• Pokemon Uranium is now free to download for PC users

Pokemon Uranium is now free to download for PC users (Photo : YouTube / GameSpot)

Pokémon Uranium is a fan made game that was under development for almost a decade and is now released for free amidst the explosion of the popular Pokémon GO AR game across the globe.

Nintendo's popular franchise has spawned several movies, TV shows and different games. Pokémon Uranium is different as it has been made meticulously by fan developers over the past nine years.

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In order to avoid as much as legal conundrum against Nintendo, the developers Involuntary Twitch and JV made all of their 150 new and unofficial Pokémon from scratch. They made all of them with new designs and animations for players to enjoy.

Pokémon Uranium also has a new "Nuclear" type of Pokémon that is critical to the game's main plot, CNET has learned. Most of them are colored black and green which is in line with the whole nuclear plot of the game.

Just like many fan-made games, Pokémon Uranium is free to download for PC users. Unfortunately, it is not available for mobile platforms and the fact that the main game took nine years to could mean that a mobile port far from any possibility.


PC users do not need a high-end rig to play the fan-made game. Pokémon Uranium is styled similarly to the Pokémon games for the Game Boy Advanced consoles with sprites and updated user interface, The Bitbag reported. Versions for Linux and Mac are expected to roll out soon along with multi-language support for non-English speakers.

Some gamers are excited to try out Pokémon Uranium but others are worried that Nintendo might take it down too considering what happened to AM2R: Another Metroid 2 Remake. The fan-made Metroid game was taken down after Nintendo warned the developer DoctorM64 who developed it for several years.

It is unclear as to how fans will now download AM2R but the developer said that it will be continued to be developed underground as not to attract Nintendo's eyes. Pokémon Uranium might fall to the same fate but the most likely copyright claim would be just the use of the Pokémon name and not the content itself.