All of the pokemon enthusiasts I know have flocked to the game and are loving it. The breeding/traits in particular.
I have been running a dedicated server with ~10 people on it since launch and it has been incredible.
We'll see how it looks in a month, but massive success out of the gate.
Regular Pokémon has breeding/traits
I know! That's a cross over in functionality that the serious (like, competitive, gen specific) pokemon players that I know are loving about palworld.
Palworld is certainly more interesting than Pokémon, especially as you can actually breed monsters together and make hybrids. I don’t know the specifics of the breeding yet however, but given the various traits on Pals it seems like that may be an interesting part as well. However I wonder if it will be as complex as Jogress lines in the old Digimon Story games.
Essentially, every Digimon (sans Calumon) can turn into every other Digimon, and moves can be carried over. So for instance, if you want a Gabumon with Pepper Breath/Baby Flame you go Agumon > Greymon > MetalGreymon > WarGreymon + MetalGarurumon = Omegamon, Omegamon + WarGreymon = MetalGarurumon, then devolve back down to Gabumon. I’m not sure if it’s still possible in the newer DS games, but I know I spent hours pouring over lists to make fun thematic Digimon.