Palworld’s long-awaited PlayStation 5 release shadow-dropped yesterday, September 24 after an announcement during Sony’s State of Play broadcast, but while gamers in 68 countries worldwide were downloading the survival and crafting game dubbed 'Pokémon with guns' on PlayStation,

Palworld has been surprise-released on PS5, but unfortunately, the situation is a little more complicated if you happen to be in Japan.

Pocketpair has confirmed that it will endeavour to release Palworld in Japan "as soon as possible", but with Nintendo's lawsuit casting a shadow over the game's release elsewhere, we'd be remiss to even attempt to predict a potential release date at this time.