When Palworld launched in January 2024, developer Pocketpair had just one employee overseeing the servers – which were quickly flattened under the weight of 2.1 million players on Steam alone.

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that the servers broke. That was around a million." You can actually see that meteoric climb if you consult the SteamDB charts—on Friday, January 19, Palworld was already gaining momentum with ...