Whatever happened to Pokémon Sleep?

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Pokémon Day is nearly here! The ancient celebration of Pokémon, established in 2016, is currently considered the most important holiday on every religious calendar.

As department stores start hanging their Pokémon Day decorations, all eyes are turned toward the Pokémon Company to see what will be announced. Will Pokémon Scarlet and Violet receive DLC? Will they become functioning video games? Will we get updates from some of the series’ many sub-franchises, like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon or Pokkén Tournament? Nobody knows! But I know one game we probably won’t see is Pokémon Sleep.

Think back with me for just a moment on the halcyon days of 2019. In late May, the Pokémon Company held a press conference where it announced a handful of promising projects. The most popular among these was probably Pokémon HOME, the Nintendo Switch alternative to the 3DS transfer service Pokémon Bank. There was also Pokémon Masters, a free-to-play mobile game. Both Pokémon HOME and Pokémon Masters are currently available. But the Pokémon Company also announced an app that is not currently available: Pokémon Sleep.

When Pokémon Sleep was announced it was described as a mobile game featuring a “gameplay experience unlike any other,” one in which the player would…uh…go to sleep. We never got another detail on the game, so it’s hard to say what, exactly, it would have been. All we really know is that it was a mobile title that would have taken advantage of the Pokémon GO Plus+, a follow-up to the Pokémon GO Plus interactive bracelet that was pitched solely to make the Pokémon Company’s SEO and marketing team cry.

The Pokémon GO Plus+ was also never released.

So will we ever see Pokémon Sleep? Will we ever get to see the Pokémon GO Plus+? I’m not