Pokémon Shuffle (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pokémon Shuffle

Each stage in Pokémon Shuffle provides you a limited number of opportunities in which to move your Pokémon around. There is no time limit, so you can take as long as you like to study the board. To clear each…

63 18 February 2015

What Pokémon Shuffle is

Pokémon Shuffle is a puzzle game developed by Genius Sonority and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Shuffle is a 2015 puzzle game developed by Genius Sonority and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The game, which is a spin-off of the Pokémon series and is similar in gameplay to Pokémon Battle Trozei (2014), was released worldwide on the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS on February 18, 2015. Pokémon Shuffle Mobile, a version for Android and iOS devices, was released in August 2015.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Shuffle is the 201st of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Rumble World in 2015. Its critic score of 63 is 11 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 Shuffle holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 63, across 62 votes.

What it launched against

Pokémon Shuffle launched on 18 February 2015, within three weeks of Ori and the Blind Forest, Life Is Strange, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and Cities: Skylines. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Ori and the Blind Forest, Life Is Strange, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Cities: Skylines.

Cheats and codes

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

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