Top 6 Pokemon Spinoff Games You Need To Play (2023)

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When it comes to Pokemon spinoffs, nothing shines quite like that era between the Gameboy and the 3DS. During the height of popularity throughout the Nintendo DS’s lifespan, plenty of games were given a chance to shine as spinoffs under the Pokemon name. No other time do we find such a diverse cast of games other than this one. Now, in Pokemon, things are relatively streamlined, with spinoffs rarely making it beyond a singular game or mobile title.

But if you just take a step back and look at the era when portable systems were nothing, you’ll see a difference in how Pokemon games asserted themselves. Spinoff series’ could be many games long, and some of the best ones that the community acknowledges were still going strong then. It’s no wonder that some Pokemon fans consider this exact era of Pokemon to be one of the best, if not the top, in the franchise’s history. If you’re looking for something new and fresh to get yourself back into Pokemon, consider some titles that have a few years under the belt.

Even in 2023, these titles have aged gracefully, still holding up to be both fun and aesthetically pleasing titles for their respective systems. So get that Nintendo DS out of storage, because we have plenty of titles to recommend.

Pokemon Ranger is the first installment of the spinoff series under the same umbrella term name. This series is especially unique to the Nintendo DS because of its touchscreen reliance. The premise of the game is that you are a Pokemon Ranger, someone who uses a capture styler to befriend Pokemon in the Fiore region instead of capturing them the usual way with PokeBalls.

The stylus on your DS acts as this capture weapon, and the main mechanic of the game is swirling circles