This week Steam made a small change to how it displays reviews and will now show a score for reviews in your language instead of an “all reviews” score. One game that has benefited from the change is Palworld, which now shows Overwhelmingly Positive for all English reviews.
Palworld has been the source of some controversy since it first came to the public’s attention, with some claiming the monster-collecting title is a direct rip-off of Pokemon–an opinion that seems to be shared by Nintendo, who eventually sued developer Pocketpair for patent infringement. The game has still proven popular with players, reaching huge player numbers in its first month of release.
While Palworld used to show an all-time review rating of Very Positive on Steam, the reviews update has given the game a small boost in English, granting it the coveted Overwhelmingly Positive rating. The upgrade was celebrated by Pocketpair’s communications director and publishing manager John “Bucky” Buckley, who posted to X about the milestone. Bucky clarified in the comments that Palworld isn’t rated particularly low in any language–it “just happens to be higher in English,” he said in a reply.
