Pokémon Friends, a New Pokémon Brain Teaser Game, Is Out Now on Mobile and Nintendo Switch

During today's Pokémon Presents, The Pokémon Company announced a marque caller Pokémon spin-off game. It's called Pokémon Friends, and it's a regular encephalon teaser crippled featuring tons of Pokémon-themed puzzles.

In the trailer, we got a look astatine a fig of examples of the sorts of puzzles we'll brushwood successful Pokémon Friends. The archetypal 1 showed a plan of tiles with airy bulbs connected them, asking players to gully a enactment from 1 tile that touched each azygous different tile lone once. Another had a subordinate sliding lined tiles astir to link a way truthful that h2o could travel from 1 broadside to the other. Still others progressive connecting bid tracks, predicting which balloons wouldn't beryllium popped by a flying arrow, sliding astir an crystal maze, and more.

All the games are themed astir Pokémon specified arsenic Pikachu, Piplup, Mudkip, Sableye, and more. Completing puzzles gets the subordinate in-game Pokemon plush items that they tin usage to decorate a virtual room.

Pokémon Friends is retired close present connected iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. It costs $9.99 connected Nintendo Switch, and is "free to start" connected mobile but yet volition artifact the subordinate from progressing without paying. The crippled purports to diagnostic implicit 1,200 antithetic puzzles.

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