Pokémon Leaker Claims New Main Series Game Other Than Pokémon Legends ZA Coming Out in 2025

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A new rumor suggests that a «surprise» main series game will be released in 2025. Next year, Game Freak and The Pokémon Company will release, a new game set in the Kalos region. Other than the initial trailer released in February 2024, The Pokémon Companyhas not announced any information about the game, although that hasn't stopped plenty of alleged leaks and rumors from spreading. While we know that one game is confirmed for 2025, a new rumor suggests that another game will be coming out soon.

Riddler Khu, a Pokémon leaker who has correctly referenced past unreleased Pokémon games and information, made a post on X on December 31st suggesting that another Pokémon project will be released in 2025. The X post stated that the new Pokémon game was not included in the infamous «Teraleak» that occurred earlier this year and will be released for the Nintendo Switch 2. The tweet also included a picture of a dolphin with black and white coloration, which is likely a reference to remakes. Centro Leaks also summarized Riddler Khu's posts and posted them to X as well.

There is some circumstantial evidence that another game could be released in 2025. Pokémon has slowly teased a return to the Unova region, both with the reintroduction of characters from the Unova region and also by excluding several Gen 5 Pokémon from recent games. There are also several rumors suggesting that more Unova references will pop up in other games and media in the coming months. Finally,, the previous game, was released just two months after the release of the remakes, which at least shows that a dual release is possible.

However, it seems very odd that a new game would somehow have escaped the Teraleak, especially as datafiles related to both and a supposed Gen 10 Pokémon game were included.At the very least, that would suggest that Game Freak isn't involved in the new game at all. That would further strengthen the idea of a new remake of some kind, as third-party developer ILCA was heavily involved