New Pokémon Snap is not the only Pokémon game announced today! Indeed, announced today is Pokémon Café Mix which is a "touch-based puzzle" game where you complete puzzles with Pokémon in order to prepare menu items, build friendships, upgrade your own café. Puzzles consist of linking together Pokémon icons before you run out of turns.

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More details about the game can be found below as excerpted from the eShop:

Meet and grow your café staff of charming Pokémon eager to help

Recruit Pokémon to help out at the café (in their adorable uniforms) by building friendship and expand your café and menu offerings by completing puzzles. Each Pokémon staff member has a Café Skill that will come in handy during puzzles!

Golden Acorns can help you complete puzzles and recruit more Pokémon!

Earn or purchase Golden Acorns, the in-game currency, and redeem them to regain hearts, continue puzzles, and get helpful items.

As you complete puzzles to build a world-class café, you’ll face obstacles such as sugar cubes, dollops of whipped cream, and tomatoes! Use your puzzle skills to clear them and employ the help of Pokémon’s Café Skills for some extra oomph! In addition to Café Skills, each Pokémon staff member has a specialty. Match a Pokémon’s specialty with the dish or drink you are making for bonuses in puzzles.

Once a day you can invite two randomly-selected Pokémon to your café. Looking for a specific Pokémon to join your staff? With Golden Acorns you can refresh this selection.

In addition to recruiting more Pokémon staff members and growing your collection of menu items, the café itself will expand as you play! Getting new tools or having areas added to your café may even draw in more customers. All the action in Pokémon Café Mix unfolds in a playful art style that brings out the cuteness of your Pokémon pals and patrons. It’s time to become a café owner, solve puzzles, and bring joy to Pokémon patrons!

Nintendo says that Pokémon Café Mix is a free-to-start game on the Switch with in-app purchases and is slated to release next week on June 23rd.

Pokémon Café Mix eShop page

 

[Youkai]

Darn, reading Pokemon Puzzle I was hoping for a new Puzzle League ...

I think the last "tetris attack" like game was for the 3ds a few years ago then Pokemon Puzzle on the N64 and before Tetris Attack for the SNES ?

I loved those games especially the first one for SNES with its cute Characters and all but NO noones making games like that anymore

 

[James_]

Got the game pre-loaded on my Switch, time to wait a week.

Darn, reading Pokemon Puzzle I was hoping for a new Puzzle League ...

I mean, to be fair, if it was a new Puzzle League game, wouldn't it have 'Puzzle League' in the title?

 

[jt_1258]

The pokemon has at least brought something "good" in recent years.
It has shown just what it's like when a beloved series gets milked to the last drop of cash it has left without outright killing it.

 

[x65943]

Darn, reading Pokemon Puzzle I was hoping for a new Puzzle League ...

I think the last "tetris attack" like game was for the 3ds a few years ago then Pokemon Puzzle on the N64 and before Tetris Attack for the SNES ?

I loved those games especially the first one for SNES with its cute Characters and all but NO noones making games like that anymore

I still play the original from time to time on my switch with retroarch

 

[Stealphie]

Coffee amirite

 

[Plasmaster09]

Darn, reading Pokemon Puzzle I was hoping for a new Puzzle League ...

I think the last "tetris attack" like game was for the 3ds a few years ago then Pokemon Puzzle on the N64 and before Tetris Attack for the SNES ?

I loved those games especially the first one for SNES with its cute Characters and all but NO noones making games like that anymore

ahem
You mean Panel de Pon.

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seems neat and cute

 

[windmill]

Rip hopes for Pokemon Shuffle Switch

 

[Youkai]

ahem
You mean Panel de Pon.

Well as it was never called that outside of JP I actually meant "Tetris Attack" or "Puzzle League"

I mean, to be fair, if it was a new Puzzle League game, wouldn't it have 'Puzzle League' in the title?

Nah they changed the name more then just once so that wouldn't have been a big surprise

 

[Plasmaster09]

Well as it was never called that outside of JP I actually meant "Tetris Attack" or "Puzzle League"



Nah they changed the name more then just once so that wouldn't have been a big surprise

I mean yeah kinda but it was never called anything in its legitimate original form outside of Japan
It was always weirdly reskinned
Kinda like Puyo Puyo, except Puyo Puyo escaped that fate a few years ago

 

[raxadian]

Pokemon Puzzle League 2?

Heavy on the Nintendo 64 Pokemon nostalgia it seems.

Will we get a Pokemon Stadium for Switch next? Or maybe a new Hey You, Pikachu!

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

Ngl, this should've been a Mobile Game.
What do you guys think?

 

[DarkCoffe64]

Should've been Pokèmon Maid Cafe, amirite?

 

[omgcat]

Ngl, this should've been a Mobile Game.
What do you guys think?

It is a port of a mobile game. it says it will be available on switch and mobile at the end.

 

[RichardTheKing]

The last "free-to-play" game I actually had some measure of fun with was Pokemon Picross. The transactions could have been a lot cheaper, and the timers not so quickly depleted, but I still had fun with it.

 

[Bladexdsl]

how many lame fucking pokemon games are they going to release this year?!

 

[chartube12]

Handheld mode only and another pokemon game without cloud saves

 

[Kwyjor]

Pokemon Rumble Rush is shutting down, so there's certainly no guarantee of success.

I think the last "tetris attack" like game was for the 3ds a few years ago then Pokemon Puzzle on the N64 and before Tetris Attack for the SNES ?

Animal Crossing Puzzle League was included in the Welcome Amiibo update for ACNL on the 3DS. And Panel de Pon itself was just rerelased on the Switch. While it is a fine game, I don't think there's a great deal anyone could do to improve it that would entice people to pay for it.