Palworld Company publishes a new horror game

Summary

Pocketpair expands to publication with a horror play from Surgent Studios.
Surgent Studio's upcoming horror game remains mysterious, described as “short and strange” by CEO Abubakar Salim.

Japanese company Pocketpair, the developer behind PalworldHas officially entered the publishing game and announced its new project, a horror game from Surgent Studios. Pocketpair has been around for a few years and had already established itself as a skilled developer with the early access version of Craftopia in 2020. But the studio really attracted attention with Palworldwhich was launched on PC and Xbox in early 2024 and came to Playstation 5 in September.

Despite the lawsuit Nintendo filed against PocketPair in September due to the similarities between Palworld'S Pals and Nintendos Pokémon, the company seems inappropriate. Perhaps this is because Nintendo only asks for what is about $ 65,000 USD, but Pocketpair recently revealed its ambitious roadmap for Palworldwhich is still available early even though it is almost a year old.

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Palworld reveals Early Access Roadmap

To celebrate its one -year anniversary, Palworld reveals some of his future plans for early access through a roadmap shared for the game's community.

However, the Japanese studio does not end by developing incredibly successful monster -term survival games. The company has been engaged in publishing earlier, with Never Grave: The Witch and the Curse, A Metroidvania that is currently being developed by Frontside 180. But on January 23, the company simultaneously revealed the creation of Pocketpair Publishing and its first project, a horror play by Surgent Studios. As a reminder, Surgent is a movie studio that joined the video game space in April 2024 with the launch of Tales of Kenzera: ZauAn impressive debut that has been nominated at several awards.

Pocketpair Publishing's first stint will be a horror game

Unfortunately, a little known about this upcoming horror game. Abubakar Salim, studio founder and CEO and voice behind the title Zau, has simply said that it “will be short and strange.” It is unknown whether it is separate from Project Uso, Surgent Studio's second endeavor, which was revealed in October. Inspired by the 1999 classic Planescape: tormentthat title will be an afro -rpg for a player with isometric graphics. However, USO's description of being “darker, Edgier and more visceral” does not match that it may be a horror game.

This announcement comes just months after Surgent Studios notified staff of potential redundancies while sought funding for their future projects. Hopefully, the collaboration with PocketPair means that the studio's financial prospects have improved, at least at the moment, and that its employees can feel safe by completing USO and this new horror game, if they are really separate projects. Despite Tales of Kenzera: Zau As many are considered to be one of the best Metroidvania's 2024, it obviously did not give the figures that the developer hoped for, since surgery employees were already facing a dismissal round in July 2024.