Pokémon Pokopia is set in a post-apocalyptic version of Kanto.
The game presents Kanto as a world abandoned by humans and unsuitable for Pokémon. Ditto awakens in this damaged landscape and begins helping restore habitats so Pokémon can return and live safely.
This setting reimagines a familiar Pokémon region in a completely different way. Rather than traveling between Gyms and towns, players rebuild the environment, create homes, and investigate clues about why people and Pokémon disappeared. The story gradually reveals that humanity left Earth for outer space after the landscape became hostile to life.
The Kanto connection can be easy to miss because Pokopia does not simply reproduce the region’s classic routes and cities. It uses a transformed version of Kanto as the foundation for its reconstruction story, linking the new spin-off to one of the best-known settings in Pokémon history.