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WAIT… PALWORLD HAS A FARMING SIM COMING SOON?! I went down the PALFARM rabbit hole, and the more I looked into it, the more I felt like this is a test for something much bigger. (based on everything i’ve been reading, the community seems pretty split. a lot of people are calling it “animal crossing with pals,” while others think pocketpair is spreading itself too thin. from what i found, that’s not really what’s happening. palfarm is being built by a separate team, which fits the broader strategy of expanding the palworld ecosystem without pulling the core team away from the main game) Now, the more I thought about it, the more it reminded me of what Nintendo did with Mario. Mario didn’t become one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world because Nintendo kept making the same game over and over. They experimented by introducing games like Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, Paper Mario, Mario RPG, Dr. Mario, and Luigi’s Mansion. None of those games replaced the mainline Mario titles. They introduced the same characters to completely different audiences and proved the IP could succeed in more than one genre. I’m not saying Palworld is the next Mario lol. What I’m saying is that the strategy feels very similar. Instead of asking, “How do we make Palworld 2?” it feels like Pocketpair is asking, “What other experiences can we build around this universe?” When you zoom out, the pieces start fitting together. You have the survival game, the TCG, Palworld Online, Palfarm, merchandise, licensed collaborations, publishing, and a growing ecosystem around the IP. (maybe i’m completely reading into this, but the more i research pocketpair, the clearer the strategy becomes. i genuinely think they have a real shot at becoming one of the most influential indie studios in the industry if they play their cards right)

WAIT… PALWORLD HAS A FARMING SIM COMING SOON?! I went down the PALFARM rabbit hole, and the more I looked into it, the more I felt like this is a test for something much bigger. (based on everything i’ve been reading, the community seems pretty split. a lot of people are calling it “animal crossing with pals,” while others think pocketpair is spreading itself too thin. from what i found, that’s not really what’s happening. palfarm is being built by a separate team, which fits the broader strategy of expanding the palworld ecosystem without pulling the core team away from the main game) Now, the more I thought about it, the more it reminded me of what Nintendo did with Mario. Mario didn’t become one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world because Nintendo kept making the same game over and over. They experimented by introducing games like Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, Paper Mario, Mario RPG, Dr. Mario, and Luigi’s Mansion. None of those games replaced the mainline Mario titles. They introduced the same characters to completely different audiences and proved the IP could succeed in more than one genre. I’m not saying Palworld is the next Mario lol. What I’m saying is that the strategy feels very similar. Instead of asking, “How do we make Palworld 2?” it feels like Pocketpair is asking, “What other experiences can we build around this universe?” When you zoom out, the pieces start fitting together. You have the survival game, the TCG, Palworld Online, Palfarm, merchandise, licensed collaborations, publishing, and a growing ecosystem around the IP. (maybe i’m completely reading into this, but the more i research pocketpair, the clearer the strategy becomes. i genuinely think they have a real shot at becoming one of the most influential indie studios in the industry if they play their cards right)

514,385 views • 7 days ago

I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH PALWORLD. Just look at what’s happened over the past few days: 🎮 Palworld 1.0 released and continues to pull hundreds of thousands of concurrent Steam players. 📈 Palworld TCG launched into instant sellouts, scalping, and four-figure card sales. 🌍 Palworld Online was officially announced for 2026. 🛠️ Pocketpair keeps shipping updates and expanding their ecosystem. And it feels like we’re only at the beginning. (this franchise has more momentum than people give it credit for)

I DON’T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH PALWORLD. Just look at what’s happened over the past few days: 🎮 Palworld 1.0 released and continues to pull hundreds of thousands of concurrent Steam players. 📈 Palworld TCG launched into instant sellouts, scalping, and four-figure card sales. 🌍 Palworld Online was officially announced for 2026. 🛠️ Pocketpair keeps shipping updates and expanding their ecosystem. And it feels like we’re only at the beginning. (this franchise has more momentum than people give it credit for)

