Addicting match 3 game with a Pokémon skin. Very minor Pokémon mechanics are added, like catching the Pokémon you defeat and type effectiveness mattering. The Pokémon are all mono-type in this to simplify things a lot, which ironically can throw you off if you know Pokémon match ups very well because you can forget if a dual type represents one or the other of its types.

Some Pokémon will also have basic effects like becoming stronger if you're at less than half health, but these seem pretty rare, and the only Pokémon that has an effect that really tries to fit the Pokémon itself is Ditto which acts as a wild card.

There are some Pokémon that needs conditions to show up in a stage, but 99% of the time it's as basic as "defeat the previous Pokémon with a high combo and/or in one hit", but sometimes it's something flavourful, like beating Eevee with a fire move to make Flareon spawn. On the other hand sometimes it makes no sense, like needing to defeat certain with their own type to make their evolution spawn (and this isn't like acting as an evolution stone like Eevee since these ones will evolve by level up).

At first I got kind of bored because I thought the game was too mechanically simple; there aren't any restrictions on how you can move Pokémon around the board and there isn't much strategy involved in just lining up three of a kind. However, when the game gets a little more difficult later on, it becomes beneficial to try and line up five or six of a kind to launch a scatter attack, hitting multiple enemies at once so you can clear sections quicker and not take as much damage in the build-up to the boss encounters, so that adds an amount of strategy. Additionally, it's really satisfying clearing the board when the Trozei chance activates. Even then the game is still kind of slow though, so it's still a pretty standard match-three type game.