It seems that the thought of “Pokémon with weapons” seems to be fairly well-liked. Pocket Pair, the builders behind Palworld, have introduced that their fledgling title is already promoting extremely properly.

How properly, you ask? Properly, the workforce revealed that gross sales for the newly launched recreation have already crossed the million copies offered mark – and that was in simply eight hours.

Described by the event workforce as a “monster-catching, survival and crafting recreation”, Palworld simply launched yesterday on Steam Early Entry and Xbox Recreation Preview. It’s additionally obtainable for Xbox Recreation Move, although the subscription service isn’t sometimes accounted for in gross sales figures.

Momentum was robust for Palworld main as much as its launch. The evening earlier than launch, the sport was ranked third on Steam’s Wishlist web page. On high of that, the hodgepodge mission is at the moment trending on X on the time of this text being printed.

I describe Palworld as a hodgepodge mission as a result of it appears to borrow plenty of totally different concepts from different notable video games. In his latest impressions of the Early Entry construct, Destructoid’s Eric Van Allen famous that on high of there being similarities to the Pokémon collection, there are additionally parts of Breath of the Wild, Rust, Valheim, and Monster Hunter included all through too.

Once more, Palworld will stay in an Early Entry/Recreation Preview construct for a minimum of a yr in accordance with its Steam web page. There are many additions and adjustments that Pocket Pair plans to implement within the coming months. Amongst them will likely be new monsters to catch, new areas and dungeons to discover, contemporary buildings and objects for survival, and extra. The event workforce additionally famous that they “are additionally contemplating incorporating solely new recreation programs primarily based on participant suggestions and concepts.”