Pokémon Quest

• Title — Pokémon Quest • Developer — Game Freak • Publisher — Nintendo Switch'iOS/Android The Pokémon Company • Series — Pokémon • Engine — Unity • Platforms — Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS • Released — * Nintendo Switch • May 30, 2018 • Android, iOS • June 27, 2018 • Genre — Action role-playing • Modes — Single-player • Director — Tetsuya Watanabe • Producer — * Tetsuya Watanabe • Hitoshi Yamagami • Kazunori Sugiura • Takanori Sowa • Designer — * Takeshi Kawachimaru • Kei Setoguchi • Artist — Tsubasa Matsuzaki • Programmer — * Kazuki Saita • Satoshi Muramatsu • Composer — * Teruo Taniguchi • Takahiro Eguchi • Fumihisa Tanaka • Shinji Hosoe

Pokémon Quest features a blocky, voxel-style design similar to Minecraft. The game is set in Tumblecube Island, featuring cube-shaped Pokémon called "Pokéxel". The Pokémon featured in the game are from the original lineup from the Kanto region in Pokémon Red and Blue. In the game, players control the base camp and the Pokémon team. The player's main task is to complete all the levels on the island, beating the wild Pokémon. The game process can be divided into four parts: base camp management, going on expeditions, training and optimising Pokémon, and attracting new Pokémon.

The base camp helps the player progress in the game. Players are able to prepare dishes to attract new Pokémon, set up decorations for various effects, and receive new Pokémon that visit the campsite once every 22 hours. There is also a Poké Mart that allows the player to purchase DLC Packs, Decorations and Box Expansions. Players can also claim 50 PM Tickets (game's currency) every 22 hours, where the amount a player receives can increase with the purchase of DLC Packs. PM Tickets are used to purchase Decorations and Box Expansions, as well as instantly completing a dish and recharging the energy for Expeditions.

Players can attract new Pokémon by preparing food. For this, there is a cooking pot in the base camp. Depending on the ingredients, one of the 18 possible dishes will be cooked. Different dishes call on Pokémon of different types. Ingredients are obtained primarily from expeditions, but it can also be obtained from recycling unused Power Stones. Ingredients are classified by their colour, hardness, type and rarity. Rarer Pokémon are attracted to dishes that use rare ingredients. The cooking pot used determines the bonus stats and the level of Pokémon that it attracts, where the better the pot used the more ingredients it has to use to cook.

Pokémon can level up by going on expeditions or through training. Training a Pokémon uses other Pokémon to gain experience and once the training is done, the support Pokémon will leave. A player can also train their Pokémon to replace the Pokémon's current moveset, using other Pokémon as support Pokémon. If the player uses the same species or the same type of Pokémon as the support Pokémon, the amount of experience gained and the chances of changing a move is increased compared to using random Pokémon as support Pokémon. Although, the experience gained and the chances of changing the moveset decreases after every training done on the Pokémon. Each Pokémon have their own Power Charms, where special stones called "Power Stones" can be inserted to increase the Pokémon's stats. Mighty Stones increase attack and Sturdy Stones increase the HP. The stones can be put into the Pokémon's Power Stone slots. These stones may also contain special effects that improves various stats such as Movement Speed or Critical Hit Rate. Other than the Mighty Stones and Sturdy Stones, special kinds of rare stones can be put onto the slots next to the move of the Pokémon. These stones can give the moves further advantages towards their use. It is also noted that certain moves can equip certain types of special stones.

Pokémon Quest was announced during a press conference held by The Pokémon Company on May 30, 2018, and released on the eShop as a free-to-start title for the Nintendo Switch later that same day. It was also announced that a mobile version will be released for iOS and Android devices in late June 2018. Pokémon Quest was released on Android and iOS on June 27, 2018. It was the first Pokémon spin-off developed entirely in-house by Game Freak, the developers of the main Pokémon games. Since launch, Pokémon Quest has had no significant updates andapart from the Chinese version, where it is known as Pokémon Adventure Treasure Hunt only the first generation of Pokémon are included.

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