Pokémon Ultra Sun

"Take on the role of a Pokémon Trainer and uncover new tales, and unravel the mystery behind the two forms reminiscent of the Legendary Pokémon. With new story additions and features this earns Pokémon Ultra…

84 17 November 2017

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy Kids

Pokémon Ultra Sun is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 17 November 2017 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 34 hrs to finish.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Pokémon Ultra Sun is

Pokémon Ultra Sun is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon are 2017 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. Part of the seventh generation of the Pokémon video game series, the games are enhanced versions of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, which released the previous year. Announced in June 2017, they were released worldwide on 17 November 2017. They were the final mainline Pokémon games for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, with the series migrating over to the Nintendo Switch the next year.

Description from Wikipedia · 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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Pokémon series

Pokémon Ultra Sun is the 229th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Ultra Moon in 2017. Its critic score of 84 is 10 points above 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 Ultra Sun holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 119 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 34 hrs.

What it launched against

Pokémon Ultra Sun launched on 17 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and Star Wars Battlefront II. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, Star Wars Battlefront II.

Cheats and codes

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