Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon is a roguelike video game in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. Like its predecessors, players control a human who has awoken as a Pokémon in a world filled entirely by the…

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What Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon is

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon is an adventure game developed by Spike Chunsoft and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon is a roguelike video game in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. Like its predecessors, players control a human who has awoken as a Pokémon in a world filled entirely by Pokémon and must travel through dungeons, completing missions and battling enemies. The game was released in Japan on September 17, 2015; in North America on November 20, 2015; in Europe on February 19, 2016; and in Australia on February 20, 2016.

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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon is the 207th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Mega Get! in 2015. Its critic score of 73 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 50 votes.

What it launched against

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon launched on 17 September 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Mad Max and Soma. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Undertale, Mad Max, Soma.

Cheats and codes

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