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Pokémon Pokopia

Wake up as Ditto and rebuild, brick by brick, a paradise where humans and Pokémon can live together once more.

  • 🎮 Nintendo Switch 2
  • 📅 Released March 5, 2026
  • 🌿 Life simulation
  • 👥 1 to 4 players
🌱 Getting started 📖 Story walkthrough All guides ↓
Welcome to the island

What is Pokopia?

A gentle life simulation game where you don't catch Pokémon: you live alongside them.

Ditto wakes up in Pokémon Pokopia

💤 An unexpected awakening

You play as a Ditto in human form. After a long sleep, it meets Professor Tangrowth in a desolate land once inhabited by humans and Pokémon.

Ditto and Professor Tangrowth

🪄 Learning from Pokémon

Ditto copies the abilities of the Pokémon it meets: Rock Smash to break walls, Leafage to grow vegetation, Glide, Surf…

A vegetable garden in Pokémon Pokopia

🏡 Building together

Create habitats, answer Pokémon's Requests, and craft furniture and houses to raise the island's Comfy Level. Up to four players can play together.

Contents

All our Pokopia guides

15 guides written by our editorial team, sorted by theme.

🌱 Getting started 2 🏡 Building your paradise 4 💜 Ditto and its friends 4 🗺️ Exploring the world 3 🎁 Events & gifts 2

Getting started

Your first steps on the island and the complete story, zone by zone.

2 guides
Getting started: the basics and 10 tips Premise, gameplay loop, first hours, key menus and 10 practical tips: everything you need to get started in Pokémon Pokopia on Nintendo Switch 2. ⏱ 14 min Read → Story walkthrough, zone by zone Pokémon Pokopia walkthrough: Important Requests from Withered Wastelands to Sparkling Skylands, the Team Initiation Challenge, “A Nicer Environment” and post-story content. ⏱ 19 min Read →

Building your paradise

Habitats, crafting, cooking and comfort: everything for a town that's a pleasure to live in.

4 guides
Habitat Dex: all 209 habitats All 209 habitats in the base game of Pokémon Pokopia: how they work, the items to gather and… ⏱ 16 min Read → Crafting, materials and kits Workbench, recipes, key materials (ingots, Pokémetal, bricks, concrete), building kits and painting: the crafting guide for Pokémon Pokopia. ⏱ 7 min Read → Cooking and vegetable garden Vegetable garden, utensils, every recipe (salads, soups, breads, burgers, smoothies) and DJ Rotom's CDs: the Pokémon Pokopia cooking… ⏱ 7 min Read → Environment and Comfy Level How to raise the Environment Level and the Comfy Level of Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia, and all of… ⏱ 7 min Read →

Ditto and its friends

Ditto's moves, Pokémon specialties, friendship and legendary Pokémon.

4 guides
All of Ditto's moves All of Ditto's moves in Pokémon Pokopia: who teaches them, where, how to unlock them, transformations, upgrades and… ⏱ 8 min Read → Pokémon specialties Water, Burn, Generate, Build… The complete list of Pokémon Pokopia specialties, their effects and the Pokémon that have… ⏱ 7 min Read → Friendship, mini-games and memories How to build friendship with your Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia: gifts, jump rope, camouflage, quizzes and the list… ⏱ 7 min Read → Legendary and Mythical Pokémon Articuno, Suicune, Mewtwo, Ho-Oh, Lugia, Mew, Manaphy… How to meet every Legendary and Mythical Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia,… ⏱ 7 min Read →

Exploring the world

Dream Islands, Cloud Island, Bubbly Basin, treasures and Human Records.

3 guides
Dream Islands and Cloud Island How to unlock Drifloon, which plushie leads to which Dream Island, where to find legendary Pokémon, and everything… ⏱ 6 min Read → Lost items, mural and treasures Buried items, Professor Tangrowth's appraisals, all the Human Records and their rewards, the Mew mural and Bubbly Basin's… ⏱ 11 min Read → Bubbly Basin (Expansion Pass) Bubbly Basin, part 1 of the Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass: requirements, learning Dive from Manaphy, a 50-Pokémon Pokédex… ⏱ 8 min Read →

Events & gifts

Seasonal events and Mystery Gift codes you won't want to miss.

