Dragon City

VS

Palworld

Dragon City is a long-running free-to-play mobile and browser simulation and strategy game released by Social Point in 2012. While its peak has long passed, it remains popular with a steady, casual audience, largely on mobile platforms due to its social features, regular content updates, and monetization model. Mobile simulation games with widespread global reach and social mechanics generally retain a healthy active user base years after release, though much lower than at their height.

Palworld is a survival/adventure sandbox game released in January 2024 by Pocketpair. It experienced an explosive launch with millions of sales and high concurrent player counts on PC. Since launch, player counts have declined from their peak but remain strong for a new multiplayer survival game, thanks to active updates and ongoing community engagement. It's not an MMO, as servers are typically limited to smaller group sizes and don't feature a true persistent, massively multiplayer world.