【Pocket】An up-and-coming game maker that also serves to assist releases such as Overcooked 2! What kind of maker is Pocket, which is currently developing software for Nintendo Switch?

“It would be so interesting if there were a game like this!” “How exciting it would be if such an experience were possible.” There is a game company that turns such casual imaginations into works that can actually be enjoyed. That is Pocket Company. Numerous development companies exist in the game industry, but what the company cherishes is responding with surprise and emotion to someone's wish of “I wish this could be done.” Even with commonplace ideas, new play is born if you change the way they are combined. Even traditional genres begin to shine again when meeting the latest technology. Believing in such possibilities of entertainment is where Pocket-like charm can be felt. As can be associated from the company name, it is a company that stimulates the imagination, as if big dreams are packed inside a small pocket.

Looking at Pocket's works, what is particularly interesting is the abundance of titles connecting games and exercise. In 2024, “RIZAP for Nintendo Switch ~Bodily Sensation♪ Rhythm Training~” was released for Nintendo Switch. It is a work incorporating the fun unique to games: moving the body to the rhythm. Furthermore, “Uchi Tore ~[Shortest 4 Min] Muscle Training & Aerobic Exercise~” also appeared in 2023. “I think I need to exercise, but it hardly lasts...” For such people, games that can be tackled casually at home are attractive, aren't they? Including “FiNC HOME FiT” released in 2020, the point that it provides opportunities to incorporate exercise into daily life through games can be said to be one of the company's characteristics.

Of course, what Pocket works on is not only exercise-type titles. In 2019, “Overcooked Special Edition + Overcooked 2” was released for Nintendo Switch, and in 2021, “Overcooked! All You Can Eat” was released. Speaking of the Overcooked series, the lively game experience of completing dishes in a hectic kitchen is a charm. Scenes where voices fly around like “Please handle that plate over there!” and “The food is going to burn!” are also fun unique to this series. Playing thoroughly alone is good, but works where you can get hyped while cooperating with family and friends have a different kind of fun. From having such titles in the lineup, it is conveyed that Pocket is delivering a wide range of game experiences.

What wants attention paid to further is “HOMESTAR VR SPECIAL EDITION”. It is a work released for PlayStation VR in 2019 and for Oculus Quest 2 in 2020, possessing a charm with a slightly different flavor from the titles introduced so far. The starry sky world utilizing VR technology is a genre where an immersive experience can be enjoyed, differing from games that move the body or cooking games cooperating with companions. Exercise, cooking, and the universe. Lined up like this, aren't you surprised by the variety of works handled by Pocket? An attitude of trying to deliver the charm of entertainment from various directions without being bound to a single genre can be felt.

Pocket Company develops businesses related to planning, developing, selling, and distributing games and apps, centering on games for Nintendo Switch. If expressing its charm in a single phrase, wouldn't it be “the conceptual ability to connect familiar ideas into fresh experiences”? Making exercise enjoyable, enlivening time with companions, taking you to a world differing from usual. Ways of enjoying differ per work, but there is a common point of delivering new emotions to people's daily life. What kind of idea will take shape next, and what kind of play style will we encounter? Places that let us hold such expectations are precisely the major charm of the game company named Pocket.