Palworld is 30% off on Steam right now — and it's about to blow up
Palworld 1.0 is discounted 30% on Steam — €20.29 instead of €28.99. With the 1.0 launch fresh, expect a player spike. Here's the deal and what to do first.
Palworld is on sale on Steam right now. The store page shows a Special Promotion at 30% off: €20.29 instead of the usual €28.99, with a countdown timer rather than a fixed end date. Prices and the exact cut vary by region and currency, and a timed promotion can end at any point — so treat the figures here as a snapshot from July 22 and check the live Steam page before buying.
The timing is the real story. Palworld 1.0 (update 1.100.427) only landed on July 10, bringing the Sunreach and World Tree regions, a level cap raised from 65 to 80, and the new Mutation and Awakening systems. A first discount arriving this close to a major 1.0 launch is the combination that tends to pull a big new wave of players in at once — a full-content release and a lower entry price hitting the same week. In plain terms: this is exactly the window where the player count spikes.
If you buy in, don't start blind. Pocketpair officially recommends a fresh start for 1.0, so both routes on this site are built on that premise. New players should open the Newcomer Route for a clean level-1-to-endgame path; returning Early Access players should start with the Veteran Route, which opens with what your old knowledge gets wrong in 1.0.
One practical note for returning players carrying an old world in: let the game update fully and make a manual backup of your save outside the Palworld folder before loading it, and keep any Early Access mods removed until their authors support 1.0. The buy is cheap; a lost long-running world is not.