Developer Pocketpair has signed an agreement with Krafton to bring Palworld to mobile platforms.
Krafton – which is perhaps best known for its work on PUBG – said this agreement will see the company “faithfully reinterpret and implement the main fun elements of the original for the mobile environment”.
Krafton’s subsidiary PUBG Studios will handle development of the mobile version of Pocketpair’s monster catching survival game, the company said.
Ahead of its initial release, many dubbed Palworld ‘Pokémon with guns’ due to its similarities with Nintendo’s own creature-catching game. It was the first big mega-hit of 2024, surpassing 2m concurrent players on Steam back in January. It was only the second game to ever achieve this, the other being – rather fittingly for this article – PUBG.