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Pokémon Quest

Grinding random stone drops into stat loadouts that auto-battles then resolve.

Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
Match your experience?
EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    1/10

    Auto-battling needs only occasional taps

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    0/10

    Wild cube Pokémon follow simple scripts

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    5/10

    Cooking ingredients and stone drops are random

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    6/10

    Power stone loadouts and team stats decide expeditions

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

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Game details

Released
2018
Developer
Game Freak
Franchise
Pokémon
Platforms
Android, iOS, Switch
Modes
Single player
IGDB critics
60/100
IGDB users
66/100
Role-playing (RPG)SimulatorStrategyAdventureAction