Palworld has broken Counter-Strike's all-time concurrent players peak at 1.8 million, and is now #2 most played game on Steam ever. It is only behind PUBG which holds the record at 3.2 million.
It's actually pretty good. there's a little jank but a lot of heart. I was surprised to see that Every pal had battle, working, eating, and petting animations.
You have to get the police after you, go into the boss battle tower and get the police to shoot the boss, bugging it out and freezing it, then you can catch it with the basic ball immediately.
It has like 90k health (which is extremely high for that level) and keeps Zoe riding on the back, if you let it out and return it to the ball, Zoe will remain floating in that spot indefinitely.