Pokémon Quest

"Welcome to Tumblecube Island! With cube-shaped Pokémon to befriend and hidden treasures to uncover, Pokémon Quest is a free-to-start game that introduces a brand-new land to explore."

60 29 May 2018

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Strategy Action

Pokémon Quest is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 29 May 2018 on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Pokémon Quest is

Pokémon Quest is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2018. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set off for adventure in the Pokémon Quest game. Venture out with your Pokémon buddies on expeditions across Tumblecube Island in search of loot in this free-to-start action-adventure. Modify your Pokémon buddies with discovered Power Stones to make your ultimate expedition team.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Quest is the 235th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! + Poké Ball Plus Pack in 2018. Its critic score of 60 is 14 points below 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 Quest holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 63, across 56 votes.

What it launched against

Pokémon Quest launched on 29 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

Cheats and codes

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