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Pokémon racing games

Yes. There are only a few, and most of them are old. This page says which ones are races and which popular Pokémon games are not.

Charizard crossing the finish at Cerulean Cape while the rest of the field is exhausted
Screenshot: Poke Derby / Zietes

What I counted as a race

  • The goal is to finish a course ahead of others, or to clear checkpoints on a timed track.
  • A mini-game inside a battle collection counts only as a mini-game.
  • A fighter, a board game, or an action RPG does not become a racing game because a search box sat them nearby.
GameKindWhere and whenCount it?
Pokémon DashRaceNintendo DS. Japan 2 Dec 2004. Europe 11 Mar 2005. North America 14 Mar 2005.Yes. Pikachu and checkpoints. Grand Prix, five cups, five tracks each. A Game Boy Advance cartridge can shape a track.
Pokémon Race miniPlatform racePokémon Mini. Japan 19 Jul 2002. Not released in North America or Europe.Yes, with that region limit. Pikachu versus Chikorita, Wooper, Pichu, or Sandshrew.
Pokémon StadiumMini-gamesNintendo 64. Japan 1999, West 2000.Partly. Kids Club has nine mini-games, some of them races, for up to four players.
Poke DerbyRaising plus raceBrowser and Windows. Version 1.0.0 on 30 Oct 2026.Yes. Twelve racers, 21 Kanto courses, 146 species, free. Made by Zietes.
Pokkén Tournament DXFighterSwitch, September 2017, Bandai Namco.No.
Pokémon DuelBoard gameMobile. Japan April 2016, worldwide January 2017. Servers closed 31 Oct 2019.No.
Pokémon RumbleAction RPGWii, 2009, Ambrella.No.

Where Poke Derby sits

Dash and Race mini are the published Pokémon races. Poke Derby is the 2026 career that puts a trained Pokémon on a track with eleven others. It is a fan game in the sense that Zietes made it and Nintendo did not. The download is on the play page. I am not cataloguing every ROM hack. If I cannot point at a public page the way I can point at Wikipedia for Dash, the row stays off this list.

Twelve racers on a snowy Seafoam Islands course, with Squirtle using Streamlined Shell
Screenshot: Poke Derby / Zietes

Questions

Is there a Pokémon racing game?

Yes. Pokémon Dash on DS, Pokémon Race mini on the Pokémon Mini in Japan, race mini-games in Stadium, and Poke Derby on browser and Windows.

Is there a Pokémon racing game on Switch?

Pokkén Tournament DX is on Switch and it is a fighter. I do not have a published Switch racing game to add.

Is Poke Derby a kart racer?

No. It is a raise-then-race career. The race is a track with running styles, not karts.

Keep reading

Games like Poke DerbyThe shorter decision list.Raising simsThe training half of the same question.Play Poke DerbyBrowser and Windows.

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