Pokémon Violet
Catch, battle, and train Pokémon in the Paldea Region, a vast land filled with lakes, towering peaks, wastelands, small towns, and sprawling cities. Explore a wide-open world at your own pace and traverse…
Pokémon Violet is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 18 November 2022 on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. The main story takes about 36 hrs to finish.
What Pokémon Violet is
Pokémon Violet is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2022. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet are 2022 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch. They are the first installments in the ninth generation of the Pokémon video game series. They were announced in February 2022 and released on 18 November 2022. The games later received a downloadable content (DLC) expansion pass storyline, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. The first part, The Teal Mask, was released on 13 September 2023, and the second part, The Indigo Disk, was released on 14 December 2023. A post-game expansion, Mochi Mayhem, considered the epilogue to the DLC and the games themselves, was released on 11…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Pokémon Violet is the 275th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. It arrived 8 months after Pokémon Corogarena. The next entry was Pokémon Scarlet in 2022. Its critic score of 80 is 6 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Pokémon Violet holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 129 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 36 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 350 hrs, roughly 9.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Pokémon Violet launched on 18 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, Bayonetta 3, Pentiment and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, Bayonetta 3, Pentiment, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Violet yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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