Pokémon Sleep

Pokémon Sleep
So TPC, instead of getting Game Freak to fix Scarlet & Violet, you instead release a terrible Sleep Tracking app as a game?
Genre(s): Sleep Tracker disguised as a game. Platform(s): Android iOS Release: July 17, 2023 Engine: Unity Developer(s): SELECT BUTTON Publisher(s): The Pokémon Company Country: Japan Series: Pokemon

Pokémon Sleep is a mobile game developed by SELECT BUTTON and published by The Pokémon Company, it was released in select countries on July 17, 2023 and then worldwide 2 days later.

Why It Makes You Faint

1. In its official game trailer, it says to keep your screen on and put your phone plugged in on top of your bed which can be a fire hazard since the phone can overheat and cause a fire.
   • The game also requires you to keep your device on which drains the battery power, unlike most sleep tracker apps that will run in the background in which you can put your device to sleep mode by simply turning it off.
2. Terrible frame-rate in which the game will even struggle to run properly, in fact it even drops frames when you are trying to download the remaining 590MB of data that the game needs, which will fail due to the terrible frame rate.
   • To easily fix this on the download screen, you will need to press the left arrow button on an Android device until a pop-up shows up and the framerate will go back to normal.
3. The game will record audio from the microphone, which is pretty creepy and it could be used to collect your data. In fact, the game requires microphone access to be played.
4. Terrible sleep tracking: If the phone is slightly bumped, the app will believe you woke up early and you'll get a terrible score.
5. Related to WIMYF#2, the game is very unoptimized, in fact it runs poorly on low-end devices despite the 2D graphics.
   • In fact, if you explore the .apk file, the game is revealed to use the Unity engine, which explains the optimization issues.
6. For some of the Pokémon, you need to have terrible sleeping habits to obtain them, which pretty much encourages bad sleeping habits.
7. Overall, this game was too overhyped and when it came out, it was a terrible disaster.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Decent graphics.
2. The music for Pokémon Sleep is great.

Reception

Before the game was even announced, during 2020 many players were creating YouTube shorts in which they said the app will never come out at all. However 3 years later, it would later be announced in 2023 with tons of hype of players believing that the app will be good. But when it launched worldwide, it would later gain negative reception for its terrible framerate and various issues that the game had such as the app overheating the device and killing battery life.

As of now, the game has a 2.5 star rating on Google Play.

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