In Development Pokémon Echo

Demo out now. Download it here!​

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Synopsis​ Welcome to the Naisan Region: A vibrant land shaped by innovation, ancient mysteries, and hidden wonders. In Pokémon Echo, you join Professor Pallas as their assistant, exploring sprawling routes, forgotten temples, and long-lost settlements teeming with rare Pokémon. Rather than focusing on the Gym Challenge, your journey emphasizes archaeological discovery, solving puzzles in temple dungeons, connecting with locals, and piecing together Naisan’s hidden past.

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Trailer​

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Key features​

.	Narrative, exploration-driven gameplay filled with history and lore​	A twist on the battle rules we know and love​	. Quality-of-life & modernization​
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.	Navigate winding routes filled with secret paths that reward exploration and unearth Naisan's history alongside Professor Pallas in richly detailed dungeons.​	Pokémon Echo emphasizes double battles for added challenge. Every Pokémon features its own custom sprite and/or animation and a whole slew of custom battle backdrops.​	Pokémon Echo offers retro nostalgia without the grind, featuring a streamlined UI and items from later generations that make your gaming experience less tedious.​	.
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.	Newly animated Pokémon​	Advanced overworld interactions & puzzles​	. Inclusive player options​
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.	Every area showcases its own art direction, fully custom tilesets, color palettes, and intricate details to bring each environment to life.​	Use HM moves not just to clear obstacles, but to solve environmental puzzles and find rare Pokémon.​	Players in Pokémon Echo can choose avatars that present as female, male, or non-binary, each offered in a variety of skin tones.​	.
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Additional information​

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. About​ Pokémon Echo is a solo, fan-made tribute that blends the franchise’s familiar charm with modern storytelling influences, from The Legend of Zelda to Xenoblade Chronicles and Earthbound. It seeks to engage seasoned players craving deeper narrative layers while preserving the series’ family-friendly spirit. Stay tuned for updates as development progresses! .

. Development Status​ Although I leverage official Pokémon assets and the expansive Eevee Expo library to streamline production, as a one-person passion project, Pokémon Echo progresses steadily but deliberately. You can expect the first hands-on demo by late summer 2025. Thanks for your patience, and stay tuned for behind-the-scenes updates! .

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Credits, contributors, and resources​

.	Overall development and creative direction	Figyberries (shoot me a follow on IG if you'd like to see more!)
.	Essentials	Maruno, Poccil (Peter O.); please see Resource link for full credits	.
.	Generation 9 Resource Pack	Provided by Caruban; please see Resource link for full credits	.
.	Gen IV Overworld Sprite Pack	VanillaSunshine	.
.	Animated Pokémon System	Ludicious89	.
.	Deluxe Battle Kit	Ludicious89	.
.	Automatic Level Scaling	Benitex	.
.	Overworld Shadows	LukaSJ	.
.	Pokémon IP	The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and Game Freak– no copyright infringement intended.	.
.	.	The list of credits will continuously be updated as the project progresses.

 

[FelicityWivi]

Absolutely LOVE everything I’ve seen here, the art is so gorgeous - really looking forward to the future of this project!

 

[elinthind]

This looks so neat!!!!! I'm excited to see what you make; i love your art style

 

[clockstops]

This looks perfect!

 

[just_a_husk]

I saw your demo trailer in the discord yesterday, really happy to see how far you've come on this project! Looking forward to playing it!

 

[figyberries]

It's been a while since this thread was updated, but here I am with a new update! Development is going steady and we have a trailer now!

 

[JesterT252]

This looks so clean. I'm particularly a fan of the double battle focus.
Can't wait for the demo drop!

 

[Jona1]

i saw the trailer in yesterday night and i am really hyped i cant wait to play the demo but two pokemon as starters in the game is really cool!!

 

[Nick Blaze]

is the demo still releasing today ?

 

[figyberries]

is the demo still releasing today ?

It's expected to be released by the end of the week! I'm tieing up some loose ends and doing some final sprite work, but we're almost there. :)

 

[Folk]

I honestly worried if this game using pokemon essentials below version 21.1 there well known bug of fps drop in tall grass after long period of time and fps drop on city

 

[figyberries]

Hi all! I just realized I completely forgot to add the download link to the thread. For those who haven't seen it pop up on Discord yet: The demo is now out. I'd love to hear what you all think. Thank you!

 

[Tomix9tomix]

Just played through the first 2 hours and a bit, and I'm absolutely loving it. I honestly think it's safe to say that this is the most beautiful fangame I've ever played. It's amazing. It looks unrecognisable from essentials. And it's not just the visuals that have a lot of effort put into it, you've obviously tried to create a proper world here. From npcs having day and night cycles to all the hidden grottos spread about the world. You've done an amazing job. Everything just has so much character.

I did encounter one small bug, when talking to the game devs, you can cancel out of most of their menus, but the one in the bottom right has it set so that if you press cancel it will just treat it like you chose the pokemon essentials options instead of letting you leave. This means the only way to actually stop interacting with that npc is to go into a different sub menu and then cancel out of that one.

It terms of critism, I do feel like there are a few too many trainers. It feels rather dense in some of the areas, but I guess exploring is optional so it's not that bad. Most of them can be skipped. But because of the somewhat limited amount of available pokemon, a lot of the trainers repeat what pokemon they use heavily. I did a loop around the left side of the island before oging into the new city, and it felt like I had to fight trainers with cutifly and azumaril and wingull an uncountable amount of times.

Compared to everything else in the game though, these are really just small pieces of feedback. I love what your team has done, and I also love how you've made the dev room into a sort of interactable credits. It's super charming. Looking forward to playing more

 

[ScarletSpectre]

Okay so I finished the demo for now, pretty sure I have some areas to explore but overall this was a very solid demo! Graphically the game is PHENOMENAL, easily one of the best looking fan-games i've played, the team should be very proud in that department. I will say that the beginning of the game didn't entirely grasp my attention but it def picked up after Gym 1. Another thing was that there did seem to be quite a lot of trainers which I will say did lead to a lot of battles feeling a bit samey due to the Pokemon they had. I will say the addition to Pokemon and different interaction with trainers during the day and night made the game feel a lot more lively and was an amazing addition.

Here are a few things that I noticed that were mostly graphical areas:

• In the first city I noticed Driftblim clipped into the building and clipped while going upwards
• When selling an item and attempting to sell another one the item won't be highlighted until you go back.
• The UI for reorganizing moves is slightly messed up.
• When going down the ladder with Evander following you there are certain visual bugs that occur.
• When walking to the right exit on the route above the gym arena city, the teleport spot itself was positioned a bit off.

Despite these it was a fun experience and i'm looking forward to seeing what Echo does later down the line.

[apparently most of these are fixed in a newer update of the demo, I didn't know there was a new update lol]