Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
The Mystery Dungeon logo used in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
Genre(s)Roguelike, Role-playing
Developer(s)Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft)
Publisher(s)
Creator(s)Koichi Nakamura
Platform(s)
First releasePokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team
November 17, 2005
Latest releasePokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
March 6, 2020
Parent series

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is a spin-off video game from the main Pokémon series developed by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Chunsoft). The games feature the fictional creatures called Pokémon who have the ability to speak human language navigating through a randomly generated dungeon using turn-based moves, common to Mystery Dungeon games. As of March 2020, there have been eleven games across five platforms, as well as several manga adaptations and animated specials.

These games are based in dungeons (“mystery dungeons”) where a floor map is randomly generated. In the dungeons, players fight other Pokémon while obtaining items and finding stairs to the next floor, exiting the dungeon after a fixed number of floors. Across all installments, the series has sold over 17.26 million copies.