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Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

Nintendo 3DS • 2015

Should you play it?

What works

  • Huge roster of over 700 pokémon
  • Challenging and strategic combat
  • Extensive postgame content
  • Engaging story with emotional moments
  • Innovative connection orb recruitment system

Things to keep in mind

  • Slow and tutorial-heavy early game
  • Repetitive dungeon exploration
  • Inconsistent difficulty spikes
  • Some pacing and story weaknesses
  • Limited multiplayer and social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Planet Alcatraz 2

  • Solasta: Crown of the Magister

  • Stickman Strikes: Conquer Fantasy World

  • Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded-

  • Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition

  • Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

More intimate

Games that feels like Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon but with more focus on close relationships

Less social

Games that feels like Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Etrian Odyssey HD

  • Agarest: Generations of War

  • GRANDIA II HD Remaster

  • Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven

  • FINAL FANTASY IX

  • Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 05/08/2026