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Multiplayer Guide: How to Play Multiplayer

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Pokemon Pokopia - Multiplayer Guide
Both online and local multiplayer are available in Pokemon Pokopia for up to four players. Learn how to play in multiplayer, the available multiplayer modes, and the things you can do in multiplayer in this guide.

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Pokopia Multiplayer Guide

Multiplayer Modes
Mode Differences
Online Local GameShare

Multiplayer Mode Differences

Feature Online / Local Multiplayer GameShare
Crafting ✓ X
Mini Games ✓ X
Creating Habitats ✓ ✓
Meeting New Pokemon ✓ ✓
Building With Blocks ✓ ✓
Building With Kits ✓ X
Number of Players 2-4 2

Listed above are the differences between the multiplayer modes in Pokopia. Keep in mind that online and local multiplayer requires all players to have a copy of the game. On the other hand, GameShare only requires the host to have a game copy.

Online Multiplayer

4 Players Planting
To play online multiplayer, all players must have an active Nintendo Switch Online membership, a stable internet connection, and a copy of the game on their own consoles.

Online multiplayer is required if you want to play with friends who are far away from you.

Local Multiplayer

Selfie with a Friend
If you want to play with someone in your household or with friends visiting you in person, local multiplayer is the best way to play. You only need to be in the same room together to play local multiplayer.

A Nintendo Switch Online subscription is not required for any players when playing locally. An internet connection is also unnecessary. However, all players still need a copy of the game on their own Nintendo Switch 2 consoles.

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GameShare

GameShare

Pokopia supports GameShare, which allows one person with the game to share it with another person without the game. However, you can only share to one console at a time.

A player with a copy of Pokopia on a Nintendo Switch 2 system can share the game with another Nintendo Switch 2 or a Nintendo Switch system. The player receiving the game will not be able to keep the game on their system once the GameShare session ends, and can only have access to it while on GameShare.

How to GameShare Pokopia

How to Play Multiplayer

Select Link Play on the PC in the Pokemon Center

Link Play

Multiplayer Options Details
Invite Others to Visit Host: Player
Map: Player Host's Map
Connections: Online and Local
Opens your personal Island to invited friends.
GameShare Host: Player
Map: Host's Palette Town
Connections: Online and Local
Opens your Palette Town to friends that do not have the game. Friends will have limited gameplay options.
Visit a Friend Host: Friend
Map: Friend Host's Map
Connections: Online and Local
Head to a friend's personal island once they allow visitors.
Play on Cloud Island Host: None
Map: Cloud Island
Connections: Online Only
Allows you and your friends to go to a separate island by entering a shared code.

Select Link Play on the PC in the Pokemon Center to play with friends. Through the PC, you can invite players to your world, join other players in their world, or create a Cloud Island for your group.

Link Play becomes available on the Pokemon Center PC once you reach Environment Level 2. The GameShare option is only available in the Palette Town PC.

Bring a Follower as a Visitor

Visiting Another Player
As a visitor, you can also bring along a Pokemon from your main island. This can be any Pokemon, and if you plan to build or decorate your friend’s island, bring a Pokemon with a specialty that will be useful.

How to Have Pokemon Follow You

Online Connection Requires Nintendo Switch Online

Access to Online Connection multiplayer requires a subscription to Nintendo Switch Online. Which means you will have to pay extra money for multiplayer access.

Local Connection is free as long as you are playing with people in the same physical space.

GameShare Only Available in Palette Town

Unlock Palette Town
To unlock GameShare, you will need to unlock Palette Town, which is an area that you can rename. You will need to boot up the Palette Town PC and befriend Eevee before you are able to unlock GameShare and other multiplayer features.

You will be limited to playing in this area when using GameShare. No other area will allow you to start a GameShare session.

Share Your Codes for Cloud Island

Blurred Link Code

When playing on Cloud Island, make sure to share your Link Code and Cloud Island Address with your friends for them to be able to join your instance. You can also use your friends' code to join theirs.

You can find and confirm your Cloud Island Address and Link Code at the PC in the Pokemon Center.

View Other Cloud Islands With the Mysterious Goggles

Putting on Mysterious Goggles

You may view other Cloud Islands using the Mysterious Goggles item you can purchase at the PC Shop. You will not be able to use moves that change the environment, but you will be able to take reference photos and take note of habitats that you may not have yet.

You may use these goggles to view developer Cloud Islands as well.

List of Developer Island Codes

Multiplayer Host and Guest Differences

Guests Have a Separate Inventory

Separate Inventory During Multiplayer

When you are playing as a guest on another player's world, you will have a separate inventory. This means that you cannot bring or take home items from your multiplayer sessions.

Keep in mind that in Cloud Islands, all players including the host will have separate inventories.

Host Can Edit Cloud Island Settings

While any player can visit a public Cloud Island at any time, only the host can change its settings. They can also opt to delete the Cloud Island in order to create a new one.

Things to Do in Multiplayer

Build Your Island with Friends

4 Players Building
When playing multiplayer, all players will spawn in the world of the host player and will be able to modify the environment, craft furniture, build structures, and plant crops there. Even when the other players leave, the changes made to the host's island should remain intact.

Build Without Limits

Giant Ditto Building

You can build anything in Multiplayer Mode, even something as large as a skyscraper. The sky is the limit, and it is up to you and your friends' creativity to shape your entire island!

Register Pokemon in Your Pokedex

Finding a Magikarp
Playing multiplayer is a great way to fill your Pokedex with friends. Even if you're playing on a friend's island, you should be able to register Pokemon you discover there into your own Pokedex.

List of All Pokemon

Play Hide-and-Seek

Hide-and-Seek
You can also play Hide-and-Seek as a minigame in Multiplayer Mode. In this mode, most players hide while one seeker searches for everyone. You can even transform into an object for a better disguise.
How to Play Hide-and-Seek

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