Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team

You, a regular human, find yourself trapped in the body of a Pokémon in a world inhabited by Pokémon. Without any other choice, you go on rescue missions through randomly generated dungeons with your…

17 November 2005

What Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team is

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team is an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You, a regular human, find yourself trapped in the body of a Pokémon in a world inhabited by Pokémon. Without any other choice, you go on rescue missions through randomly generated dungeons with your newly-acquired partner and friend to save the world and get back to your human life.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team is the 127th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Advanced: Cyber Poké Ball 2 in 2005.

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What it launched against

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team launched on 17 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) and Star Wars: Battlefront II.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005), Star Wars: Battlefront II.

Official trailer