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Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra

The wild adventure continues…. Lead an expedition in the snow-swept realm of the Crown Tundra and unravel the mystery of the Legendary Pokémon Calyrex who once ruled over it.

75 23 October 2020 ESRB E

Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Game Freak, released 23 October 2020 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra is

Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Game Freak 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 this frigid area with jagged, snowy mountains, people have settled in a small, tight-knit community. Early in your adventures here, a man named Peony will appoint you as the leader of his exploration team in the Crown Tundra. You’ll be tasked with investigating the reaches of this frozen land—including the depths of a Pokémon Den, something you’ve so far been able to glimpse only during Max Raid Battles! What’s more, it seems many Legendary Pokémon make the Crown Tundra their home.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra is the 263rd of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Nintendo Hearts Fun Trivia Quiz in 2020. Its critic score of 75 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 Sword: The Crown Tundra holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra launched on 23 October 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. 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: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales.

Cheats and codes

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When did Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra come out?
Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra was released on 23 October 2020 for Nintendo Switch.

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