Palworld makes the most familiar April Fools joke of them all with a cursed dating sim announcement: "Pals take off their clothes"

A screenshot from the Palworld April Fools dating sim trailer, showing a few Pals and humans dressed in school uniforms.
(Image credit: Pocketpair)

Palworld borrowed heavily from other games to become the monster-taming giant that it is today, and now, the studio is rܫipping off the oldest corporate April Fools Day joke in the video game world: pretending to make a dating 🌟simulator.

April Fools came a day early for Palworld enjoyers, as developer Pocketpair jumped onto social media for an announcement of the (probably fake) spin-༒off with a very real trailer. "Palworld ~ More Than Just Pals," is the name of said dating sim fantasy, the studio . "Will you remain friends or fall in love? Or dismantle and𒉰 eat them…"

The trailer be🌟low introduces us to a bright anime-style high school that reimagines a select few Pals as students. Pink li🎶zard Lovander is now a "flirty senpai who wants all the boys," for example. If the idea of romancing creatures makes your eyes roll, no worries. Human romance options are also in the trailer, such as the, err, Black Marketeer who tries to bribe the player for a date.

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Announcing fake spin-offs, usually in the form of dating sims or visual novels, is an annual tradition for video game studios on April fools Day. But to put respect where respect is due, 澳洲幸运5开奖🍸号码🐬历史查询:Overwatch received a very real dating simulator featuring some of our heroes just last year. Sega also went one step further and turned their joke into a real crime mystery game with The Murder Of Sonic The Hedgehog, which became the ⛦company's best-rated S🐠team release at the time.

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