
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
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| Store | Price | Score | Revenue · chart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam | Free | 86% | approximately $0 |
| PlayStation | Free | 74% | — |
| Nintendo | Free | — | — |
Matched by title. Prices and chart positions are each store's US storefront; Epic charts worldwide. * critic score.
Reviews
Themes across 1368 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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Reviews
New update causes the game to crash every 3 minutes
Cozy game, cool content, low cortisol gaming. 6/10. Feels like Animal Crossing meets Stardew Valley. I've played since beta. It looks like I don't have a lot of hours because I was using the game's client before I swapped over to Steam. I really, really, REALLY, want to give this game a 10/10, but having put in more hours than my daily job, I can only give it 6/10. There's a lot to improve on, and I believed in their vision, but I have to stop being delulu and be honest about how disappointing their delivery has been. For starters, I'll admit that I'm wanting too much out of Palia. I like everything Palia already has, but I keep wanting it to have something like Genshin's many regions. I just see how much it could be, but isn't... yet. Ever since I started playing 3 years ago, I wanted them to add a mount--took them 2 years but then finally did even though back then they said they had no plans to back then. I wanted them to add a dungeon/mines like Stardew Valley since all the mobs in game are passive and run away from you. But we physically don't have an HP bar and I guess the devs didn't want to add one to keep in theme with "cozy sim low-cortisol gaming", I wanted them to add more regions with more npcs, but I'm still stuck with the same village and only 5 new npcs. Instead of feeling like I can venture out and bring cool stuff back to my house, I'm just stuck in a small and slowly expanding bubble of rinse and repeat. With how successful and profitable this game is, we should be getting fuller updates. Maybe it'll be what I want it to be after another 2-3 decades. That's how slow it feels for a game that's making more money than an indie game. You're telling me after 3 years, we only have 3 regions and 5 new npcs? Why is it after 3 years we're still capped at 1k focus and no new way to raise it higher? Why is there no overeating option like Raft where I can't eat anymore, but the excess food gets temporarily added to my bar so it doesn't go to waste? Why is it I'm just sitting on maxed renown that I can't spend on? The game hides behind it's beta shield as many others have said and agree with. I haven't encountered enough bugs to be peeved about it. The game has an unstuck button which usually fixes things most of the times. And if it doesn't, loading to a new area (reloading screen) or changing to a tool in hand usually fixes it. I think Switch players probably have to deal with the annoying bugs, whereas mine are easily fixable so they don't annoy me--or I've just grown accustomed to the typical bugs in all games.
Very relaxing game, I mostly play it on PS5 but imma leave a review here :) ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☑ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
This might be a bit “strange” to say so early on in the game, but this game genuinely makes you feel at home, you forget everything and your mind is elsewhere. It is so comforting. Even the people who play this game are super nice and friendly, they often help you and inspire you to be like them. Wonderful game and such a wondeful community. I wish i played this game sooner, it is such a gem, like finding diamond in your backyard. The character designs are amazing aswell, i love them all equally as much. Even Tau (the dog), i love him. I am sure i will keep on grinding this game for a lot of time since it makes me feel better. Maybe even good about myself. Something a little different now, in game there might be some bugs/glitches, for example at the islands for the temple, you have to go a specific route to activate a flow thingy. Kinda annoying, but worth the grind. Anyways, i highly recommend this game, go play it <3
I've been playing this game since it released in closed beta, my steam hours don't reflect how many hours I actually have in this game as I was playing it before it came to steam. I really liked it at first, until they started pushing paid cosmetic bundles and then it really just left a bad taste in my mouth. I'll start by saying that I fully acknowledge that this game is free-to-play, and that the Devs need to make their money somehow. I don't mind paid cosmetics or battle passes in games, and if I like a game enough I am obviously going to support it as most people do too. But there's something that very much bothers me about a game that does absolutely nothing to update it's base character customization options as it grows, especially in a game where customization, crafting and building are some of the key points, while continuing to push out load after load of paid for cosmetics that on top of it are quite expensive. I guess it would be more okay if Palia had an armor or clothing crafting system, if there were more options to learn and to access for free instead of just the very minimal options offered to you at the start of the game, but it doesn't, so your character just feels like the one thing in the world that's entirely flavorless and without personality. Unless you pay 40$ to not look like a thumb.
ive been playing this off and on since it was in closed beta its cute and fun but the force feeding of the LGBTQ stuff is just too much it makes it not fun or enjoyable stop preaching and forcing this crap into every game and every media content in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world its old and frankly stupid.
