PokeIdle - A turn-based Pokemon roguelike game

The goal is simple: you play with pokemon in pokeidle, and you fight wild pokemon. You gather a pokedex, a Shiny pokedex, and you grind for the 100%. The game was designed to stay extremely simple. You lock in a route and let pokeidle play itself, focusing purely on the core loop of pokemon progression and pokedex completion.

The updates were light over the past years, mostly aligning pokeidle content with newer pokemon games and expanding the available pokedex. Over time, it became clear that the game needed more depth while preserving its idle nature, taking inspiration from classic idle mechanics while keeping pokeidle approachable for both casual pokemon fans and completionists chasing a full pokedex.

On December 25th, a massive update for pokeidle was released after months of beta testing. This update introduced meaningful gameplay changes while maintaining simplicity, ensuring that training pokemon and filling the pokedex remains intuitive.

Here’s the changelog for pokeidle, focused on improving long-term pokemon progression and pokedex depth:

Prestige System: When your pokemon reaches level 100 in pokeidle, you can prestige it for a permanent percentage bonus to all stats. Wild pokemon can also have prestige levels, adding challenge and variety while working toward your pokedex.

Route Encounter Rates: All routes in pokeidle have been reworked to match official pokemon games. This allows future regions to expand the global pokedex logically, enabling encounters across regions.

Subroutes: Certain routes now include subroutes in pokeidle, such as Surfing or Rod-based areas, increasing pokemon diversity and adding more strategic depth to pokedex completion.

Team and Storage Rework: To support the prestige system, teams in pokeidle are capped at six pokemon. Any additional captures are sent to storage, keeping pokedex progression clean and manageable.

Evolution Rework: pokeidle now lets you choose evolutions for branching pokemon, eliminating forced cycles and ensuring every entry in the pokedex can be obtained logically.

Special Pokémon: A unique pokemon has been added to pokeidle with an extremely low encounter rate, offering an ultimate challenge for dedicated pokedex hunters.

Healing Rework: Healing mechanics in pokeidle now rotate your active pokemon, making experience farming and pokedex optimization more strategic.

Route Colors: Routes in pokeidle now visually indicate whether all base pokemon have been captured for that area, helping players track pokedex completion more easily.

Due to these large-scale changes, many routes were temporarily removed from pokeidle. However, regular updates are planned to reintroduce and expand routes, steadily rebuilding the full pokemon experience and global pokedex.

Numerous QoL improvements are also coming to pokeidle, including UI refinements, auto-prestige options, and advanced route settings, all designed to streamline pokemon training and pokedex management.

Note: Older saves are not compatible with the new pokeidle version. Legacy support will be provided so long-time pokemon players can still access their previous pokedex progress.

If you’re a returning player, enjoy rediscovering pokeidle with fresh pokemon systems and a deeper pokedex. If you’re new, welcome—and feel free to join the community for feedback, discussion, and tips.

Thanks for playing pokeidle and helping shape the future of this pokemon idle experience and its ever-growing pokedex.

Prestige Update (12/25/25) – The biggest update of PokeIdle to date. This update is NOT compatible with older saves. A legacy version will be available for players who want to keep playing the old version.

• Prestige System added: Pokémon reaching level 100 can now prestige for permanent percentage stat bonuses.
• Routes reworked: All routes were removed and redesigned to better match in-game accuracy. Low encounter rate Pokémon are now much rarer, enabling future cross-region encounters.
• Wild Pokémon can now have prestige levels, increasing encounter difficulty.
• Team & Storage rework: Team size capped at 6 Pokémon; additional captures go to storage. Search and sorting fixed.
• Mobile release fix: Hold-to-confirm release added.
• Evolution rework: Choose evolution paths for multi-evolution Pokémon.
• Route coloration added (based on akerus user script).
• Back sprites removed to save resources.
• Special Pokémon added with a 1/50k encounter rate on any route.
• Ball drop rate and maximum amount reduced.

NGGYU Open World Update (02/15/23)

• Full Gen 9 support added.
• Page visibility improved and useless credits removed.

NGGYU Legendary Update (09/21/22)

• Legendary and Gigantamax mechanics reworked with rotating event routes.
• Shiny spawn sound notification added.
• PokeBall drop rules adjusted with maximum capacity limits.

NGGYU NGLYD (10/08/2017) – Official release version after 6 months of development. Focused on event control and future Pokémon content.

NGGYU 1.9.4 → 1.9.0 (08/09/2017 – 08/19/2017)

• Pokedex UI and logic improvements.
• Last visited location is now saved.
• New catching options: All / New.
• Team management sorting by Pokedex, Level, or Power.
• Special stats added to battle calculations.
• First functional Pokedex with Normal and Shiny support.

NGGYU 1.8.0 (08/06/2017)

• Save and load system added with cross-device support.
• Chrome performance improvements.

NGGYU 1.7.x → 1.6.x (07/30/2017 – 08/03/2017)

• Forme switching system introduced.
• Multi-branch evolution testing.
• Alola region added (final region at the time).
• Major performance and crash fixes.
• Kalos region added.

NGGYU 1.5.0 → 1.3.1 (07/21/2017 – 07/25/2017)

• Unova, Sinnoh, Hoenn regions added.
• Mega Evolutions introduced.
• Shiny Pokémon system added with automatic best-ball usage.
• Region navigation overhaul.

NGGYU 1.2 → 1.0 (07/15/2017 – 07/16/2017)

• Realistic catch rate formula implemented.
• Evolve button added.
• Permanent Mega Evolutions introduced.

NGGYU .9 → .1 (03/20/2017 – 02/28/2017)

• Team ordering and management improvements.
• Auto-healer added.
• Battle stat rework including Special stats.
• Major database cleanup and optimization.
• Initial public release.

In pokeidle, the goal is simple: play with pokemon, fight wild encounters, and gradually complete your pokedex. You select a route, lock it in, and let the game run automatically, making it a pure idle experience designed to fit alongside other activities.

Progression in pokeidle focuses on long-term planning rather than constant interaction. By choosing the right routes and targets, you can efficiently train your pokemon while steadily expanding your pokedex, including shiny variants and rare encounters.

Healing, evolution, and team management in pokeidle are streamlined to reduce friction. The system automatically supports experience farming, allowing you to focus on optimizing which pokemon to train next and which gaps remain in your pokedex.

Prestige System: In pokeidle, once a pokemon reaches level 100, it can be prestiged to gain permanent stat bonuses, adding long-term depth for players aiming to fully optimize their pokedex.

Accurate Route Encounters: Routes in pokeidle have been reworked to match official pokemon games, making regional progression more authentic while expanding the logical structure of the global pokedex.

Subroutes System: pokeidle introduces subroutes such as Surfing and Rod-based areas, increasing encounter variety and allowing players to discover more pokemon for their pokedex.

Team & Storage Rework: Teams are capped at six pokemon in pokeidle, with additional captures sent to storage, keeping progression clean and pokedex tracking efficient.

Evolution Selection: pokeidle allows players to manually choose evolution paths for branching pokemon, ensuring every entry in the pokedex is obtainable without frustration.

Rare & Special Pokémon: A special pokemon with an extremely low encounter rate can appear on any route in pokeidle, providing an ultimate challenge for dedicated pokedex collectors.

Route Completion Indicators: Colored routes in pokeidle visually show whether all base pokemon have been captured, helping players clearly track pokedex progress.

Ongoing QoL Improvements: Regular updates to pokeidle focus on UI polish, automation options, and route settings, all aimed at making pokemon management smoother and pokedex completion more satisfying.