What is the name of Pokémon’s first slow-paced life-simulation game, released in 2026?

Pokémon Pokopia is Pokémon’s first slow-paced life-simulation game, released in 2026.

The game shifts the franchise’s focus from collecting and battling toward relaxed creation. Players control Ditto, build and decorate spaces, restore the surrounding environment, craft items, and attract Pokémon by making habitats that suit them.

Pokopia is still connected to familiar Pokémon ideas: recognizable species inhabit the world, Pokémon moves help with tasks, and creatures can become companions. Its distinctive feature is that progress comes mainly from cultivating a community and improving its surroundings rather than defeating a sequence of opponents.

Other Pokémon titles have included relaxing, social, or management-oriented features, but Pokopia is specifically described as the franchise’s first slow-paced life-simulation game. Pokémon Sleep is a sleep-tracking application, Pokémon Café ReMix is a puzzle game, and Pokémon Quest is an action role-playing game, so none is the same genre.