Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
You can meet and recruit Pokémon in a dungeon-crawling adventure within their world! Build a rescue team to take on mysterious, changing dungeons and strategically plan your moves as you venture forth to make…
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is an adventure developed by Spike Chunsoft, released 6 March 2020 on Nintendo Switch.
What Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is an adventure game developed by Spike Chunsoft and released in 2020. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a world inhabited entirely by talking Pokémon, some living in bustling towns and others dwelling in the wild, one ordinary day takes a strange turn. The player awakens as a Pokémon with a jarring case of amnesia, remembering only that they were once a human. This revelation stuns everyone they meet, for while the Pokémon know of a distant human world, it is meant to remain forever apart from their own. Befriending a kindhearted partner Pokémon, the pair form a rescue team dedicated to helping others in trouble, braving ever-shifting mystery dungeons to save Pokémon lost, trapped, or in danger. Their calling has never been more urgent, as violent natural disasters strike the land with…
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: Rescue Team DX is the 254th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Shield + Expansion Pass in 2020. Its critic score of 65 is 9 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX launched on 6 March 2020, within three weeks of Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Black Mesa. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Doom Eternal, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Black Mesa.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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