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Palworld Mobile by Krafton: Release Date and What PUBG Studios Is Building
The Krafton mobile release date sits inside a worldwide 2026 window with no exact day announced. Krafton is developing and publishing Palworld Mobile through PUBG Studios under a Pocketpair IP license, and the first playable demo appeared at G-STAR 2025 in Busan. Our Palworld tier list guides remain the reference for the Pal roles this version is built on.
Krafton mobile release date: what is actually confirmed
Krafton announced Palworld Mobile in October 2025 and stated a worldwide 2026 release. The first public, playable build ran at G-STAR 2025 in Busan from November 13 to 16, 2025. Nothing narrower than "2026" has been committed, so a precise launch day you find online is a guess.
Krafton's route to this project started earlier: PUBG Studios stood up a dedicated Palworld Mobile production team in 2024 and secured the license from Pocketpair, then hired combat and platform engineers through 2026 job postings that describe Unreal-based client and dedicated-server work. That is a live production, not a concept pitch.
What Krafton says the game keeps and adds
- Pal collection and raising carried over from the original game.
- Open-world survival and crafting rebuilt for touch controls.
- New "strategic battle" content built around individual Pal skills.
- Dedicated-server multiplayer work, based on Krafton's own engineering roles.
The honest read is that Krafton is aiming closer to the PC experience than to a spin-off, then layering on battle modes that suit short mobile sessions. Capture behavior is one of the systems being re-tuned, so plan with the base numbers: our mobile Pal catch rate calculators and capture rate table still give you the right shape of the odds.
Krafton versus Garena: two different mobile games
Both companies hold Pocketpair licenses, and both are shipping mobile Palworld products in the same window. Krafton's Palworld Mobile is a mobile-optimized survival game from PUBG Studios. Garena's Palworld Online is an MMORPG already in Korea-first pre-registration and closed beta — if you searched for a beta download, that is the one you want, covered in the Palworld Mobile by Garena guide. For the creature data behind both, start with all Palworld pals.
Palworld Mobile by Krafton FAQ
What is the Krafton mobile release date for Palworld Mobile?
Krafton has committed to a worldwide 2026 release for Palworld Mobile but has not published a day or month. The game was announced in October 2025 and shown publicly for the first time at G-STAR 2025 in Busan, where visitors played a hands-on demo.
Who is developing Palworld Mobile for Krafton?
PUBG Studios, Krafton's internal creative studio behind PUBG: Battlegrounds, is building Palworld Mobile under an IP license granted by Pocketpair. Krafton is both developer and publisher for this version.
Is Krafton's Palworld Mobile the same as the Garena beta?
No. They are two separate licensed games. Krafton's Palworld Mobile is a mobile-optimized take on the original survival game with new strategic battle content, while Garena's Palworld Online is a mobile MMORPG currently in Korea-first pre-registration and closed beta.
How do you play the Palworld mobile beta from Krafton?
There is no public Krafton beta right now. The only hands-on access so far was the G-STAR 2025 show demo. Watch Krafton's own channels for a test signup; store pages and invite waves are the first real signals, not third-party download links.
Will catch rates carry over from the PC game?
Krafton has said Palworld Mobile inherits Pal collection, survival and crafting from the original, but no mobile capture tables have been published. Use our sphere odds tools as a planning baseline and expect mobile-specific tuning.