Free Yourself From The Pressure Of Playing Pokémon Pokopia Wrong

Games like Animal Crossing and the newly released Pokémon Pokopia are meant to be relaxing, but some people play them as if they were competitive esports. Pokopia has been out for less than two weeks, and every day brings another impressive engineering feat while my own Pokémon live in makeshift homes that look like solitary confinement cells.

That can be enough to make a player put the game down, until a cheerful companion reminds you why you’re here. You can look to other players for inspiration—after all, they have the same tools and sometimes you don’t know what’s possible until you see it. Still, using someone else’s progress as a measure of what you should already have accomplished misses the point; not everyone shares the same priorities.

I rushed through the main story to pursue its mystery, while others are content slowly curating a space on the first map. Life sims are often designed to be taken at your own pace.

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