Was gonna skip this but it was free on gamepass and honestly I'm having a lot more fun than I thought I would. The main appeal to me is the exploring and creatures which there is a nice variety of where it feels like I'm always encountering something new. I'm less fond of the building and resource-gathering elements which I don't find very fun luckily there is a nice amount of automation involving the pals you can catch which makes it a lot more tolerable. The game can be janky and buggy sometimes nothing game-breaking yet for me though and more along the humorous line with stuff like pals launching into the air and crappy ai. The performance for me is fine for the most part with pretty stable smooth fps the main problem being sudden crashes which I'm hoping get fixed. There are not really any new ideas in palworld but I wasn't really expecting that in the first place from a game where most of the pals look like dollar-store versions of certain pokemon but for what it is I'm having a good time with friends and it's more enjoyable than ark so it has got that too.