Only 100 Pals? That doesn't seem like very many. Are they planning on adding more over time?

[JCourtney]

Only 100 Pals? That doesn't seem like very many. Are they planning on adding more over time?

[CT-99 STRIKER]

From what i've seen on youtube channels that already played the game before EA is out, the total for day one is 111. Tbh isn't little for a start and imo i prefer quallity over quantity. i love pokemon but i confess that as rn more than half of all pokemons are garbage for the sake of "adding more to the total of pokemons made to this day", i would prefer less but being appealing and having some personality, they went as making one as an apple...... yay....

To be further blunt, my concern with this game ain't much how many creatures they make, but the fact they've other games on EA since 2020 still not completed, that is my main worry with this game "if this gets into EA limbo too". I hope not....

[Reu]

Originally posted by JCourtney:

What kind of building is there in this game? Can you make bases, etc.? Is this pretty much planned to just be a sandbox or do they plan to add other game play endings in the future roadmap?

The game features colony management systems, not just ark like building. Your pals will support your base and do various tasks they’re good at and you also have to take care of their happiness(or don’t, they will revolt or refuse to work if so) so it’s rimworld lite

[TerrorSenpai]

Originally posted by JCourtney:

Only 100 Pals? That doesn't seem like very many. Are they planning on adding more over time?

lets not forget that pokemon red and blue only had 151 at launch and this game while it has 100 unique pals they can be fused to create new variants, similar to eevee having multiple evolutions except every pal has that option

[TheKazz]

Originally posted by Fourth Fox:

To be fair Ark released with 77 dinos when it first released in 2016.. now look at it

There is no way Ark had 77 when it first went into early access. 30 tops if we count non-tamable creatures like fish and Broodmother.

[Soren]

Originally posted by TheKazz:

Originally posted by Fourth Fox:

To be fair Ark released with 77 dinos when it first released in 2016.. now look at it

There is no way Ark had 77 when it first went into early access. 30 tops if we count non-tamable creatures like fish and Broodmother.

Yeah, unless he's counting when the game released out of early access which was 2017... hard to say because he said 2016, which is between the early access release of 2015 and the out of early access release of 2017. And even if he meant the latter, Palworld is releasing in early access anyway.

[Rem Best Girl]

Like the devs said. This is NOT a pokemon game, its a -survival- game.

[月の かじ]

Originally posted by Maitrepof:

Sure but most of them are just evolutions, So you actually have like 50 really different pokemon.

76. I counted. lol
At the top end of the list, there are a lot of singles.

[Scyris]

Originally posted by JCourtney:

Only 100 Pals? That doesn't seem like very many. Are they planning on adding more over time?

The game is early access, so the game is not complete. 100 is pretty good for a start for early access, actually surprized there is that many. Shortly after release they plan to release a 1 year roadmap/plan, if you check the faq in Events you'll see this.

[Soren]

Originally posted by 月の かじ:

Originally posted by Maitrepof:

Sure but most of them are just evolutions, So you actually have like 50 really different pokemon.

76. I counted. lol
At the top end of the list, there are a lot of singles.

Certain pokemon are flat out useless from start to finish in Gen 1. Onix being one who is neither available early on (so he can't add any early game utility), nor has the stats later to compete with pretty much anything. Who is to say if Palworld won't have a similar issue, but I'd argue as many as 10-20 are so low in their pokemon tier that they wouldn't even be usable in the Never Used tier.

[Herr Seeker]

I doubt all 100 will be available right at launch...also, i'd rather have fewer but more unique to collect/find/acquire ones than many copy-paste ones.

[True Draegos]

so to be more specific there is 75 Unique and 25 Variants at early access launch, Variants are different typing, moves, skills, looks, etc. but 70% the same as the original pal. (Bosses are included in this list) The only things you cant catch are the tower battles controlled by gym leaders, even tho you can catch humans themselves. They plan to to add-in 50+ more during the early access period before the game going into full release. (they haven't given specific details yet). But for example they have hinted at adding more Mechanics/gimmicks with the creatures.

[Wolfguarde]

1: 100 at launch is my understanding of things, with potentially 140 towards 1.0.

2: With the game being moddable somewhere down the track, I fully expect that the total capturable creature count will wind up a lot higher between vanilla and community content.

Imagine a survival/sandbox pokemon-like game with dynamic combat and the modding community/content variety of, say, Rimworld. That's very possibly where we're headed, if the devs set things up right.

[Kasa]

I think people going into this game expecting a pokemon like experience with guns are going to be sorely disappointed.

[DaxiraxJr]

More than you'd be able to catch regardless.

[Dokuujin]

Originally posted by JCourtney:

I was under the impression that Pokemon has like 300 or so.

Gen1 Pokemon started with 151. Nowadays it's more like 900. I'm unsure where you got 300.

Either way 100+ is a pretty damn reasonable amount of options for early access. I don't think ARK has even hit 100 creatures yet to this day, and that ♥♥♥♥ has been getting constant new creatures and updates for like 10 years.

Edit: I'm wrong, ARK apparently has just under 200 creatures now. but it launched with 25, lol.