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Pokémon Pokopia

Play a Ditto that's taken human form and build a Pokémon paradise from the ground up — craft, terraform and befriend 300 species across a living, real-time island.

  • Nintendo Switch 2
  • Released Mar 5, 2026
  • Metacritic 89
  • Life-sim · Sandbox

Overview

Pokémon Pokopia is a cozy life-simulation and sandbox game from Game Freak and Koei Tecmo's Omega Force, released worldwide for Nintendo Switch 2 on March 5, 2026. You play as a Ditto that has transformed into a human — customise its look, gather materials, craft a home, and coax 300 Pokémon from every generation to settle a living island.

Gameplay

The loop is gather → craft → terraform → attract. Befriended Pokémon teach your Ditto their signature moves, which become your tools for reshaping the world. Rather than catching Pokémon, you invite them: build the habitat a species prefers and it moves in. A real-time day-night cycle and weather change what appears, and you can rest in bed to pass the time.

Critics called it "a spiritual combination of Minecraft, Viva Piñata and Animal Crossing" — it launched as the highest-rated Pokémon game on Metacritic.