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Pokémon Emerald Rogue (2022)

Pokémon Emerald Rogue cover
Developer
Pokabbie
Platforms
Game Boy Advance
Genres
Role-playing (RPG), Indie
Main story
about 53 hours
Completionist
about 42 hours
Where to get it
Website

How it feels

A Pokemon roguelike hack that turns the familiar journey into a tense, ever-escalating procedurally-generated gauntlet.

rpgrogueliketenseunpredictablechallengingfantasy

About

Ever wondered what Pokemon might look like as a Roguelike? When you go on an adventure all routes, encounters and items will be procedurally chosen based on your progress into a run. After a certain number of routes you will encounter a random gym leader who will have a procedurally chosen team of their assigned type; as you progress further into a run gym leaders and other trainers will start using more difficult setups for their pokemon. If you can make it all the way to the champion and defeat them, then you will have completed the run! Once you complete or wipe out of a run you will go back to a hub area where you can buy permanent items and catch new "starter" Pokemon to use in the next run. As you progress further into the run, you will unlock more buildings/NPCs in this hub area to use for preparing the next run.

Screenshots

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