It’s actual: The Palworld courting sim has a Steam web page and every little thing. What began out as an April Fools’ Day joke final 12 months is now an precise recreation that’s in growth at Pocketpair.
Palworld: Extra Than Simply Friends pulls the Pokémon-like creatures out of the favored survival recreation and places them right into a highschool setting. Your character is a switch scholar at Palpagos Personal Academy and is eager to satisfy some buddies.
“It’s as much as you whether or not you keep buddies with the buddies, develop romantic relationships with them, and even dismember and eat them,” the Steam description ominously reads. Pal butchery just isn’t the a part of Palworld I anticipated to be introduced over into the courting sim, nevertheless it would possibly trace at one thing extra sinister happening within the story than the outline lets on. The unique trailer has some similarities to Doki Doki Literature Membership.
There are a variety of buddies you’ll be able to meet, together with Katress, Lovander, Chillet, Quivern, Tarantriss, and Splatterina. Pocketpair additionally threw in some people in the event you’re into that kind of factor. A handful of those characters confirmed up within the first trailer, which could imply it was by no means meant to be fully a joke — though that trailer additionally had an April 1, 2025 launch date that clearly wasn’t actual.
The brand new trailer may be very comparable, nevertheless it solely ends with a affirmation that Palworld: Extra Than Simply Friends is in growth. I hope it comes out subsequent 12 months on April Fools’ Day so that everybody stays simply as confused as they’re now.
Talking of issues that aren’t jokes and are literally very actual: The official Palworld X account is celebrating the announcement by freely giving a Lovander physique pillow.
