Palworld

In a big and wide world, we've set out to gather resources, build a base and above all: try to catch 'em all.

If it wasn't already Steam's third most-concurrently played game of all-time, the peak would be enough to become the 14th most-concurrently played title on the platform.

Perhaps Pocketpair is trying to appease Nintendo, with whom they have long been at odds over alleged similarities to Pokémon.

The 1.0 launch has seen players returning to the game in their hundreds of thousands.

40 million players and two and a half years later, the Early Access period has finally ended and the game is officially finished.

The cost of the game is being retained at $29.99.

And it hasn't even launched into 1.0 yet.

The developer also suggests starting the game fresh too when the update arrives.

The lawsuit is expected to come to a close this November.

So far we've only seen a cinematic trailer, so the content of version 1.0 remains a mystery.

Publishing head John Buckley: "It really depends on what we can do with the game at the moment, how we can expand it without it feeling boring."

Pocketpair is offering yet another way to interact with their pals, in a strategy that seems handpicked from the Pokémon playbook.

It turns out we can look forward to a Ultrakill collaboration for some new skins, which we get to check out in a new trailer.

One of the claimed patent infringements has been rejected by Japan's patent office, and Nintendo either has to drop it or try to modify it.

Pocketpair claims there is "something mysterious is lurking in the shadows" but won't tell us what it is... yet...

Anyone else forget this game was still in Early Access?