What genre did Nintendo list for Pokémon Pokopia?

Nintendo listed Pokémon Pokopia as a life simulation game.

That genre describes Pokopia’s focus on everyday creation and community-building rather than a traditional campaign of battles. Players gather materials, craft furniture, grow vegetables, build homes, shape terrain, and encourage Pokémon to settle in a welcoming environment.

Pokopia remains recognizably Pokémon through its creatures, learnable moves, and familiar abilities, but its main loop is deliberately slower and more creative. The game is therefore often discussed alongside life-simulation and sandbox titles, even though it belongs to the wider Pokémon franchise.

Calling it a role-playing game or an action game can be misleading. Those labels may describe individual elements, but the official genre classification is life simulation. Its peaceful pace and emphasis on relationships distinguish it from the battle-oriented main series.