Palworld
Last updated: 2025-12-26
- Engaging and diverse gameplay loop with Pals
- High replayability and extensive content available
- Satisfying base-building mechanics integrated well
- Severe gameplay bugs persist despite updates
- Poor optimization causes performance issues
- Flawed AI and pathfinding frustrate players
Emotions
Frustration24%Excitement15%Satisfaction9%Enjoyment7%Joy6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 407,976
- Positive
- 384,33594.2%
- Negative
- 23,6415.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 24,120,932
- Estimated revenue
- $723,386,751
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 90.21%
- Estimated copies lost
- 532
- Estimated revenue lost
- $15,955
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 90.2% Avg playtime 0.9h | 310.7% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 2455.7% Avg playtime 163.8h | 3,98793.3% Avg playtime 204h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 6 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 40.5 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 159.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 707.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
4,272 total
Organic purchasers3,57683.7%
Voted up: 95%
Key activations69616.3%
Voted up: 91%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
4,272 total
First impression0-2h761.78%
Voted up: 84%
Mid game2-10h3387.91%
Voted up: 94%
Late game10-20h3448.05%
Voted up: 91%
Endgame20h+3,51482.3%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
97.6%
Global baseline 94.1%
82 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 407,976 total.