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people are saying palworld is actually good (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i might give it a try, how about you guys?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah you're most likely right. I also don't get why people go crazy over survival games, my brother loves it somehow.

I tried playing a bunch of survival games but I just find it the most boring shit imaginable. The only survival games I like are Minecraft, Terraria and Valheim, and of these three, as much as I love Minecraft it is also boring as hell most of the time.

Still, it's a mistery to me how Palworld is apparently breaking Steam record after Steam record. I could see it getting really popular, but not this much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Outside of quest-driven modded minecraft I agree with you. When I play MC it either has to be with an explicit creative building goal or a hands-held progress-through-this-tech-modpack (I still fool around with GT:NH regularly).

I've also accepted that maybe my interests are just not the target market for the survival genre and there's something there that I'm never going to "get."

I also think the pokemon aesthetics are enough to take a generally non-mainstream genre (survival-crafting) and blast it to a broader audience. If I had to guess the recent popularity of Lego Fortnite introducing younger gamers to the survival genre was probably also instrumental in prepping them for a game like this mechanically- now it's just got the aesthetics of another franchise that younger players have current interest in (pokemon) and older players have nostalgia for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When I play MC it either has to be with an explicit creative building goal or a hands-held progress-through-this-tech-modpack (I still fool around with GT:NH regularly).

I've also accepted that maybe my interests are just not the target market for the survival genre and there's something there that I'm never going to "get."

Oh, preach comrade, I completely agree!

I also think the pokemon aesthetics are enough to take a generally non-mainstream genre (survival-crafting) and blast it to a broader audience.

I wouldn't say this genre is not mainstream. These types of survival games always explode in popularity, gets featured incessantly on twitch and afterwards it usually retains quite a chunky commited playerbase. But I completely agree with the rest of what you wrote.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I guess I should have said mainstream appeal in the Minecraft sort of way.

Valheim/Terraria are large, but Palworld is looking at its current trajectory to be fighting with the giants.