There’s currently 45 playable Pokemon on offer in Pokemon Unite. Points are scored by defeating wild Pokemon as well as Pokemon on the opposing team.

Two teams of five players battle for dominance, with each player starting with a low level Pokemon that grows in strength and ability over the course of a ten minute game. Though – a bit like Pokemon Quest – Pokemon Unite has been criticised for its microtransactions (some of which are individual characters that are ludicrously expensive), it’s actually an incredibly fun and highly competitive Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. Like Pokemon Quest and Pokemon Cafe ReMix, Pokemon Unite launched on Switch just before it came to Android and iOS. Typical, isn’t it? You wait ages for a free to play Pokemon game and then three come along at once! Despite, or perhaps because of the simplicity of Pokemon Quest’s gameplay loop, it’s pretty fun and has a nice, unusually square, Minecraft-esque look to its world and the characters. It’s a shame that the in-game economy is tuned this way.

Yet soon enough, timers and costs increase to the point where it’s clear that Pokemon Quest wants you to spend real money on its microtransactions, which can become pretty frustrating. It’s fun at first, with quests and their rewards being simple to complete and doled out pretty quickly. Gathering ingredients happens by taking teams of Pokemon on expeditions, where they’ll fight waves of wild Pokemon in brief battle stages.

In Pokemon Quest, players attract Pokemon to their camp site by cooking recipes for food that each creature likes. Though it came to Switch shortly before Android and iOS, Pokemon Quest is a free to play game that feels like a mobile title – and isn’t quite the RPG that its title may have you believe it is.

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