Pikmin 3
Explore an alien world like no other in the third edition of Nintendo's strategic adventure series. In Pikmin 3, players take command of three explorers and a legion of adorable Pikmin in a fight for survival…
Pikmin 3 is an adventure developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.4, released 13 July 2013 on Wii U. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Pikmin 3 is
Pikmin 3 is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EAD Software Development Group No.4 and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The inhabitants of the planet Koppai are facing a devastating famine, their world stripped bare by a booming population and dwindling resources. Desperate for a solution, they send survey ships across the galaxy in search of new sources of food, and one returns with promising news of a distant, fertile world teeming with cultivable life. Three Koppaite explorers, the engineer Alph, the botanist Brittany, and the captain Charlie, are dispatched to this planet to gather the food that could save their people. But when their ship malfunctions and crash-lands, the trio are scattered across an unfamiliar wilderness. Stranded and separated, each must rely on the strange plant-like creatures known…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pikmin series
Pikmin 3 is the 28th of 41 entries we hold in the Pikmin series. It arrived 8 months after Nintendo Land. The next entry was Issho ni Photo Pikmin in 2013. Its critic score of 86 is 3 points above the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Pikmin 3 holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 90 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs.
What it launched against
Pikmin 3 launched on 13 July 2013, within three weeks of Dota 2, Rogue Legacy, Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World and Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dota 2, Rogue Legacy, Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World, Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pikmin 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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