Palm Social

If you grew up logging into a virtual world after school, you know the feeling. You weren't there to win anything. You were there to see who was online, show off a room you'd decorated and lose a pleasant hour. A lot of those worlds have closed or moved into apps.

Palm Social brings the idea back as a beach town in a browser tab. Its about page calls it a cozy social life-sim "in the spirit of games like Club Penguin, Habbo, Animal Crossing and The Sims," set in a realistic 3D town. You create a free account, pick a server and walk in. There's nothing to download.

It's the work of Kirouff Games, an independent solo developer, and it opened to the public on October 24, 2026.

Most of the game is other people. You meet players around town, chat, add friends and leave notes in guestbooks. Your own home is yours to design. You lay out rooms, furnish them and make the place feel like you.

Down by the water you can surf and play beach games. In town there's a gym for a workout, a café for a coffee and shops to browse. The news feed shows steady additions since launch, including café deliveries, fresh beach shells and a Farmers' Market stall in Palm Plaza, plus a daily reward and tasks.

Some in-game characters can talk using AI. When those features are on, the text prompts go to Anthropic, the game's AI provider, and only text is sent.

Palm Social is free to play. When Gold packs are on sale, you can buy fixed amounts of in-game coins for real money through Stripe. The terms promise never to sell random or chance-based items for real money, and coins and items have no cash value and can't be sold. The community rules also ban gambling with coins between players.

Players must be at least 13, and anyone under 18 needs permission from a parent or guardian. That matters here, because the game has public chat and direct messages between players. The rules cover all of it, and reporting and blocking are built in.

According to the privacy policy, last updated October 29, 2026, the game is run by Josh Kirouff, doing business as Kirouff Games in California. Public chat messages are deleted automatically after 24 hours, while direct messages are kept for as long as your profile exists. There are no advertising trackers or personalised ads, and personal information isn't sold.

If you've been missing a low-stakes world to wander with friends, pick a server and take a walk down to the beach.