What is the genre of Pokémon Pokopia?

Pokémon Pokopia is a life simulation game.

Its design centers on creating and improving habitats rather than defeating a sequence of Gym Leaders or completing a battle-focused League challenge. Players gather materials, construct buildings, grow food, decorate spaces, and encourage Pokémon to settle in the restored environment.

The game also has sandbox elements because players can shape the landscape and decide how their Pokémon community develops. Those systems place Pokopia alongside games about cultivation, construction, and daily routines, while its Pokémon setting supplies the characters and abilities.

Pokopia is sometimes described informally as a Pokémon version of a farming or building game. Those comparisons explain its style, but the canonical genre classification is life simulation. Its social features and open-ended construction support that label more directly than the role-playing-game category associated with the mainline Pokémon series.