Pokémon games for pc: here are our favourite alternatives

     

If you don"t have sầu a Nintenvì chưng console, don’t worry - here are some excellent creature battlers for PC


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Pokétháng Trading Card Game Online

We’re not saying it’s a classic, but it’s an official Pokétháng game that’s officially available on PC. Battle against your rival Trainers in the free-to-play Pokétháng Trading Card Game Online. While there are a wide range of popular online thẻ games out there, the charming Pokétháng artwork và the characters we all know & love make this one stand out from the pack.

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If that doesn’t quite satisfy your creature-collecting urges, we’re sadly not expecting Pokémon on Steam any time soon, but there are many alternatives to Pokétháng available on PC and all of them are built on the core components of collection and cute(ish) beasts.

Here are the best games lượt thích Pokétháng for PC:


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TEMTEM

This Poke-lượt thích may be unashamedly inspired by trò chơi Freak’s cherished creature catcher, but it brings plenty of new ideas. The biggest difference you’ll find here is a sense of challenge. Temtem swiftly brings it khổng lồ your notice when your tamer rival thumps you in your opening battle. After that, you’ll find going from town khổng lồ town difficult as potions are expensive sầu, so resource management comes into lớn play.

Temtem’s battle system is equally demanding of your attention. Each one of your tems has a stamina bar, strengths và weaknesses, & fights are two-on-two. If you want to succeed in winning fights và making it khổng lồ the next town, you’ll need khổng lồ have a full team of well trained tems. If you want something that’scthảm bại lớn the Pokétháng series, you can’t get much closer than this.

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SLIME RANCHER

In a galaxy far, far away is a world where sentient slimes roam không tính tiền. InSlime Rancher, you inherit a slime ranch, so it’s now your responsibility lớn get it up and running by collecting every type of slime. They come in all manner of colours and varieties, each bringing with it varying properties – và associated challenges.You can even go vegan, if you want.

In Pokémon, you have to complete your Pokédex as you gradually imprison an increasingly alarming number of sentient creatures & force them lớn fight each other in gladiatorial bouts. In Slime Rancher, however, there’s the quite charmingly named Slimepedia khổng lồ keep trachồng of your livestoông xã. There are 90 colourful slimes khổng lồ collect, including pink slimes, rock slimes, puddle slimes, fire slimes… you get the picture.

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SLAY THE SPIRE

Decisions made outside of Pokétháng battles are as important as the choices made in them.Slay the Spiregets this. Building a dechồng with excellent synergy between cards requires the same thought process as constructing a winning Pokémon tiệc ngọt. Creating powerful combinations và seeing a battle go as you planned is at the core of all card combat games, of course, but Slay the Spire is one of the best. It’s moreish, brilliant design hearkens bachồng lớn Pokémon’s heady trading thẻ days.

It offers up a less colourful adventure than Pokétháng, and the journey up that titular spire is certainly more arduous. But even as you battle foes và overcome the game’s ever-changing obstacles, the sense of becoming stronger both through sheer weight of numbers và a deepening understanding of the power available khổng lồ you can’t help but evoke the feelings that Nintendo’s classic conjures.

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World of Final Fantasy

This spin-off sees you explore the world of Grymoire, collecting Mirages – dễ thương versions of classic Final Fantasy creatures. That mechanic reminds us of… something. Oh yeah: Pokétháng. To wield your captured Mirages in battle, you have to lớn organise them inkhổng lồ strategic stacks – and here’s where further similarities with Nintendo’s series reveal themselves.

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The stacking system in World of Final Fantasy is an utterly charming twist on Pokémon’s battle formula, you see. And rediscovering all of your favourite Final Fantasy creatures in chibi size is simply adorable and more than reason enough to lớn give sầu this one a go.

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Digitháng Masters Online

Bachồng in the ‘90s, Pokémon overtook Digitháng khổng lồ become the ultra-successful Japanese truyền thông franchise it is today. But today, Digimon is the only one of the two that’s made the jump to PC.

Digitháng Masters Online is an MMO where you train and evolve the eponymous creatures by battling other players. Digimon evolve sầu into lớn stronger forms with special attacks, similar lớn Pokémon, but Digimon Masters battles are real-time, not turn based. As such, you’ll need to keep your wits about you!

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Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom

Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom’s enchanting characters & rich worldbuilding get you in the mood for an epic adventure. It’s like stepping out of your house for the first time in Pokémon’s Pallet town – a whole world waiting khổng lồ be explored. The game uses a similar battle system lớn Tales of Vesperia, so you should feel right at trang chính with its style of combat if you’re familiar with it. Ni No Kuni II also has a unique city-building tool, where you can help manage the work forces for Evan’s kingdom – a nice touch.

And then there are Ni No Kuni II’s Higgledies. They help your party during battles, can heal characters, attaông chồng enemies, and even shield the group with protective spells. They’re cute little companions who help you lớn win against impossible odds, và would fit perfectly into Pokémon’s next generation.

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Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered

If the sequel is too much of a curve sầu ball for you, then the original Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witchis more lượt thích Pokémon, and also surprisingly difficult. It also benefits from a glorious collaboration between RPG masters Level-5 và the legendary Studio Ghibli.

Battlesfeature a curious blover ofreal-time và turn-based combat mechanics, so does take some getting used lớn if you’re coming from the handheld Pokémon games. But the important part is that youfightalongside monsters that you capture, befrikết thúc, & train just like in Pokétháng.

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Ooblets

Ooblets is an indie adventure directly inspired by Pokétháng. The Double Fine-produced game will feature living plants, character customisation, house-building, và a smattering of other fun & quirky activities. You plant seeds that blossom into lớn baby ooblets, and after levelling them up, you can have sầu adorable dance battles with fellow ooblet trainers. These are built on turn-based battles, type-effectiveness charts, và various other mechanics that are about as Pokémon as they come.

Farming và dance training is just the beginning, too. You can explore strange lands, talk to lớn friendly neighbours, và indulge in the relaxing routines of town life. It’s also so ridiculously đáng yêu you may not be able khổng lồ stand it. Ooblets is out now in Early Access on the Epic trò chơi Store.