Pocketpair

What Pocketpair is

Pocketpair, Inc. is a Japanese company whose own company page gives its business as game planning, development and operation. The same page lists the corporate name as Pocketpair, Inc., names Takuro Mizobe as chief executive, gives April 2015 as the founding date and lists the office as being in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. The company describes itself on its English site as a group of creators who love making games, and states that it recruits people who want to build games that could not be made elsewhere.

Palworld is the title the studio is best known for, and the company maintains separate support channels for each version of the game it ships. Pocketpair keeps its company information deliberately short. The page gives the corporate name, the chief executive, the founding date and the office location, then lists enquiry addresses for support, streaming and licensing. The English version of the site carries the same short self-description, describing the company as a group of creators who love making games and saying it is recruiting for roles on games it believes cannot be made elsewhere.

Palworld

Palworld is described by its developer as a multiplayer open world survival and crafting game in which players fight, farm, build and work alongside creatures called Pals. The game's official product page lists supported platforms as Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and the App Store, and the title has been localised into a long list of languages including English, Japanese, Korean, French, German and both simplified and traditional Chinese. The Steam store page lists Pocketpair as both developer and publisher.

It records an early access release date of January 18, 2024 and a full release date of July 9, 2026, and shows more than 75 Steam achievements for the game. The Steam store page describes the game's features as single-player play, online co-op and cross-platform multiplayer, and lists Steam achievements, trading cards, Workshop support and cloud saves. It also records 75 in-game achievements and shows that the game supports interactive online elements. The official Pocketpair product page adds that players can capture weakened creatures and set Pals to work on production lines and farms.

How the company sells and supports Palworld

Pocketpair's company page routes players and partners to different addresses depending on what they need. Support requests for Palworld are separated by platform, with distinct contact addresses for the Steam version, the PlayStation 5 version, the Xbox Series S|X and Xbox One versions, the Xbox personal computer version and the Mac version. The same page lists a separate contact for licensing and business enquiries relating to Palworld, alongside general and streaming-related addresses. That structure suggests the company handles commercial partnerships for the game in house rather than through a third-party publisher, which matches its role as both developer and publisher on storefronts.

Ownership and independence

Pocketpair publishes a short company page and does not list a parent company or outside owners there. It names Takuro Mizobe as chief executive and gives the business as planning, development and operation of games, with no mention of a group structure. The studio's releases are marketed under its own name. The Palworld product page is hosted on Pocketpair's own domain, and the Steam listing for the game carries Pocketpair as both developer and publisher, which is consistent with an independent studio handling its own releases.

Games

• Craftopia
• Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse
• Overdungeon
• Palworld
• Palworld: Palfarm

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