Polygon.com / 01.04.25

The Palworld dating sim started out as a joke, but now it's very real

Its real: The Palworld dating sim has a Steam page and everything. What started out as an April Fools Day joke last year is now an actual game thats in development at Pocketpair. And just to be sure about this, we reached out to Pocketpair to confirm that Palworld: More Than Just Pals isnt another April Fools joke and will update this story when we hear back. However, Pocketpair communications director John Bucky Buckley said on X that the announcement doesnt concern April Fools on X. Palworld: More Than Just Pals pulls the Pokémon-like creatures out of the popular survival game and puts them into a high school setting. Your character is a transfer student at Palpagos Private Academy and is keen to meet some pals. Its up to you whether you stay friends with the pals, develop romantic relationships with them, or even dismember and eat them, the Steam description ominously reads. Pal butchery is not the part of Palworld I expected to be brought over into the dating sim, but it might hin...
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