Palworld
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 42.9h
- Value
- $0.70/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1660, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $20.99. 21 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Necesse ($9.74, scores 79) and Valheim ($29.99, scores 92).
18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 10,531 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 42.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 99, 2.3 times as much.
484,781 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
92% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
18.0K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Palworld gives you options ... whether you die and lose your items or not; how much daylight and night you want; gives you many options to breed pals and; most of all since I'm an elderly and had a stoke, it allows the option to make the fight less difficult.
Real-life socializing can be exhausting, but Palworld gave me a little virtual sanctuary to escape to. This was the very first game I booted up on my brand-new PC, and it quickly became my absolute favorite. Outside of gaming, real-world interactions can feel overwhelming. There's always so much unspoken tension, subtle mind games, and endless social hoops you have to jump through just to fit in. But none of that...
is just Pokémon with guns and zero labor laws. Animal abuse has never been so cozy.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Palworld scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1623730/palworldThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 23.
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