When did Yo-kai Watch World come out?

Yo-kai Watch World was released on 27 June 2018 for Android and iOS.

Yo-kai Watch World (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Yo-kai Watch World

Augmented reality, location-based adventure game, where the player has to roam the real world to try to find and befriend Yo-kai. It was only playable if the player was physically in Japan. In 2022, as the…

27 June 2018

What Yo-kai Watch World is

Yo-kai Watch World is an adventure game developed by GungHo Online Entertainment and released in 2018. It was published by LEVEL-5. It is available on Android and iOS. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Augmented reality, location-based adventure game, where the player has to roam the real world to try to find and befriend Yo-kai. It was only playable if the player was physically in Japan. In 2022, as the main game was discontinued, the app was transformed into "Yo-kai Watch World Memories", an app to see all the progress made in the main game, also serving as a medallium and photo app.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Yo-kai Watch series

Yo-kai Watch World is the 20th of 28 entries we hold in the Yo-kai Watch series. The next entry was Yo-kai Watch 3 in 2018.

See all 28 Yo-kai Watch games in release order →

What it launched against

Yo-kai Watch World launched on 27 June 2018, within three weeks of Among Us, Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and Wreckfest.

Released around the same time: Among Us, Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Wreckfest.

Official trailer