Palworld Early Access tops 12 million sales on Steam, seven million players on Xbox

The Early Access release of open-world survival crafting game Palworld has sold approximately 12 million copies on Steam, and the Xbox Series and Xbox One versions have reached over seven million players, developer Pocketpair announced.

As of January 31, the number of concurrent Palworld players on Steam has exceeded two million, making it the second most concurrently played game in the history of Steam.

The Xbox versions peaked at nearly three million daily active users, and Palworld has become the biggest third-party launch in Game Pass history.

Pocketpair also announced the Palworld Early Access roadmap.

The announced list of upcoming updates is as follows:

• Addressing Critical Issues
• Currently, numerous bugs have been identified, and we are prioritizing fixing those.
  • Sometimes, the world date may experience rollbacks.
  • The loading screen may persist when trying to load into worlds.
  • …and so on.
• Improvements to Implement ASAP
• Key configuration improvements.
  • Improvements to base Pal AI and pathing.
  • Planned Future Updates
• Player-versus-Player
  • Raid Bosses (End-Game Content)
  • Pal Arena (PvP for Pals)
  • Steam-Xbox Crossplay
  • Various Xbox Feature Improvements
  • Server Transfers and Migrations
  • Improvements to the Building System
  • New islands, Pals, Bosses, and Technologies.

Palworld launched for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on January 19. It is also available via Xbox Game Pass.