Pokémon Conviction

Gohan's Tips
May 27
2 min read

Author: wardenzero.

PROGRESS: Project Version 1.0 Demo 3/10 Chapters (24/05/2026) - Roughly 12-15 hours of gameplay. The full version featuring 10 planned chapters and multiple endings is in progress.

A narrative-focused Pokémon fangame set in the authoritarian State of Varadus. After being accused of treason, you are sentenced to the inescapable Northspire Penitentiary. To survive, you must navigate a surveillance-heavy prison, align with rival factions or the State, and take on the Dog Tag Challenge using a Pokémon entrusted to you by a cellmate. This demo contains the first three chapters of the story.

🛑Features:

➡️Exploration Within A Prison-Based Map: The game takes place almost entirely within an interconnected prison complex featuring diverse areas and hidden passageways to unlock with each chapter, reducing the need for tedious backtracking.

➡️Reputation System: A dynamic tracking system reacts to your decisions, influencing how different characters and factions perceive you, which alters dialogue and gameplay outcomes.

➡️Original Artwork: Features custom-drawn character artwork and custom trainer sprites.

➡️Unique Starters: Players can choose between Scraggy, Sneasel, or Murkrow as their starting Pokémon.

➡️Side Quests: Optional missions from inmates and guards that allow you to earn rewards, uncover secrets, and influence the game world through branching outcomes.

➡️Enhanced Battle System: Powered by the Deluxe Battle Toolkit, battles feature unique fight conditions, specialized trainers, and custom mechanics tailored to the prison environment.

➡️Quality of Life Features: Includes HM key items instead of moves, a speed-up button, multiple save slots, autosave, togglable Exp Share, visible IVs in the UI, reusable TMs, Nature Mints, an increased shiny rate (1/1024), and the ability to nickname Pokémon at any time.

➡️Decisive Difficulty and Content: Features a level cap system designed to be more challenging than mainline games, alongside a darker, mature narrative containing suggestive dialogue and mild violence.

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