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Pokémon raising sims

Pokémon games have breeding and care. Very few of them are a raising sim, meaning a calendar of training turns, stats, and a race at the end.

Poke Derby Base Camp on turn 9 of 78, with five stats and five training facilities
Screenshot: Poke Derby / Zietes

The line I used

  • A raising sim here means turn-based training, stats that move, and a race or debut as the goal.
  • Breeding, curry, and picnic eggs are care systems inside an RPG. I list them so the search has an honest answer.
  • There is no official definition of the phrase. This is my sort, dated 12 Nov 2026.
GameYearThe care pieceAgainst Poke Derby
Pokémon Gold and SilverGame Boy Color, 1999 / 2000Breeding and the Day CareAn RPG. Breeding is not the career.
Pokémon X and Y3DS, 2013Pokémon-Amie and Super TrainingMinigames and affection, not a race season.
Pokémon Sun and Moon3DS, 2016Pokémon RefreshGrooming, not a training calendar.
Pokémon Sword and ShieldSwitch, 2019Camp, curry, friendshipA campsite, not a race season.
Pokémon Scarlet and VioletSwitch, 2022Picnic, sandwiches, eggsAn open-world RPG.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby2021 Japan, 2025 worldwideFive stats, support cards, career goalsHorse girls and a gacha. Up to 18 in a field.
Poke DerbyBrowser and Windows, 202678 turns, five stats, five partners, twelve racersFree. Pokémon. Kanto courses. No gacha found.

If you wanted the sim

The Pokémon-shaped calendar is Poke Derby’s 78-turn career: five facilities, energy, mood, then a race. The genre’s other public benchmark is Umamusume, which trains horse girls and sells support cards. I am not ranking them by players. The sources checked for this page provide no Poke Derby player count to compare.

Poke Derby career setup showing partner cards. The public copy says five slots; this shot shows six
Screenshot: Poke Derby / Zietes

Questions

Is there a Pokémon breeding simulator?

The main series added breeding in Gold and Silver and still hatches eggs, including at picnics in Scarlet and Violet. That is a system inside an RPG, not a standalone breeding sim in this list.

What is the closest Pokémon raising sim?

Poke Derby, if you want Pokémon on a training calendar. Umamusume, if you want the horse-girl version of that calendar.

Keep reading

The five statsWhat the Poke Derby calendar actually trains.Racing gamesThe race half of the same genre question.Versus UmamusumeField size, gacha, and Team Trials.

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