Detective Pikachu Returns
Solve mysteries with the personality-packed Detective Pikachu! Unravel a series of mysteries across Ryme City with a tough-talking, coffee-loving Pikachu who calls himself a great detective. This Pikachu may…
Detective Pikachu Returns is an adventure developed by Creatures Inc., released 6 October 2023 on Nintendo Switch.
What Detective Pikachu Returns is
Detective Pikachu Returns is an adventure game developed by Creatures Inc. and released in 2023. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the human-and-Pokémon metropolis of Ryme City, young Tim Goodman and his wisecracking partner, the coffee-loving talking Detective Pikachu, continue their search for Tim's missing father Harry while taking on new cases. When a wave of strange Pokémon-related incidents disrupts the city and a priceless jewel is stolen during a public ceremony, the unlikely duo are pulled into a sprawling new mystery. Following clues, questioning witnesses, and teaming up with the Pokémon they meet, Tim and Pikachu work to crack the case and uncover the hidden forces stirring up chaos across Ryme City.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Detective Pikachu Returns is the 282nd of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Scarlet + The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero in 2023. Its critic score of 66 is 8 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Detective Pikachu Returns holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Detective Pikachu Returns launched on 6 October 2023, within three weeks of Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Alan Wake II, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Detective Pikachu Returns yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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