What is the name of the engine used by Pokémon Pokopia?

Pokémon Pokopia uses the Katana Engine. The engine is listed among the game’s technical credits alongside its developers, designers, programmers, writers, and artists.

Pokopia’s engine supports a game built around a persistent, changeable environment. Players cultivate land, construct buildings, place objects, and create habitats for Pokémon, so the technology must support more than a linear sequence of battles or levels.

The title is easy to confuse with widely recognized commercial engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Those are common choices across the video-game industry, but they are not the engine identified for Pokémon Pokopia in the game’s listed credits.

Knowing the engine is a more technical way to distinguish Pokopia from other Pokémon titles. The game’s unusual social-simulation and sandbox format is paired with the specifically named Katana Engine rather than one of the generic alternatives.