When did Pokémon Conquest come out?

Pokémon Conquest was released on 17 March 2012 for Nintendo DS.

Pokémon Conquest (2012) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pokémon Conquest

Pokémon Conquest is a strategy game set in the Ransei region. You play as a Warlord of the Primus Kingdom, one of the 17 Kingdoms in the Ransei region. You are charged with the task of battling against a wide…

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What Pokémon Conquest is

Pokémon Conquest is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Koei Tecmo Games and released in 2012. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Conquest, known in Japan as Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition , is a 2012 tactical role-playing video game developed by Tecmo Koei and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. The game is a crossover between the Pokémon and Nobunaga's Ambition video game series. The game was released in Japan on March 17, 2012 and was released in North America, Australia, and Europe later that year.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Conquest is the 176th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Dream Radar in 2012. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Conquest holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 61 votes.

What it launched against

Pokémon Conquest launched on 17 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Kid Icarus: Uprising and Devil May Cry HD Collection. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Devil May Cry HD Collection.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Conquest yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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