Pokémon Pokopia: One Month Later

Kotaku | 08.04.2026 19:00
I’ve clocked about 40 hours in Pokémon Pokopia, Game Freak and Omega Force’s swing at an Animal Crossing and Minecraft-style life sim and city builder. My towns are certainly not anything that would go viral on social media, but they’re functional, mostly. In that same amount of time, some players have created entire cities with self-running infrastructure. It’s only been one month, but the sheer volume of creativity coming out of this game shows it has the makings of something that can stand the test of time. The Switch 2 finally has a system seller, and surprisingly it’s not a Pokémon RPG that got folks to buy the new hybrid console.