New Leaked Pokémon Game Could've Beaten Palworld To The Punch
Along with other internal, scrapped, or in-development material leaked from the series, it's been revealed that the franchise could also have its own competitor in the form of an unreleased MMO, codenamed. Released in 2024, 's popularity quickly took off, at least in part because it offers an experience that's been missing from the wider franchise, using a similar monster-collecting formula, but in the context of a cooperative open-world base-building game along the lines of .
The unreleased game could have given players a similar experience years before 's release. Having apparently been in development since 2019, the game was seemingly going to offer a broadly similar multiplayer experience, but potentially with more of a focus on riding and battling Pokémon. Currently, 's development seems to have been canceled internally, and it's likely that the game's leaked form won't see release, but there is the possibility that another project, codenamed, is an in-development revival of the concept.
Judging from the leaks (via CentroLeaks on X, formerly Twitter), the gameplay of the leaked MMOcentered mainly around the mechanic of riding Pokémon, likely as a more in-depth version of the mechanic introduced in and later expanded inand. Leaked videos (which have since been taken down from CentroLeak's post) show a protagonist riding a Garchomp, Decidueye, Electivire or Samurott, with the player seemingly having the ability to control the mounted Pokémon to engage in real-time third-person action combat. Additionally, videos showed the player being able to send out other Pokémon to use attacks as well.
Other leaked features include the ability to customize Pokémon with paint markings, and a «gun» resembling a paint sprayer with an unspecified use case.
Unfortunately, there's no video that shows exactly what the game would have looked like in action, but from descriptions of it, would have been a cooperative game about battling Pokémon to capture and ride, potentially making
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