Best Pokemon games

The mix of RPG and Turn-Based arrived on September 28, 1996 first in Japan for Game Boy. The main story takes around 26.6 hours on average according to HowLongToBeat (single-player), so a medium-length game. Roughly 31.38 million copies were sold worldwide, making it one of the big commercial hits. Game Freak served as the primary developer. The title can also be played with others. The game world is shown in a top-down view. The title later received a re-release on a different platform, was released as a dual version in multiple parallel editions and has no online features at all. In NintenDoku it is the most popular answer among the Pokemon games and sits 39 percent ahead of #2.

The mix of RPG and Turn-Based launched on November 18, 2022 worldwide at the same time for Nintendo Switch. About 28.46 million copies were sold worldwide, making it one of the big commercial hits. On Metacritic it holds a Metascore of 72, with a user score of 3.5. Critically that counts as mediocre, among players as disastrous. Critics and community diverge sharply, a typical critics favorite. Beyond the single player mode there is a multiplayer mode. It is played from a third-person perspective. According to HowLongToBeat, the single-player main story takes around 31 hours on average, which makes it a long, meaty game. The game was released as a dual version in multiple parallel editions and offers optional in-game purchases. It was primarily developed by Game Freak. Among NintenDoku players it takes second place among the Pokemon games and sits 5 percent ahead of #3.

The simulation launched on March 5, 2026 worldwide at the same time for Nintendo Switch 2. The main story takes around 34.1 hours on average according to HowLongToBeat (single-player), so a long, meaty game. The title can also be played with others. Approximately 5 million copies were sold worldwide, a commercially very successful title. It is played from a third-person perspective and in a top-down view. The game offers optional in-game purchases. It was primarily developed by Koei Tecmo. Critics awarded a Metascore of 89, the community a user score of 8.7. Critics and community agree, rating it good. It rounds out the top 3 and sits 6 percent ahead of #4.