Pokémon Legends: Arceus (2022)

- Developer
- Game Freak
- Publisher
- The Pokémon Company, Nintendo
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
- Rating
- 3.9 of 5, 215 player ratings
- Main story
- about 29 hours
- Where to get it
- Nintendo eShop
How it feels
Feels like discovering a wild, ancient world where you actively engage with creatures rather than just battling them.
explorationcollectingactionstrategicatmosphericimmersivechallenging
About
The Pokémon Legends: Arceus game honors past Pokémon games’ core gameplay while infusing new action and RPG elements. You’ll need to catch, survey, and research wild Pokémon in a long-gone era of the Sinnoh region to create and complete the region’s first Pokédex.
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