Pokémon Mystery Dungeon may return in 2023

Pokémon Day website contains a possible hint

Marco Wutz | Feb 16, 2023

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon may return in 2023 /

Pokémon Day is around the corner and the franchise wants fans from all over the world to have fun together on the most important of all holidays – to this end, The Pokémon Company started the Pokémon Together marketing campaign.

Fans of the Pokémon video games outside of the main titles may be in for a pleasant surprise in that context. A Reddit user has taken a deep dive into the website’s content and spotted a very intriguing element that’s present in all language versions of the site: a copyright statement reading “©1993–2023 Spike Chunsoft.”

Spike Chunsoft has developed games in the Danganronpa and Dragon Quest series and, much more importantly, is the studio behind Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, the roguelike RPG Pokémon spin-off series.

The last entry into the series was the popular Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX for Nintendo Switch, which launched in 2020 and was a remake of the 2005 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team games – the first-ever remake of a Pokémon game that did not belong to the main line.

The only other copyright statements found in the data are attributed to “Pokémon” and “Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK Inc.” – for this reason, fans are speculating that a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game could be announced on the website during Pokémon Day.

New Pokémon Snap, which came out in 2021, was the last big spin-off release of the franchise, with 2022 seeing the launch of Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, all of which are counted as main titles.

Seeing as how the Pokémon franchise usually does not go long without releasing any new video games, an announcement for 2023 is not that improbable.

Published Feb 16, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg