Palworld is Pocketpair's open-world Pal-collecting survival game — the 2024 phenomenon that sold 25 million copies in its first month and redefined the creature-collector genre. You catch Pals, breed them, equip them with firearms, and use them as both workforce and combat allies while building bases across a large open world. Palworld dedicated servers support up to 32 simultaneous players.
The official server binary ships via SteamCMD and accepts configurable difficulty, Pal death toggles, egg hatch times, damage multipliers, and base decay settings — all of which our panel surfaces as form fields rather than making you edit PalWorldSettings.ini by hand. Crossplay is supported between Steam and Xbox Game Pass clients; PlayStation crossplay is game-version-dependent and toggled per-server.
Palworld is surprisingly hardware-intensive for a survival game. Pal AI is the biggest single cost — dozens of simulated Pals per base, each with jobs, pathing, and combat logic, pushes the server CPU hard. We run Palworld on Ryzen 9 7950X / 9950X nodes because single-thread performance keeps Pal tick rates stable during large fights. 16 GB RAM is our recommended minimum for 32-player servers; below that you'll hit OOM during Alpha Pal encounters at high player counts.