{"id":419770,"date":"2025-09-13T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419770\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:30:15","slug":"ever-wanted-to-play-a-pokemon-animal-crossing-meets-minecraft-pokemon-pokopia-might-be-just-that-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/419770\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wanted to play a Pok\u00e9mon Animal Crossing meets Minecraft? Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia might be just that game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo has announced a rather unexpected Pok\u00e9mon spin-off, Pokopia. Revealed during the 12th September Nintendo Direct<\/a>, the new game is coming to Switch 2<\/a> in 2026 and is being developed by Koei Tecmo Games.<\/p>\n

In the game players are tasked with creating their own Pok\u00e9mon paradise, with Ditto as the protagonist – albeit Ditto taking on a human-like appearance.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

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About Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/p>\n

As Ditto, players can explore and learn moves from the Pok\u00e9mon they befriend\u2014such as Bulbasaur’s Leafage to grow greenery, or Squirtle\u2019s Water Gun to revive dried-up plants\u2014expanding their capabilities and helping them create an inviting environment to attract a variety of Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n

Players can collect materials, build furniture, grow vegetables, and create homes for Pok\u00e9mon, allowing them to experience a cozy, slow life with Pok\u00e9mon\u2014one that they build themselves from the ground up. Over time, players can develop a town of their own and invite other players or Pok\u00e9mon to visit. Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia also features a day-night cycle linked to real-world time, changing weather, and in-game locations with their own unique characteristics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Koei Tecmo has dabbled in this sort of title before, providing much of the work for Square Enix<\/a>‘s Dragon Quest Builders 2<\/a>, another Minecraft-esque spin-off of a major Japanese RPG series. It could be that some of the development talent is shared between these titles – though as with most Pokemon games, Game Freak is also clearly deeply involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has announced a rather unexpected Pok\u00e9mon spin-off, Pokopia. Revealed during the 12th September Nintendo Direct, the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-419770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115194169068565560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}