221,974 views • 10 days ago

WAIT… PALWORLD ALSO HAS A DATING SIM COMING SOON?! (i kept going down the rabbit hole and this one sounds crazy but its real) Pal♡world! More Than Just Pals is a dating simulator that started as an April Fools joke in 2024. Pocketpair dropped a ridiculous trailer for a Palworld dating sim where you attend Palpagos Private Academy, build relationships with Pals and human characters, and depending on your choices, things can go from cute school romance to something much darker. A year later they came back with an actual Steam page, another trailer, new characters, and confirmed the game was really being developed. Then in 2026 they doubled down again with another special video and an expanded cast. (basically they kept the joke going long enough that eventually the joke became a real product, coming soon™️ lol) The actual game is a single player romance visual novel with choices and different relationship paths. You have characters like Katress, Lovander, Zoe, Chillet, Quivern, Saya, Tarantriss and Splatterina, each written around completely different dating sim archetypes. Lovander treats romance like hunting, Katress gets jealous, Splatterina is basically the obsessive yandere character, and Saya is the flirty school nurse. Pocketpair is also very deliberately mixing all of that with horror. The official Steam page straight up warns that the game contains horror elements, and even asks whether you’ll remain friends, fall in love, or dismantle and eat them. 😳 And before anyone thinks this is a “gooner” game, Pocketpair has already clarified that the real game is not supposed to be an explicit NSFW game. The original April Fools marketing joked about an adult version, but their publishing head later clarified that they’re not actually going that far. (what I’m more interested in is who this game is actually for lol) Palfarm makes sense if Pocketpair wants to reach the cozy gaming, Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley crowd. More Than Just Pals goes in almost the complete opposite direction. Now they’re targeting visual novel fans, dating sim players, anime audiences, romance fans, horror fans, and the part of internet culture that was already making Lovander memes five minutes after Palworld released. (and judging by the comments i’ve been reading, pocketpair absolutely knows who they’re dealing with. half the reaction is “why does this exist” and the other half has apparently had this thing wishlisted since the steam page went live) This is the part I keep coming back to. You don’t necessarily need every Palworld player to want every Palworld product. You need different Palworld products that give different types of people their own entry point into the IP. And interestingly, Pocketpair itself says these spinoffs aren’t some calculated attempt to build a giant “media empire.” Bucky has said projects like Palfarm and the dating sim came largely because their huge community kept asking for different ways to interact with the characters. More Than Just Pals is also one of the projects Pocketpair is actually working on internally, unlike some of the licensed Palworld projects being handled by outside companies. (that’s also the strategy without them even calling it a strategy. listen to the community, find the weird little subcultures already forming around the ip, then give each of them something they actually want) I don’t think More Than Just Pals needs to become some massive game for this experiment to work. If a person who would never spend 100 hours grinding materials in Palworld suddenly cares about Katress, Lovander or Tarantriss because they played a visual novel, Pocketpair just expanded the audience for those characters without changing the original game at all. That’s what makes this interesting to me. Palfarm is testing how far Palworld can stretch across genres. More Than Just Pals might be testing how far it can stretch across demographics. (sounds absolutely ridiculous but it’s genius)

WAIT… PALWORLD ALSO HAS A DATING SIM COMING SOON?! (i kept going down the rabbit hole and this one sounds crazy but its real) Pal♡world! More Than Just Pals is a dating simulator that started as an April Fools joke in 2024. Pocketpair dropped a ridiculous trailer for a Palworld dating sim where you attend Palpagos Private Academy, build relationships with Pals and human characters, and depending on your choices, things can go from cute school romance to something much darker. A year later they came back with an actual Steam page, another trailer, new characters, and confirmed the game was really being developed. Then in 2026 they doubled down again with another special video and an expanded cast. (basically they kept the joke going long enough that eventually the joke became a real product, coming soon™️ lol) The actual game is a single player romance visual novel with choices and different relationship paths. You have characters like Katress, Lovander, Zoe, Chillet, Quivern, Saya, Tarantriss and Splatterina, each written around completely different dating sim archetypes. Lovander treats romance like hunting, Katress gets jealous, Splatterina is basically the obsessive yandere character, and Saya is the flirty school nurse. Pocketpair is also very deliberately mixing all of that with horror. The official Steam page straight up warns that the game contains horror elements, and even asks whether you’ll remain friends, fall in love, or dismantle and eat them. 😳 And before anyone thinks this is a “gooner” game, Pocketpair has already clarified that the real game is not supposed to be an explicit NSFW game. The original April Fools marketing joked about an adult version, but their publishing head later clarified that they’re not actually going that far. (what I’m more interested in is who this game is actually for lol) Palfarm makes sense if Pocketpair wants to reach the cozy gaming, Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley crowd. More Than Just Pals goes in almost the complete opposite direction. Now they’re targeting visual novel fans, dating sim players, anime audiences, romance fans, horror fans, and the part of internet culture that was already making Lovander memes five minutes after Palworld released. (and judging by the comments i’ve been reading, pocketpair absolutely knows who they’re dealing with. half the reaction is “why does this exist” and the other half has apparently had this thing wishlisted since the steam page went live) This is the part I keep coming back to. You don’t necessarily need every Palworld player to want every Palworld product. You need different Palworld products that give different types of people their own entry point into the IP. And interestingly, Pocketpair itself says these spinoffs aren’t some calculated attempt to build a giant “media empire.” Bucky has said projects like Palfarm and the dating sim came largely because their huge community kept asking for different ways to interact with the characters. More Than Just Pals is also one of the projects Pocketpair is actually working on internally, unlike some of the licensed Palworld projects being handled by outside companies. (that’s also the strategy without them even calling it a strategy. listen to the community, find the weird little subcultures already forming around the ip, then give each of them something they actually want) I don’t think More Than Just Pals needs to become some massive game for this experiment to work. If a person who would never spend 100 hours grinding materials in Palworld suddenly cares about Katress, Lovander or Tarantriss because they played a visual novel, Pocketpair just expanded the audience for those characters without changing the original game at all. That’s what makes this interesting to me. Palfarm is testing how far Palworld can stretch across genres. More Than Just Pals might be testing how far it can stretch across demographics. (sounds absolutely ridiculous but it’s genius)

70,410 views • 6 days ago

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