Pokémon used to be a strictly handheld and console affair, but in its three decades mobile games have become a bigger part of the franchise. In part to celebrate Pokémon GO's 10 year anniversary, we're asking fans this week which iOS and Android titles they have enjoyed playing — regardless of whether the game is still available to download!

Personally, I log into the current active games regularly: GO, Masters EX, Cafe and Sleep. On a slightly less regular basis I'll also jump into UNITE and TCG Pocket. I also have fond memories of the adorable Magikarp Jump that I wish they expanded and kept providing updates for.

I kind of wish they'd bring Pokémon Duel back (you can see the Eevee and Treecko figures in the image above) but maybe in a different form. I didn't find the gameplay overly engaging, but I did like the little 3D figure designs.

Want to refresh your memory about Pokémon's mobile titles? You can check out this page on Bulbapedia! Some never even got English releases.

Curious to hear your thoughts!

I have a love / hate relationship with Pokemon Go. In the last year, I really only play on community days. I am deeply disappointed in the handling of the game.

I am a big big lover of majikarp jump. I played it religiously in 2018 or so. I'd love to see more of those patterns in the mainline games (and that goes for tiny variations for all pokemon). Maybe it'll be possible as hardware continued to get more powerful.

I loooove looove tcg pocket, but I give it another year before they go the way of GO and start making stupid decisions. Good stuff can only last for so long :(

Despite still kind of playing some, I think I'm kind of burnt out on most of them.

I would say the closest to still enjoying would just be Pokemon TCG Pocket and even then, there are still many things that frustrate me with it (most involving the battle-related stuff since it was heavily advertised on the Collection focus and the pity points are so low).

I really loved Magikarp Jump, but lost all my data when my phone suddenly died out of nowhere... I didn't have the heart to try again nor was I able to really restore anything. Despite that, I still have it downloaded.

I technically do still play Pokemon GO, but I somehow am in the one part of my city that is a total deadzone. With my health issues, I can't go out often so I rarely manage to make much progress in anything (and it gets all the worse with my OCD-- I've always hated needing to catch the same Pokemon over and over again to progress) for it or Pikmin Bloom. I pretty much poke in just to mega evolve my Audino and check some things, but with so many Pokemon already paired with the region-locking and event costumes and the low limit unless you pay, it's very frustrating. If it wasn't for all the item and box limits, I'd likely still try to play more, but I just got too tired of needing to constantly sort and release or deposit Pokemon (not to mention after I accidentally released some I was trying to send to Home... Still upset about that). I always liked to try and have a living dex in every Pokemon game, but GO has really killed it for me.

I love Pokemon Friends with all my heart, but I've still been heavily burnt out from it. Short version is the timer sucks and, especially with the finnicky-ness of touch screens, too often did I fall a second short just due to mechanical issues even if I knew the answer. Add on the awful RNG and I've been too frustrated to pick it back up. I'll likely at least pop in for my birthday I suppose.

I was never good at Pokemon Duel, but I was interested enough in the story and the figures that I'm still annoyed it's just gone. I'm especially annoyed as apparently there was data for a planned Mega Audino figure and we'll never know what that would have looked like :( I feel like they absolutely could've just made it a cute gachapon figure collection thing.

Pokemon Quest - I'm not entirely sure why I stopped playing it. I think it may have just been a bit too slow-paced? Maybe I'll try it again.

Pokemon Rumble Rush - I love Pokemon Rumble very much, but it's not a game I want to play on a mobile device.

Pokemon Shuffle - I do not like match-threes. But at least I got a Mega Audino right away.

Pokemon Smile - Cute in theory, but not playable for me. Ignoring that I literally have no set-up in the bathroom for a way to place my phone and not worry about it getting wet, the last thing I want to do is look inside my mouth while I brush my teeth. If it was possible for it to not be AR-esque and just be like "yes, I am brushing my teeth" and I get a Pokemon, I'd probably have kept playing it.

I've mentioned previously that I love everything about Pokemon Cafe ReMix except for the actual gameplay and that's still true. I do not like these types of games. I find them very boring. I wish it was an actual cafe sim instead of what we got.

Pokemon Masters EX I actually still have downloaded, but rarely play. Short version is I was never particularly good at it, but as they continued to add more mechanics and upgrade systems, it just got too convoluted for me to even try. I really want to go through the story because I like the character stuff we get from the game, but once again the actual mechanics just didn't mesh well for me. Maybe I'll try again when Audino is in the game (but there is a 99% chance I'll just get the Audino, mega evolve it after leveling it up as much as I can with the little I have and immediately back out because I still don't know what I am doing).

Pokemon Unite and Pokemon Champions both fall under "there are some neat things here (costumes and story and stuff plus character customization) but I hate PVP". This is also why Pokemon Trading Card Game Live is just a Collection thing for me. I liked the PVE Story the old version had.

Honestly, Pokemon Playhouse was cute even though I am very much not in the age range for it :P But I want more games just hanging out with Pokemon.

I really wanted to try out Pokemon Sleep, but I could not get it to work for me. I never got passed the tutorial. No matter what I did, it would not recognize anything, even with the peripheral device. I ended up just giving up because honestly, I move too much in my sleep and there is a reason I do not bring my phone to bed under any circumstances (it stays in the office).

Anyway, tl;dr version is I only really play Pokemon TCG Pocket fully actively with Pokemon GO in second. I also still check in to Pokemon Friends and Pokemon Masters EX, but the rest are just there to be there, if I even still have them installed.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by Sakuramei

@Zachery I hope Pocket avoids the monetization and anti-player gameplay pitfalls!!

@Sakuramei I'm going to have to read this more thoroughly tomorrow, love that you shared so much about these titles!! Very sorry to hear about the lost Magikarp Jump data though :(