Palworld Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-22
- Fun and addictive gameplay
- Brilliant co-op multiplayer
- Vast variety of Pals
- Frequent crashes and performance issues
- Weak and lackluster story
- Pal AI pathfinding issues
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 8-11GB VRAMmixed
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 479,122
- Positive
- 452,93694.5%
- Negative
- 26,1865.5%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 20,726,113
- Estimated revenue
- $621,576,129
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 3630.40%
- Estimated copies lost
- 15,703
- Estimated revenue lost
- $470,933
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 3630.4% Avg playtime 0.8h | 3200.4% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 4,0914.5% Avg playtime 132.5h | 86,64294.8% Avg playtime 183.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 96.6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 1,007.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 3,098.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 945.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
91,416 total
Organic purchasers76,08483.2%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations15,33216.8%
Voted up: 95%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
91,416 total
First impression0-2h1,1931.31%
Voted up: 61%
Mid game2-10h10,49211.5%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h9,70710.6%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+70,02476.6%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
94.9%
Global baseline 95.1%
810 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 479,122 total.