How many copies has Palworld sold?

indielist estimates Palworld has sold between 12,537,690 and 29,254,610 units (median 20,896,150), derived from its 379,930 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Palworld?

Palworld was developed by Pocketpair and published by Pocketpair.

Who published Palworld?

Palworld was published by Pocketpair, developed by Pocketpair. See Pocketpair's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Palworld have on Steam?

Palworld has 379,930 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Palworld worth playing?

Steam players rate Palworld 94% positive across 379,930 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Palworld

Jul 9, 2026 Action $29.99

Developer Pocketpair Publisher Pocketpair

Profile updated May 2026

Players engage with creature-collection mechanics in this survival title launched in 2024. The game maintains an overwhelmingly positive rating from 150,753 reviews on Steam. As an indie project, it is currently self-published by the developer.

Palworld is a 2026 Action game developed by Pocketpair and published by Pocketpair. On Steam it has gathered 379,930 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Pocketpair with publisher Pocketpair is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 12.5 million to 29.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Palworld can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

379,930

Positive

94%

Steam appid

1623730

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

490,037

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 11:10 UTC · 24h peak 742,230

Sales estimate

v1.0

12.5M to 29.3M

units (median: 20.9M)

≈ $214.8M to $501.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

12.5M median 29.3M

+ How is this calculated?

379,930 reviews × NB(55) = 20,896,150 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2026	-10
price_$30	+5
positive_94%	+10
final NB	55

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Palworld at roughly 12.5 million to 29.3 million copies, with a median around 20.9 million, derived from its 379,930 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $358.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

55 observed days · window low $20.99

Across 55 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $20.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $20.99 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Palworld sold?: indielist estimates Palworld has sold between 12,537,690 and 29,254,610 units (median 20,896,150), derived from its 379,930 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Palworld?: Palworld was developed by Pocketpair and published by Pocketpair.
Who published Palworld?: Palworld was published by Pocketpair, developed by Pocketpair. See Pocketpair's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Palworld released?: Palworld was released in 2026.
How many reviews does Palworld have on Steam?: Palworld has 379,930 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Palworld worth playing?: Steam players rate Palworld 94% positive across 379,930 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Palworld can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Necesse, Craftopia, Valheim, Smalland: Survive the Wilds, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Pocketpair's other releases and Pocketpair's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Palworld sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Palworld page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.