could be on its way to a mobile device near you. Krafton, the publisher of , has agreed a licensing deal with the game’s maker, Pocketpair, to bring the smash hit to mobile.
Krafton’s PUBG Studios will develop the mobile version. No other details have been announced, other than to note that PUBG Studios will “reinterpret” Palworld’s gameplay for mobile devices, per an automated translation of a press release (which is ). So it’s not completely clear whether this will be a faithful port of the full game or a spinoff that has some of the same features.
Palworld debuted in January and it was an instant hit, selling in eight hours and 15 million on Steam alone within a month. It also quickly reached 10 million players on Xbox and was . Palworld then suddenly in many markets last week.
However, there’s a reason that Palworld isn’t available on PS5 in Japan for now. The game’s similarity to Pokémon (here, you also catch a variety of monsters, but some of ‘em have guns and you can also eat them) caught the attention of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The latter indicated in January that it was . In September, the two companies in Japan for alleged patent infringement.
