Pocketpair is selling Palworld at Tokyo Game Show 2026 on the strength of its July 10 version 1.0 launch, with the Palworld Official Card Game booster packs carrying the booth's top giveaway bonus. Garena is developing Palworld Online, a licensed mobile MMORPG with a 2026 release planned for iOS and Android.
The stories tagged to Palworld are mostly about a single build-up and release. Pocketpair announced on June 6 that the game would leave early access and ship version 1.0 on July 10, ending a run that began in January 2024, and said the update would be its largest. That framing held up in the details: 27 pages of patch notes, a warning on July 9 to delete old mods before the update so leftover files would not break startup, saves, or quest progression, and then a launch that added two regions, the floating Tenyo-kyo and the World Tree, plus 72 new species for a total of 287. The player level cap rose from 50 to 80, tower bosses went from five to eight, and new Awakening and Mutation breeding systems arrived.
The commercial scale is stated just as plainly. Pocketpair says Palworld has passed 40 million total players, and concurrent Steam players topped 470,000 on launch day, fourth on the platform behind Counter-Strike 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, and Dota 2. That number anchors the Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth, announced in August and detailed on September 8, where the merchandise lineup includes a limited T-shirt using Pals from version 1.0 and a Palworld Official Card Game booster pack bonus limited to the first 100 buyers at 20,000 yen.
The IP is moving outward from the base game. Garena announced on August 3 that it is developing Palworld Online, a licensed mobile MMORPG for iOS and Android planned within 2026, rebuilt for touch with group bases, PvE and PvP, and open-world bosses. Separately, Hello Games CEO Sean Murray responded warmly on August 19 to talk of a No Man's Sky collaboration after Pocketpair publishing head John Buckley had repeatedly raised the idea.
Pocketpair Publishing is running its own slate alongside the flagship: Clicky Islands from Karrot Games on Steam in 2026, and Vision Quench from WizMUD Games in spring 2027.
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