Pokémon Pokopia is at present the highest-rated Pokémon sport in Metacritic’s historical past.
The life sim – which many are describing as a cross between Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Minecraft, Viva Pinata and Dragon Quest Builders – is ready for launch on March 5 as a Change 2 unique.
Important reception to the sport has been virtually solely optimistic, and consequently it at present stands on a rating of 88 on Metacritic.
This not solely places it degree with Resident Evil Requiem and Mewgenics because the joint-highest rated sport of 2026 thus far, it additionally makes it the very best rated Pokémon sport of all time on the evaluation aggregator web site.
The one different Pokémon sport with a Metacritic rating of 88 is Pokémon Y, however since its companion sport Pokémon X has a rating of 87 their joint common makes them barely decrease than Pokopia.
In response to Metacritic, the listing of highest-scoring Pokémon video games is as follows:
- Pokémon Pokopia – 88
- Pokémon X & Y – 87.5 (87 for X, 88 for Y)
- Pokémon Black & White – 87
- Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver – 87
- Pokémon Solar & Moon – 87
- Pokémon Diamond & Pearl – 85
- Pokémon Extremely Solar & Extremely Moon – 84
- Pokémon Platinum – 83
- Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sappire – 82.5 (83 for OS, 82 for AS)
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus – 83
In Pokopia, gamers play as a Ditto who takes on the looks of a human. As this humanoid Ditto, the participant will befriend different Pokémon and use their talents to rebuild an island.
VGC’s Pokémon Pokopia evaluation calls it “Pokémon’s finest spin-off”, noting that the necessity to grind late within the sport “can’t boring the shine” of the general expertise.
“Pokémon Pokopia is a superb life simulation sport that takes the very best bits from the champions of the style and evolves into one thing that Pokémon followers and comfy sport followers will love,” we wrote. “Late-game grinding doesn’t boring an journey that’s as filled with discovery at 100 hours because it was at one.”
