Palia

I want to like this game, I really do but there's just SO many bugs and visual errors that speak to an utter lack of care and devotion put into it. On top of that its just as monetary based, if not more, as mobile gatcha games (think Genshin Impact) expect, at least in those games you can earn the bought currency whereas in this you can't. 'But its free, you get what you pay for,' once again, so are the mobile gatcha games at at least they don't have bug lists the size of a pharmacy receipt, nor do they have bugs from the start of the game, 2 years ago. The story seems great, and the in game mechanics (fishes, mining ect) and dungeons are fun, its just the utter amount of bugs, visual errors and graphical glitches that, once again, just make it feel like a way to get money first and play a game second. The outfits in this are not cheap, hell, to buy the battle pass you have to spend £28!! That is asinine. Not to bring up Genshin again, but with that £28 you can buy the daily log-in rewards AND the battle pass that gives more rewards. Furthermore that's all they are, cosmetics. Not a new playstyle, new character or new technique to learn; cosmetic reskins or furniture. I enjoy playing but I do not like nor recommend this game

I love Hodari and their story, some of the story is interesting but really its just a cash grab disguised as a bad house decorating/love sim. Very weak on the love too. They don't seem to care about anything but their really over over priced store skins/items. Its not fun to play and was just running back and forth while grinding. If your into that sort of thing but I expected more. I don't even have faith in all these early access games anymore anyway they always take forever IF they ever come out fully. I had hopes for it but its not enjoyable and as someone who doesn't really make friends its not a game you can fully play alone since you need to team up for the tree chopping. 2/10 the two being possible only because of Hodaddy.

I will start this off by saying that I absolutely fell in love with Palia when I first found it. It was only after nearly 2 years of nonsense & BS that I’ve come to the conclusion that this game & its community are not worth my time, & I cannot recommend it to others in good faith. Riddled with bugs & glitches: The game is absolutely riddled with bugs & glitches. The devs keep releasing broken update on top of broken update. Some of these bugs have been around for multiple years, but there is very little effort being made to improve them. The team has demonstrated that they would rather keep churning out poorly made content & updates than fix what’s already there. Toxic community & Discord server: If you say anything to critique the game in the Palia Discord server, prepare for mutes, warnings & ultimately a ban. Other players will jump down your throat for critiquing the game, tell you to just leave if you don’t like the game & will report you to the mods, who almost always take the side of the player who is whiteknighting for the game. You’ll be told that you’re being ‘disrespectful’ & ‘bad-faith’ if you have anything negative to say about the game. This pattern has been established very clearly to me in the couple years that I spent in the server. Even if you don’t receive an official warning, any form of dissent will get you on the mods’ naughty list. As such, this server is not a safe place for constructive conversation about improving the game. Unfortunately the handful of helpful people in that server are overshadowed by the authoritarian attitudes of the mods & their support of players who tell you to just leave if you don’t like something about the game. Accessibility issues: The team recognized that the game has accessibility issues a couple of years ago. They promised in May of 2025 that they would team up with Microsoft for an accessibility audit of the game. That audit never happened & the game continues to cause seizures, migraines & other serious health issues in disabled players. I’ve heard multiple times of players being hospitalized due to lack of proper warnings, safety & accessibility options in the game. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there were some lawsuits afoot. They don’t even have basic VFX toggles, UI scaling or flash warnings. The game was not built with accessibility in mind & the longer they go without adding it, the worse it will continue to get. Console issues: The team doesn’t really seem to care about how the game runs on console. So if you’re a console player, be prepared to be told things like “you just need to buy a new controller/upgrade to a better console” because the team is too busy to investigate the actual sources of the issues that consoles have. & don’t even bother downloading it if you own a Switch or an older computer - it’s essentially unplayable & worsens with each update. Low quality updates & premium content, plushies being thrown at us to distract: Updates & premium content continue to disappoint more & more with each patch. Each time it is glaringly obvious just how rushed the patch was & just how many corners were cut. So many of the premium items are either broken or just look like crap. The colorways offered for the premium items are almost always lacking in thought & attention for which colors clash & which colors look harmonious with one another. New plushies are seemingly used as a distraction from how lacking & broken the game is in many areas. Lackluster story content: The story content leaves a lot to be desired. It doesn’t feel enthralling & engaging the majority of the time. It is difficult to really get into the story or the characters due to how shallow & poorly written the majority of it feels. Ranching is poorly done and yet, it’s the only skill being added to: They keep adding more & more types of ranch animals (despite not giving us more space for more ranch animals), but the skill is essentially useless because animals don’t really give anything helpful. There are a few exceptions to that, but overall I feel they should be more focused on refining & adding to other existing skills, such as adding more to the gardening & hunting skills, adding more types of processors & machines, improving the loathed fishing skill, working out kinks with the cooking skill, etc. Community events: Community events are organized haphazardly & often feel like they only exist to farm engagement, while the custom rewards for community events (like plushies & tints) take many months to become available in game. Limited decorating possibilities: People resort to using glitches to organize their decorations & rooms the way they want to and to be able to place furniture on the outer bounds of premium plots. People should not have to use glitches to place decors the way they’d like. There is a lot more that could be said, but I’m running out of space. Given all the major issues with this game, I will no longer be playing it & I will be telling everyone I know to avoid it.

I honestly can't think of one thing I don't like about this game. I have over 236 hours of play so far and can't wait to play more!

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Love the game. Amazing game for those new to gaming, perfect for beginners and otherwise. And its FREE! Extremely relaxed, hardly any pressure whatsoever. You gain experience fairly quickly in comparison to most other games. Love all the skills available and the guild stores for them. Perfect game for zoning out and chilling. Started playing 2 months ago and have since completed everything available to me (Max leveled Friendships/Dating, completed all main story, and got to level 10 or 20 in most of my skills in about 300 hours). Looking forward to new Bulletin orders and main story content. The characters are absolutely charming and fleshed-out. They all fall into a bit of a personality "trope" to hook you into the type of person they are and they get so much deeper the more you get to know them. There's something to like about each and every character. The main story line and world-building is so so attractive and compelling, the high-fantasy/down to Earth small town is very charming. Though I feel like we're barely scratching the surface when it comes to the world of Palia and its story. Drawbacks of the game? No marketplace/trading/selling of any Items. While I appreciate the lack of any competition in the game, it leads me to feel a bit aimless after all is done. No reason to collect much if its just going to be stored away. There is no real initiative or ways to be very social in-game. If you party up with players, it gives you bonuses but otherwise it seems like an "MMO" game that everyone is just parallel playing on. While the events such as the Bulletin Quests and Maji Market bring people to one spot, people still don't talk or do much together. Of course, I'd adore more clothing options. Though I do keep in mind it is a free game with most of its content readily available, and only the cosmetics being sold and other DLC. If I had the money to support I definitely would (maybe not $50 but would LOL). I definitely have noticed the difference in the Dev teams that many have mentioned, especially when it comes to dialogue and writing. Typos, run-on sentences, out of character moments, contradicting character moments. Need some Quality Assurance for sure!

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They were bought out a couple years ago and laid off most of the team, including story and art leads, and it's PAINFULLY obvious. The latest update is riddled with game-breaking bugs, but don't worry because the cash shop works perfectly fine and the new $30 costumes look great! The dev team hides behind "but it's in beta!!", but truthfully this is just a buggy pseudo-MMO that the new parent company wants to squeeze a little more money out of before they tank it.