It’s actual: The Palworld relationship sim has a Steam web page and all the pieces. What began out as an April Fools’ Day joke final yr is now an precise sport that’s in improvement at Pocketpair.
Palworld: Extra Than Simply Friends pulls the Pokémon-like creatures out of the favored survival sport and places them right into a highschool setting. Your character is a switch pupil at Palpagos Personal Academy and is eager to satisfy some friends.
“It’s as much as you whether or not you keep associates with the friends, develop romantic relationships with them, and even dismember and eat them,” the Steam description ominously reads. Pal butchery shouldn’t be the a part of Palworld I anticipated to be introduced over into the relationship sim, but it surely may trace at one thing extra sinister happening within the story than the outline lets on. The unique trailer has some similarities to Doki Doki Literature Membership.
There are a variety of friends you possibly can meet, together with Katress, Lovander, Chillet, Quivern, Tarantriss, and Splatterina. Pocketpair additionally threw in some people for those who’re into that form of factor. A handful of those characters confirmed up within the first trailer, which could imply it was by no means meant to be fully a joke — though that trailer additionally had an April 1, 2025 launch date that clearly wasn’t actual.
The brand new trailer may be very comparable, but it surely solely ends with a affirmation that Palworld: Extra Than Simply Friends is in improvement. I hope it comes out subsequent yr on April Fools’ Day so that everybody stays simply as confused as they’re now.
Talking of issues that aren’t jokes and are literally very actual: The official Palworld X account is celebrating the announcement by giving freely a Lovander physique pillow.