2 guides
Pumpkaboo's Halloween event Preparation guide for Pokémon Pokopia's Halloween event, October 17 to November 1: requirements, pumpkin lollipops, Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist. ⏱ 7 min Read → Mystery Gift codes Chansey shrub code (until October 7), Ditto rug, Expansion Pass bonuses: every Mystery Gift in Pokémon Pokopia and… ⏱ 5 min Read →
The adventure trail

The zones to bring back to life

The story takes you from zone to zone. Click a step to open the walkthrough at the right spot.

  1. 1 Withered Wastelands Ditto's awakening, the first moves and the Team Initiation Challenge.
  2. 2 Bleak Beach Light, electricity, Surf… and Mosslax's awakening.
  3. 3 Rocky Ridges Cooking, smelting and a big party to organize.
  4. 4 Sparkling Skylands Rebuilding the great Silph Co. building.
  5. 5 Palette Town A peaceful zone with no important Requests, free to arrange as you like.
✨ After the story ☁️ Dream Islands & Cloud Island 🌟 Legendary Pokémon 🫧 Bubbly Basin
Notice board

Right now on the island

Right now

Pumpkaboo's sweet treats

Halloween event · October 17, 2026 – November 1, 2026

Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist land on the island: themed furniture and items to collect before November 1.

The guide → The announcement →
Right now

Mystery Gift codes

Distributions

Current codes, including the seaside furniture (code D1VE1NTHESEA) to claim before February 29, 2028.

The guide →
Official artwork of the Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass
Additional content

The Expansion Pass

Three parts included in a single purchase (not sold separately), to be discovered through 2027.

  1. 1
    Fonds-Bulleux Available

    An underwater zone to explore with Dive, featuring 36 new habitats. Our guide →

  2. 2
    Accessories launch Late 2026

    Sunglasses, bow ties, a Sylveon ribbon… and new Pokémon such as Doduo, Skitty and Braixen. The announcement →

  3. 3
    New town 2027

    A brand-new town to build, with details to be revealed later.

The faces of the island

Pokémon unlike any others

Pokopia is full of unique Pokémon you won't meet anywhere else.

Professor Tangrowth

Professor Tangrowth

The first Pokémon Ditto meets upon waking up. It wears human tools as accessories.

Peakychu

Peakychu

A pale Pikachu with droopy ears and fur of a mysterious color.

Mosslax

Mosslax

Covered in moss, with a flower ready to bloom on its head: it has been asleep for a very long time.

Smearguru

Smearguru

A brightly colored Smeargle that paints with its tail like a true artist.

Chef Dente

Chef Dente

The island's cook, responsible for all the recipes made with vegetables from the garden.

DJ Rotom

DJ Rotom

A DJ who gets the party going! Perfect for livening up your town's festivities.

Popplio

Popplio

Met in the depths of Bubbly Basin, the underwater zone of the Expansion Pass.

Photo album

Pokopia in pictures

The vegetable garden, at the heart of island life The vegetable garden, at the heart of island life The Pokémon Center and its residents The Pokémon Center and its residents A stroll with Bulbasaur and friends A stroll with Bulbasaur and friends Charizard and Dragonite in top form Charizard and Dragonite in top form A cozy interior to decorate A cozy interior to decorate Crossing the waves with Surf Crossing the waves with Surf The workbench for crafting furniture and items The workbench for crafting furniture and items A town coming to life, brick by brick A town coming to life, brick by brick

© Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK — official visuals

The island gazette

Latest Pokopia news

October 3, 2026 Pokémon Pokopia: Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist Arrive for the First Halloween Event September 9, 2026 Pokémon Pokopia: Expansion Pass Part 2 Revealed at the Nintendo Direct (Doduo, Skitty, Braixen…) June 30, 2026 “Wish Upon a Jirachi”: A Celestial Event Lands in Pokémon Pokopia! May 16, 2026 IKEA and Pokémon Pokopia: An Unprecedented Collaboration

The mini-site grows along with your island

New guides, events and Expansion Pass content: our editorial team regularly expands the mini-site. Got a question about the game? Ask it in the comments of our guides!

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