Palworld has now been in Early Access for a year. After the last update, there were 10 times more players on Steam than before, and now there is a new roadmap for 2025. Despite Nintendo’s lawsuit.
What has Palworld announced? For its first birthday, Palworld has released a new roadmap with new features. The following contents are among those planned:
- Co-op via Crossplay
- World transfer for Pals
- World tree / end scenarios
- More ways to enhance and strengthen Pals
- New content such as new Pals and new technologies
- Collaborations with other games, including the game Terraria
- Quality-of-life updates, including for placing objects, base Pals, and UI
Regarding a timeline for new content, Pocket Pair remains tight-lipped. In addition to the new content, there is also a hint about another anticipated Palworld theme: the release.
The 2025 Roadmap is set – What about the release?
Is there a final release date yet? Specifically, the developers say via X.com that they want to continue developing the game while preparing for the official release.
According to the developers, Palworld was originally meant to be in Early Access for exactly one year. This milestone has now been reached. However, they do not specify a concrete release date. If the release version is already in the works, it probably won’t be too long.
One unpredictable factor is also the lawsuit by Nintendo against Palworld. This could also possibly influence the upcoming release.
What new features were recently added to Palworld? On December 23, Palworld received the last major update, with which the number of players shot back up. Among the new content was a complete island that is even larger than the previous Sakurajima (translated as “Cherry Blossom Island”).
With the new island also came new biomes, Pals, items, and above all: a new hardcore mode.
Palworld celebrated its absolutely spectacular Early Access release in early 2024: Over 700,000 concurrent players quickly overloaded the servers and led to an emergency meeting. In an interview, Community Manager John Bucky
Buckley provided even more exciting insights into the launch: When 2 million players want to play Palworld, only 1 developer is working on the servers – it almost ends in a disaster
