Palworld age rating: no PEGI or ESRB — DEJUS L, IGRS 13 on Steam

19 August 2026 · 4 min read

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Checked: Claude (AI) — fact-checked against the Ukrainian original; not proofread by a native speaker

According to Palworld’s official Steam page, the game carries four age-rating badges: DEJUS (Brazil) — “L”, IGRS (Indonesia) — “13”, Steam’s own Australian badge — “PG”, and Steam’s own German badge — “12”.

This isn’t a judgment on whether the game is “appropriate” or “inappropriate” for kids, and it’s not advice telling parents to ban anything. It’s a breakdown of what these specific badges on the Steam page actually mean, and why the same game gets different letters and numbers depending on the country. The Steam page doesn’t explain why each board reached its particular decision — you see the result, not the meeting minutes.

Where the different badges by country come from

There’s no single worldwide age-rating system for video games. Each country or region can run its own classification board with its own scale — in the US and Canada, for instance, the well-known system is ESRB, and across most of Europe it’s PEGI. Both systems are widely known, but neither shows up as a separate badge on Palworld’s Steam page — they’re mentioned here only as general background, not as a fact specific to this game.

Instead, Steam displays on each app’s page whatever badges that particular title received from the boards Steam works with. For Palworld, that’s four specific sources.

The four badges shown on Palworld’s page

• DEJUS (Brazil) — “L”. DEJUS is Brazil’s game classification board. The letter “L” is short for the Portuguese “Livre,” meaning “free” — no age restriction.
• IGRS (Indonesia) — “13”. IGRS is Indonesia’s game classification system. The number marks a recommended minimum age of 13.
• Steam’s Australian badge — “PG”. This is the badge Steam displays for the Australian market. “PG” is a category implying parental guidance while watching or playing, without a formal age ban.
• Steam’s German badge — “12”. This is the badge Steam displays for the German market. The number “12” marks the age from which the content is considered suitable.

The Steam page doesn’t explain why exactly these four boards rated the game and not, say, Japan’s CERO or Korea’s GRAC. It’s possible the game simply wasn’t submitted for classification to other boards, or that data hasn’t made it onto the Steam page yet — but that’s a guess, not a fact from the page, so we won’t state anything specific about it.

Content descriptors and an entry age gate

Beyond the four rating badges, Steam has a separate category called content descriptors, which spell out exactly what triggered a game’s rating — violence, language, gambling-like elements, and so on. Steam hasn’t assigned Palworld a single one of these.

The page also carries no age gate of its own — no interface asking a visitor to confirm their age before viewing the page, the way pages for games with explicit content sometimes do. For Palworld, the page shows no such prompt.

For more on where to start with the game itself, there’s a separate guide to Palworld’s first steps, and for playing with others online, see the guide to Palworld multiplayer and dedicated servers. Neither piece is about age ratings — we deliberately don’t repeat their content here.

What is not officially stated

• Why exactly these four boards rated the game and not others — the Steam page doesn’t say.
• The specific content that triggered each rating — there are no official content descriptors listed for Palworld.
• Whether the game has been or will be submitted for rating to ESRB, PEGI, or other boards — unknown.
• The internal criteria each board uses to set its scale — the Steam page doesn’t disclose them, only the final badge.

In short

Palworld’s Steam page shows four official badges — DEJUS “L”, IGRS “13”, the Australian “PG”, and the German “12” — with no content descriptors and no entry age gate at all; why exactly these four boards and why these particular decisions, the page doesn’t explain.