Palworld, the game everyone has been calling "Pokémon with guns" for the past two years, launches Friday, but streamers have already begun broadcasting ahead of the launch. On Wednesday morning (Pacific time), Palworld had about 60,000 viewers on Twitch, and that number has been steadily climbing throughout the day. As of this writing, "Fortnite" has about 85,000 viewers, which is right in line with "Fortnite."

Traffic is fairly well distributed among a healthy number of streamers, so Palworld's developers clearly did not just pay a few big-name sponsors for a big launch. (Although it helps that the fourth largest star by Twitch followers, Spanish-Norwegian streamer Rubius, is currently broadcasting to about 21,500 people.)

Palworld seems to be the viral hit the developers were clearly aiming for with each trailer depicting your "Pals" being put to work in a factory, armed with machine guns, or slaughtered for meat.

Streamers began to discover other strange things they could do with Palworld:

Capture and sell humans...

Using burning fox pals as flamethrowers...

Shoot eggs out of pal's ass like a grenade launcher...

... And slaughter the humans and pals trapped in the palsphere...

Despite some obvious shenanigans here and there, Palworld is scheduled to launch in Early Access on Friday, and the game seems to be working well for most streamers. There will be plenty more viral clips of Pals, both hilariously and horribly handled, over the next few weeks.