Pocketpair publishing lead John “Bucky” Buckley revealed that Slay the Spire 2’s massive launch—hitting over 570,000 concurrent players on Steam—had a surprising ripple effect: the CEO of Palworld, Takuro Mizobe, stayed up all night playing it, reportedly earning a telling-off from staff. As a result, Buckley jokes that Palworld 1.0 was delayed by at least a day due to this obsession.
