keep up, the onus will then be on Epic Online Services to adjust to the massive growth of the community.