Palworld – described as «Pokémon with guns» – has been breaking records left and right all weekend, and it has now sold more than four million copies since it released in early access on Friday on Steam and Xbox Series X/S.

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All weekend, the monster-collecting survival game has been climbing the charts, and not only is it now Steam's most popular game all weekend – with a 1.2m concurrent players peak in the last 24 hours alone (that's more simultaneous players than PUBG, Counter-Strike 2, and Dota 2) – it has also surpassed the concurrent records for games like Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, and Elden Ring.

And even with a server outage that's preventing players from jumping on in co-op, right now, Palworld sits just 4000 players shy of Dota 2's concurrent peak of 1,295,114 players.

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has sold over 4 million copies in only about 3 days!

Momentum has increased since yesterday, with the latest sales at 86,000 units per hour.

Thank you everyone for playing Palworld!

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, Palworld's co-op servers have been a little spotty today, and at the time of writing, are still down. Yesterday, developer Pocketpair explained on social media that when Palworld exceeded 700,000 concurrent players, it had to hold «an emergency meeting» with Epic Games to «add an

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