Games like Pokémon

3.6average player rating•5 games

The Pokémon itch is a specific one: a team you built, levelled and got attached to. These are the PC games that scratch it — some faithful, some gleefully strange.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic77

Avg. player rating3.6/5

Avg. playtime8h

Main genreIndie

Released2020–2024

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Indie5 of 5
RPG5 of 5
Adventure4 of 5
Strategy2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Coromon
AdventureRPGStrategy
Unashamedly classic: routes, gyms, a rival. It's the Game Boy formula with modern quality-of-life and a real difficulty slider.
3.7/5Player ratingMC74View game
2
Cassette Beasts
RPGIndie
Record monsters onto tapes and transform into them yourself. Its type-fusion system is genuinely deeper than the thing it's riffing on.
3.6/5Player ratingView game
3
Monster Sanctuary
AdventureRPGStrategy
Monster-taming folded into a metroidvania — your team both fights for you and unlocks the map.
3.6/5Player ratingMC79View game
4
Palworld
ActionAdventureRPG
Catch creatures, then put them to work in your base. The collecting instinct, crossed with survival crafting and rather more firearms.
3.6/5Player ratingView game
5
Temtem
AdventureRPGMassively Multiplayer
The most literal answer: a full creature-collecting adventure built around 2v2 battles, with other trainers actually in the world with you.
3.5/5Player ratingMC77View game