Palia is a remarkably enjoyable and relaxing free-to-play MMO. It offers a solid storyline with the main storyline providing around 50 hours of content, and the completionist bundles providing a satisfying late-game challenge - attempting to find rare items. Skill levels are uncapped, allowing you to continue progressing and purchase premium furniture and decorations from the guild stores. A key strength of Palia compared to other free-to-play MMOs is that almost everything (except clothing and pets) is obtainable without spending money. These can be obtainable through in-game quests, weekly rewards, in-game currency, referral programs rewards and guild tokens. There's no pay-to-win system, and free players aren't limited in their ability to customise their plots to their heart's content. The game is incredibly cozy and relaxing as there are no punishments - you can't die or make incorrect dialogue choices.

Building relationships with the villagers is a fun experience, discovering their backstories and interrelationships. Achievements also offer an extra challenge, encouraging you to collect all the fish, bugs, minerals, hunt all the animals, and cook different sets of dishes. This gives an extra challenge on top of the completionist bundles as a wide variety of these items are not required. You can customise your house with different room combinations and extensions, and even create your own buildings and designs using generic blocks and flooring.

I find it surprising to see negative reviews from 50-100+ hours invested, especially given that some AAA titles don't offer nearly as much gameplay or as good of an experience these days in comparison with the price. While the main quests are currently somewhat short and awaiting further updates, there are regular content updates. What people fail to realise, as a free-to-play game, Palia's funding comes from in-game purchases and merchandise sales. Therefore, continued development of story content and funding of the studio depends on revenue from cosmetics and other in-game purchases.

Playing with friends enhances the experience. Partying up trying to hunt the rare chapaa, or finding the rarer items is always more fun - especially with added party loot bonuses. The social cooking aspect is also surprisingly engaging, turning a potentially tedious task into something enjoyable.

The community is generally very welcoming and helpful, with many players offering advice, items and information on the locations of rarer resources such as palium, flow trees and rare forages within the server. However, like any online community, you do have a few outliers who can be overly assertive and have a superiority complex.

There is a parkour section as well for players seeking an extra challenge, and an ability to showcase your plot off to other players and earn more in-game rewards.

While the game can be quite buggy at times, it seems the developers are actively addressing these issues with regular patches. I would love to see further use of the communities or larger parties in the future.

There are a few downsides though to Palia. Storage caps, even with the final tier chest upgrade, can be quite frustrating and restraining in the late game. Placing furniture and blocks can sometimes be finicky, with alignment issues and grass clipping through placed flooring.

Overall, Palia is a great game to play casually and relax with. The community is supportive, and the game offers 100+ hours of content if you aim to complete the current storyline, villager relationships and bundles. All completely free. After sinking many hours into this game, I was compelled to buy cosmetics to not only support the developers but give my character a unique touch.

前方叠甲：SW和E宝平台已经在这个游戏投入了200+小时

在提到游戏性之前，还要再说一下这游戏的优化真的宛如答辩。Switch上玩卡得飞起，SteamDeck上打开之后根本没办法操控。本身就是这样一个休闲类且还有点手游性质的游戏，如果一定要罚我坐在电脑前面玩，那我觉得这游戏甚至不如原神。

种地、伐木、采集、制作、送礼，本身是个非常良好的循环。但是目前游戏里的东西还是太少了，很多资源都只能消耗在摆设一样的家具上。再加上所有的建造步骤必须花费大量现实时间（你一定要去生生等几个小时只为了几个金属锭），导致Palia中后期开始就是玩一下然后挂机挂机挂机……

所以回到之前提到的，这游戏移动端上玩得宛如赤石，中后期会让人有一种上线玩一下然后马上下线，看都不想看一眼的疲劳感。

游戏中的NPC送礼系统也属于是乏善可陈，缺乏目标感。送礼要求高，每次的反馈也很普通。感觉自己想是个绝望的天狗……

如果你是那种玩动森都难以自拔的玩家，那Palia真的适合你，休闲+杀时间+真实联机（存在公共聊天频道）+Free to play。如果你是来找星露谷平替的，那真的不要玩这个游戏。非常的浪费时间浪费感情。

摩尔庄园Plus，但是月历新年差评