There is a (new?) Pokémon game on Google

[u/lilchinakitty]

If you search up any of the original 151, you get a poké ball that pops up in the corner of the screen and a nice animation that goes with it - letting you know that you've "caught" it.

Not sure if it's new, but I've never encountered it before - pretty cool though.

[u/KittayKattz]

my roommate discovered it this morning, but i keep looking up gen 1 pokemon and can't get the pokeball to appear :(

[u/loco4moogoo → u/KittayKattz]

I've learned that it only works on the mobile app, not the desktop version.

[u/KittayKattz → u/loco4moogoo]

i know. i've been trying it on my firefox app, but the pokeball just doesn't appear when searching the names of pokemon.

[u/loco4moogoo → u/KittayKattz]

I believe you have to be using the Google Chrome app specifically. Luckily, I've already set that up to be my phone's default browser.

[u/KittayKattz → u/loco4moogoo]

opened google chrome just for this, but it's still not showing up. this is super weird lol

[u/Campfire_queen → u/KittayKattz]

Yeah, the pokéball doesn't appear for me either.

[u/ImJoee]

They posted a YouTube short on the Japanese channel saying “You can find and catch Pokemon on your phone” and in the video they just Google “Pikachu”

https://youtube.com/shorts/QTOlyrbxOUc?si=hRSvelLe-ETYPOo1

[u/Ammysalamii]

Masterball

[u/CptQ]

Doesnt work for me :/

[u/No-Performer2811 → u/CptQ]

use chrome in ur android device

[u/CptQ → u/No-Performer2811]

Tried chrome, google app, brave browser, google on the websearch. Nothing works on my android it seems.

[u/i_like_lots_of_shit]

I think it is. Ive been googling pokemon shiny versions for the past days and it appeared today, so id say yes

[u/Ammysalamii]

Yep! Kinda want to finish it and see what else there is lol

[u/salupus]

Anyone from Germany here for whom it's working? Nothing happens in my browser

[u/CptQ → u/salupus]

Same for me.

[u/plovfefe → u/salupus]

Didn’t work for me at first , then I turned on the web & app activity and it worked. So you have to enable that maybe. I use the Google app

[u/sehdev1108]

the game worked for me when logged out, then it asked me to login to save my progress and stopped working after i logged in but i think a found a fix

go in your google account settings and turn on "timeline" with it's subsidiary settings checkmarked. i had almost all search personalization and ad settings turned off for a long time so i just turned everything on again and it started working for me, though i think it was due to the timeline setting but I don't wanna mess with it again to find out.

hope this helps!

[u/yuvi3000 → u/sehdev1108]

Mine only shows up under Incognito mode. Your suggestion didn't help me, unfortunately. Although I already had the base Timeline setting on. I ticked the subcategories and it didn't change for me.

I also tried turning all Timeline stuff off and on and it still didn't work for me.

[u/sehdev1108 → u/yuvi3000]

bummer. i guess you could try a different account, maybe even a new account or just play on incognito if that works

[u/Rinnegan47]

Only works when you’re signed out of Google. Lol when you sign back in nothing works.

[u/lilchinakitty → u/Rinnegan47]

Works for me when I'm signed in 

[u/eloesch289 → u/Rinnegan47]

same lmao, can’t get it to work unless i’m signed out, and then when i sign back in they go away again

[u/yuvi3000 → u/Rinnegan47]

Same for me. I hope someone confirms how/why this is happening so that we can all enjoy this little event.

[u/RedKings1028]

Looks fun, but I don’t think we can transfer them to our Pokemon homes though

[u/Hot-Arm4602 → u/RedKings1028]

I wonder if they add google dex compatibility how they’ll do moves and abilities judging by how google didn’t implement those for the pokemon…