Pokemon Cafe ReMix

Pokemon Cafe ReMix (originally named Pokémon Café Mix) is a 2020 free-to-play puzzle video game developed by Genius Sonority and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS. The game was released on June 23, 2020, in North America, and on June 24, 2020, in Japan, Europe and Australia. The gameplay of Pokémon Café Mix is similar to the Disney Tsum Tsum and Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble mobile games, which are games where a player connects icons together to advance missions. In the game, the player and Eevee are the owners of a café where Pokémon come and order Pokémon-related foods and drinks.

With each order, the player engages in a puzzle to make the items. In these puzzles, the player needs to clear Pokémon icons on screen by linking them in a string. The goal is to collect enough of a particular item as displayed on the customer’s list. Some puzzles may involve clearing extra key objects, like Cafe skills and megaphones. The player is able to level up Pokémon to develop menu items to attract more Pokémon. Staff Pokémon can help with puzzles by making them easier, for example by changing one type of icon into another. Some Pokémon are only available in points events and team events, from the delivery feature, or from legendary visit events.

For the Nintendo Switch release, the game only supports handheld mode. Like similar free-to-play puzzle games, Pokémon Café Mix used a “life” system where a player failing a level would lose a life, and running out of lives resulted in a time delay before they could play again. Extra lives can be purchased with “golden acorns” which are earned through play, received from friends, or purchased with microtransactions. When the game relaunched as Remix, this system was changed and each attempt at a level consumed a life, whether successful or not. Periods of 15, 30, or 45 minutes of unlimited play can be earned in game or purchased.