Pokémon Pokopia: Game Freak and Koei Tecmo Reimagine Animal Crossing with Pokémon

Game Freak and Koei Tecmo announced Pokémon Pokopia during today's Direct. What is it? Basically, we'll play as a Ditto, who has taken on human form for the occasion, and go around meeting various Pokémon species. By befriending them, we'll learn their attacks to interact with the environment, such as creating tall grass patches, cutting down trees, digging holes, lighting bonfires, but also building houses and objects, cultivating fields... Interested in an Animal Crossing with Pokémon? This might be for you.

Pokémon Pokopia will be released on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. Here's the announcement trailer.