Pokémon Pokopia is the highest-rated game in the series’ history: “It’s huge.”
Pokémon Pokopia revolutionizes the Pokémon franchise with its unusual premise: instead of capturing creatures and conquering gyms, we befriend them and build settlements.
A huge surprise in the Pokémon franchise, and we’re not referring to the announcement of Pokémon Winds and Waves during the last Pokémon Presents. Pokémon Pokopia is the next big bet in the series: a fun spin-off starring Ditto, where you must build and develop different settlements for your friends in the purest Animal Crossing style. Although it seemed like a minor title at first glance, its Metacritic score paints a very different picture, as it has become the highest-rated video game in the entire series.
Pokémon Rebellion: Pokémon Pokopia is crowned the highest-rated title in the entire franchise, and with good reason
Although Pokémon Pokopia will not go on sale until March 5, the first reviews of the game—including ours—are already available on Metacritic ahead of the launch. On this review aggregator, Pokopia has come close to achieving an outstanding rating, with a more than respectable 89/100, positioning itself as the best in the entire franchise despite its status as a “spinoff game.”
However, as more reviews continue to be published, it is possible that these strong initial ratings will stabilize. For now, at the time of publishing this news, the average score has fallen to 88, tying this title with Nintendo 3DS’s Pokémon Y, which previously held the top spot.
Pokopia has arrived at a very special moment: just in time for the franchise’s 30th anniversary, which took place at the end of February 2026. In addition, it is the first Pokémon video game developed exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2—it is not available on the 2017 Switch—which can be seen as a move to boost sales of Nintendo’s latest console.
Broadly speaking, Pokopia can be defined as “Pokémon’s Animal Crossing.” Instead of capturing these numerous and friendly creatures and battling with them, the objective of the game is quite different: it is a life simulator in which we control a Ditto that pretends to be human for the purpose of creating different communities where it can live in peace and harmony alongside other Pokémon.
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