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.