I'm reaching my limits with this game... Pros: -Many sim-related mechanics for variety of players, farming and fishing can be relaxing. - Building your house is fun and mostly without limit, minus second floors being editable and hallways not being able to connect to side walls of other hallways. -Villagers are unique, interesting, interactable, and even personable in some cases. Romancing and friending them is also a plus for players interested. -Team or Party bonuses are a plus, and you don't have to be friends or in a party for other players to benefit when you work together. -Trading encouraged as well as player interaction encouraged. The more the merrier. Cons: -Cooking mechanics have fluctuating bugs that are really only fixed by entering and exiting the housing menu, costing cooking time -Grinding for rare bugs, hunting creatures, and fish can be time consuming and often unrewarding when you have to have 2-3 boosters of some kind just to catch frantic flipping fish. -Trading with other players is helpful when other players do not have the same items you do, there should be an additional bartering system where you can exchange duplicate artifacts instead of having to repeatedly ask people to help or having to grind multiple servers for items due to limited spawn points per server. -Walls are inconsistent in whether they are a climbable surface or not, especially in areas like Bahari, Temple of the Gales, and Royal Highlands with little or no visible defining differences between them. You'll be climbing with near full stamina in some areas and randomly drop grip or meet an invisible wall that makes little sense to exist. -The mount system is rough. Maybe if it weren't limiting your forward and backward to speed up and slow down and allowed full directional control the way they do the player it would not be such an issue to me, but it's a minor complaint in this sea of whining. -Introducing new cosmetics and pretty character animations that lag out other players in server because there's little optimization to smoothing out gameplay. Had to externally limit frames just to stop my game freezing every 5 footsteps. I've put so many hours into this game and have had many great times in it but I'm finding it more and more frustrating to complete quests with recent updates because bug fixes are seemingly a very little priority in what the devs want to focus on. The nerve to have $60 dlc but not better optimize the game for players with pcs that aren't windows 11, that doesn't also require those players to have external limiters just so the game doesn't burn up PCs, is a huge middle finger to those that can only play the free version. We deserve a good player experience whether we buy premium content or not.
10 из 10! Эта замечательная бесплатная игра с открытым миром, в котором можно бегать и взаимодействовать с друзьями. Прокачивать персонажей, менять облик, наряды, покупать различные предметы, строить свой мирок. Однозначно рекомендую, отличная игра, чтобы почиллить вечерами! https://rutube.ru/video/c27642a35af8180a67c745dd67e612c2/
C'est avec une certaine déception que j'écris cette revue négative sur ce jeu qui me tient à cœur. Présent depuis là bêta jusqu'à ce jour pour soutenir ce jeu cosy et chill qui se veut free to play sans jamais faire payer ses joueurs autres que pour des objets purement cosmétiques. Cependant aujourd'hui leurs objectifs ont changés, vous pouvez désormais acheter de la place en plus dans vos coffres (et ça on en manque cruellement) Merci de briser vous mêmes vos règles écrites noires sur blanches encore aujourd'hui sur votre site ! En espérant voir un changement drastique de direction et un abandon de tous bonus en jeu payant
Wow congrats on most broken update! I used to love this game. But today i reinstalled for the first time in like a year, immediately fell through the floor when using the teleport feature, and the unstuck button dropped me even lower in the map and now all i can do is log on to fall infinitely until the teleport timer cools down. I played less than 2 minutes and i already uninstalled. The only "solution" is to wait half an hour for the teleport cooldown. Not putting a respawn net under your map KNOWING people fall through the floor alot is just bad game dev behavior. Deeply disappointed. Likely will not return because they dont fix bugs, they just add content.