Pokémon Pit of 100 Trials

Gohan's Tips
Oct 6
2 min read

Pokémon fan game: anime-style character, pixelated battle

Author: Team Aqua Leader Archie.

PROGRESS: Current Version: 2.5.1: Oct 06th 2025

It is a highly replayable, battle-focused roguelite ROM hack inspired by the famous "Pit of 100 Trials" from Paper Mario. Forget the traditional Pokémon journey; this game drops you into a random trainer gauntlet with a simple goal: survive 100 floors of increasingly difficult battles. You'll start with a small, random team and fight through random trainers. After every floor, you'll earn item drops, with safe zones every 5 floors to heal, prepare, and now, trade for new team members. Every 25 floors, you'll face a random boss for a chance to add a new Pokémon to your party. With three different versions based on Gen 3, Gen 5, and Gen 9 mechanics, a massive suite of customization options, and endless replayability, this is the ultimate Pokémon roguelite challenge.

🛑Features:

➡️A True Pokémon Roguelite Experience: Inspired by Paper Mario's Pit of 100 Trials, this game is a 100-floor randomized trainer gauntlet. Start with a random team, fight to survive, with "pit stops" every 5 floors and a powerful boss every 25.

➡️New Pit Stop NPCs for Trading & Leveling: A major new feature! Pit Stops now have new NPCs that allow you to purchase a trade for a new, random Pokémon, or level up your current team members, giving you crucial new ways to adapt your team during a run.

➡️Three Complete Game Versions (Gen 3, 5, & 9): Choose your favorite era of Pokémon! The game comes in three separate versions that are balanced around the unique mechanics, Pokémon, moves, and items of Generation 3, Generation 5, or Generation 9.

➡️Deep Customization & Game Modes: Tailor your entire run from an extensive in-game menu. This includes a full modular Randomizer, built-in Nuzlocke rules, unique challenges like Mono-type runs, and special presets for Ironmon and Race Mode.

➡️Modern Battle Gimmicks (Gen 9 Version): The Generation 9 version includes toggleable Mega Evolution, Z-Moves, Dynamax, and Terastallization (including the Stellar type), allowing you to use your favorite mechanics.

➡️Unique Battle Options & Improved AI: Change up the gameplay with options like Inverse Battles. Face off against smarter AI that uses healing items and switches more effectively, and take on reworked bosses with powerful, predefined ace Pokémon.

➡️All Pokémon Available & Playable: The entire roster of Pokémon for your chosen generation is available. You can also choose to play as any Pokémon species as your player avatar instead of a human trainer.

➡️Accessible Evolutions & All Forms: All evolution methods that would be impossible in a single run (like trading) have been altered. Special forms like Ash-Greninja and Zygarde Complete are in the game, with items like the Zygarde Cube to manage them.

➡️Modern UI & Countless Quality of Life Upgrades: Features a completely overhauled modern UI with a dark mode, Following Pokémon, a battle speed-up button, autorun, a detailed HGSS-style Pokédex, clearer ability descriptions, and new move animations.

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