With well over 100 titles in the Pokemon franchise, fans have more than enough to keep their hands full, but die-hard Pokemon fanatics may be searching for something outside the typical experience. Luckily, the Pokemon series has an underground contingent of players dedicated to putting out their own spin on the Pokemon games. These fan games range from unfinished efforts that take a few hours to finish at most to sprawling adventures that, in the opinion of their fans, rival any of the mainline Pokemon games.
Despite Nintendo's efforts to ban fan-made Pokemon games, the community is still alive and well. While many titles have been shelved following legal action, even banned Pokemon fan games are still available for those willing to look hard enough.
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While Pokemon Uranium is officially dead, it's still very much available in the fan-made communities. Once the poster boy for all fan-made Pokemon efforts, Uranium offered up a strange blend of Pokemon meets Fallout, with many of their homebrewed Pokemon being based around nuclear radiation and mutations. At the time it was shut down by Nintendo,Uranium boasted over 160 Pokemon that were either wholly new or riffs on tried-and-true Pokemon characters.
Before it was hit with legal action, Pokemon Uranium was included in the Game Awards back in 2016—a testament to its relative quality and overwhelming popularity. Today,Pokemon Uranium stands out as an unusual adventure through the Pokemon universe that is still worth checking out despite its lack of updates.
Arguably the most complete-feeling of all the fan-made Pokemon games, Xenoverse is positively jam-packed with unique content. The most common complaint about Xenoverse is
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