Is it sandbox or progression ?

[Itchy_Scrotbag]

Looking to buy , Would like something with direction though. Cheers

[NIkto Barada]

sandbox, no campaign, your level progresses via techtree, think ARK survival evolved with pals instead of dinos.

[Itchy_Scrotbag]

Originally posted by NIkto Barada:

sandbox, no campaign, your level progresses via techtree, think ARK survival evolved with pals instead of dinos.

Ok, Cool. Is there much to do to keep busy ?

[Yal]

You have a tutorial / mission list thing guiding you through a big chunk of the game, but mostly you "make your own fun" (there's a lot of stuff to find by exploring, but upgrading your base is the main way you get stronger to take on harder enemies, so you gotta mess around a bit in both)

(I've played for like >250 hours and I still haven't beaten the new Feybreak boss, I got close last attempt but I need to do some slight optimizations to my equipment and team first)

[Fxmodder]

Originally posted by Itchy_Scrotbag:

Looking to buy , Would like something with direction though. Cheers

basically if Ark had a baby with pokemon, it is an openworld sandbox where you have Ark progression with a techtree level up, you capture pals and beat tower bosses, i came back to the game a couple weeks ago since i missed alot of big updates, glad i came back cause they fixed alot of the bugs i used to have, and i love the feybreak update, so all in all, i do recommend it

[Fxmodder]

[/quote]Ok, Cool. Is there much to do to keep busy ? [/quote]

since feybreak release i have an extra 100hours and still going up

[Tetsuri]

Originally posted by Itchy_Scrotbag:

Originally posted by NIkto Barada:

sandbox, no campaign, your level progresses via techtree, think ARK survival evolved with pals instead of dinos.

Ok, Cool. Is there much to do to keep busy ?

not yet, they're still adding content

[White Rabbit Alice]

right now in the form of "repeatable" content, we have pals that you can challenge over and capture that are alphas, and bountys that you can turn in for rewards.

[drakeloreroar]

Basically the "busy work" atm is a whole lot of RNG stuff. Like you can clear the hardest stuff without them but if you want the very best weapons and armor buckle up for 1000 hours of running the same stuff over and over lol.

That being said depending on how you play your mileage will differ. Turning Exp rates down will extend the life of the game and once you've gotten a handle on the game there's a randomizer mode and hardcore you can run (at the same time if you really want to suffer).

[Killial]

I will share my opinion, after more than 500 hours of playing.

Overall - it is more of a sandbox with elements of indirect story (although, probably the main reason for this is early access, and the plot, perhaps, has not been given much attention yet, except for hidden logbooks).
However, you have a goal - there are several islands and each has its own local boss, which you are kind of offered to defeat. This is your goal at the moment, which sets the motivation to progress. So yes, there is progression here too.

The game has enough content to keep you busy with exploration and development for many hours. Although, to be honest, most of it is based on hard grinding and just drags out your time - BUT, at the same time, the game has a flexible difficulty setting, in which you can personally (if you play solo) set the game the way you like it. For example, you can increase the amount of resources mined, or experience gained, if you do not like the drawn-out development in this direction. Even make your enemies or yourself stronger or weaker. And thus you can flexibly customize quite a lot of elements of the game for yourself.

The most fun you'll probably have is in the first 100 hours of the game, when you don't know anything yet (and I highly recommend not using the wiki to spoil content for yourself). After that, the game will either hook you and you'll enjoy the grind, or the game will choke you and you'll either be forced to change your difficulty settings or go online and look up things you don't know yet to make your grind less overwhelming.

[Itchy_Scrotbag]

Thanks all, I will now research Enshrouded and see. Thankyou

[Irene ❤]

Originally posted by Itchy_Scrotbag:

Is it sandbox or progression ?

Yes

[NIkto Barada]

well. ARK exists longer and allows workshop mods. and theres a few , most mods on nexus dont give new tech for palworld at least. arks mods copy stuff from all over , like arcanum of magicka and steamworks steam powered armor.
you could check both games wiki for the technology to available.
overall i d want palworld to make expansion packs instead of entirely new games, i simply get attached to some of my lugheads

[White Rabbit Alice]

I Have Enshrouded as well. i recommend both, but if you can only pick one,id have to say PalWorld over it.