Ranking Every Pokémon Mobile Game Worst To Best
5. Pokemon Shuffle
If you're going to make mobile games based on your popular franchise, it's inevitable that you'll end up making a match-3 game. Pokemon Shuffle, originally released on 3DS, is this game.
As a match-3 game, it's fine. A grid has three or four Pokemon faces in a random jumble, and you have to re-arrange them to make lines of three which then disappear. If you've played one, you've played them all.
The Pokemon theme comes in through a few mechanics, including Pokemon types that means if you match the right Pokemon you get closer to completing the level than you otherwise would, and various themed abilities that trigger if you match four or more Pokemon in one go.
The game is a fine time-killing experience, but the Pokemon theme seems little more than a decoration rather than part of the game. There's nothing that makes Shuffle better than any other match-3 game - if you play this around your elderly relatives, they're going to think you're playing Candy Crush just like they do.