Palworldis comfortably summarised as ‘Pokemon with guns’, thanks to its too-familiar character designs and third-person machinegun combat.

It’s got more going on than that, though.

It’salsoPokemon with base building, Pokemon with sweat shops, Pokemon with corpse piles.

Some sheep-style creatures man machinegun turrets in Palworld.

A new developer tutorial explains how you might ‘use Pals efficiently’ by putting them to work for you.

“Catch a Pal.

Make it work,” advises developers Pocketpair, over footage of Pals constructing machinery and gardens.

“Goodbye!”.

I’ve enjoyedprevious Palworld trailers, but they’ve typically paired footage of Pals performing hard labour with music.

There’s good comic timing here.

And it’s not like there aren’t already lots of games about fighting creatures with guns.

If you think about it.

Palworld isdue to launch into early access in early 2024.