Developer Pocketpair has introduced Palworld! More Than Just Pals, a relationship sim set in its massively fashionable monster-catching universe — and no, it’s not an April Fools’ Day joke (this time).
The workforce behind 2024’s Pokémon-like survival expertise revealed its plans to inject a little bit of romance into its catalog as we speak, March 31. It’s an announcement that, on every other day of the 12 months, followers would settle for with out query. However, April Fools’ Day gags, pretend video games, and more bizarre bulletins from recreation builders will certainly flood the web as quickly as the brand new month rolls in tomorrow, so most followers are already taking Palworld! More Than Just Pals with a grain of salt.
Pocketpair desires to be clear for the non-believers: Palworld! More Than Just Pals is certainly an actual online game. The thought was seemingly born out of its 2024 April Fools’ Day stunt, which noticed the workforce asserting More Than Just Pals as a pretend recreation for little greater than a fast snicker. Well, now it’s actual, and it’s coming to PC by way of Steam at an unspecified level sooner or later.
Palworld! More Than Just Pals feels like an particularly out-there addition to Pocketpair’s fashionable universe. Its description teases an expertise that enables gamers to befriend and fall in love with a forged of scholar Pals who attend Palagos Private Academy. The mission’s official Steam page highlights characters just like the “cute” and “mysterious” Katress and the “timid” Chillet, with many names pulled straight from Palworld’s library of creatures.
“You, the protagonist, enroll as a switch scholar within the prestigious Palagos Private Academy,” an official description from Pocketpair mentioned. “You will meet distinctive buddies (friends) and revel in faculty life via friendship and romance. It’s as much as you whether or not you keep buddies with the friends, develop romantic relationships with them, and even dismember and eat them.”
This does not concern April Fools 🙂
— Bucky | Palworld (@Bucky_cm) March 31, 2025
Pocketpair’s Palworld celebrated its one-year anniversary this previous January because it continues improvement with extra updates. Its string of content material will certainly assist with the look forward to the Palworld relationship sim, as gamers most not too long ago acquired their fingers on an replace that added crossplay assist, Blueprint upgrades, photograph mode, and extra. Meanwhile, these hoping for a Nintendo Switch 2 model of Palworld have a little bit of hope to cling on to, however even when a Switch port doesn’t work out, we will no less than hope Palworld! More Than Just Pals will arrive on the console sometime.
Michael Cripe is a contract contributor with IGN. He’s greatest identified for his work at websites like The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be certain to present him a comply with on Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).
