Pikmin 4
Meet Pikmin, small, plantlike creatures you can grow, pluck, command, and overpower your enemies with! These curious helpers come in different types—fire is no sweat for Red Pikmin and the brand-new Ice Pikmin…
Pikmin 4 is an adventure developed by Eighting, released 21 July 2023 on Nintendo Switch.
What Pikmin 4 is
Pikmin 4 is an adventure game developed by Eighting and released in 2023. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When Captain Olimar's ship suffers a freak accident and crash-lands on the mysterious, Earth-like planet PNF-404, he is forced to recruit the strange plant-like creatures known as Pikmin to help recover its missing parts. After sending out a desperate SOS along with his voyage logs, Olimar inexplicably vanishes while continuing his search. His distress call reaches the Rescue Corps, an intergalactic rescue organization, which dispatches a team led by Captain Shepherd to save him. But their ship malfunctions on arrival, scattering the crew across the planet's surface. With the mission in jeopardy, the Rescue Corps' newest recruit, the player, is sent down to locate the missing rescuers and…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Pikmin series
Pikmin 4 is the 39th of 41 entries we hold in the Pikmin series. The next entry was Pikmin Finder in 2023. Its critic score of 88 is 5 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 4 holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 35 hrs.
What it launched against
Pikmin 4 launched on 21 July 2023, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Overwatch and Viewfinder. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. 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: Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Overwatch, Viewfinder.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pikmin 4 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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