Palia

Players work to become members of the Kilima Village by gathering and crafting materials. Player skills include fishing, foraging, hunting, mining, insect catching, cooking, furniture making, gardening, and ranching. Kilima Valley is the hub area with Bahari Bay having higher-leveled resources and server-wide events based on the day/night rotation.

The player characters are humans who have suddenly arrived in the world of the Majiri, the predominant species in the game, and join their villages.

Palia is developed by Los Angeles-based studio Singularity 6 and was announced on June 3, 2021. An open beta for Windows was made available on August 10, 2023. A Nintendo Switch version was released on December 14, 2023. The game was released on digital storefront Steam on March 25, 2024, while the developers clarified that the game remained in open beta. The game continued to receive content updates once a month until early 2026, when updates switched to an irregular schedule to prepare for the release of the upcoming Royal Highlands Expansion.

One month after the game's release, Singularity 6 laid off 49 employees, or 35 percent of its staff. Another 36 employees (40% of the workforce) were laid off in May 2024, making this the third round of layoffs since September 2023. In July 2024, Daybreak Game Company acquired Singularity 6 and Palia.

Marshall Cass for Polygon has said that Palia's success relies on its update schedule. Lauren Morton for PC Gamer said while it isn't "quite there yet", its foundation is solid. Stewart Marcus, writing for Game Informer, stated it has a strong foundation and potential. Sam Loveridge for GamesRadar+ said Palia "has everything I want" from a life sim.

com said it has some promise but criticized the monetization. Tyler Edwards writing for Massively Overpowered stated the MMO depth and execution isn't good enough. Polygon's Cass criticized the "cash shop" prices.