Palworld finally leaves early access on 10 July, and the 1.0 update is the biggest the game has ever had. A much bigger world, a pile of new Pals, and it lands on PS5, Xbox and PC.
Pocketpair has locked in a date. Palworld goes to its full 1.0 release on Friday 10 July 2026, after roughly two years in early access. The studio announced it at Summer Game Fest in early June, alongside the game's first proper cinematic trailer. It stays on the platforms it already runs on, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
The headline is size. 1.0 adds a whole new area built around the World Tree, with a lot more land to explore than the 2024 launch. There are more new Pals arriving than in any previous update, and the team has been teasing 27 pages of patch notes. This is the big one people have been waiting on.
If you missed what Palworld is, it is a survival crafting game where you catch and build a team of creatures called Pals, then put them to work, base building, fighting, farming, all of it. It is the kind of game my kids clock straight away because it hits the same nerve as collecting monsters, and it plays well in short bursts you can come back to. The extra land means there is a genuinely big world here to sink into if you have got the time.
I have not played the 1.0 build, so this is a heads up rather than a review. But a game that has sat in early access this long finally calling itself finished, with a lot more world to roam, is worth putting on the radar.