Pikmin
Sign in to saveis a real-time strategy and puzzle video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and developed and published by Nintendo. The games focus on directing a horde of plant-like creatures called Pikmin to collect items by destroying obstacles, avoiding hazards, and fighting fauna that are hazardous to both the player character and the Pikmin.
Key facts
- Video game series.title
- Pikmin
- Video game series.image
- Pikmin series logo new.svg
- Video game series.caption
- Series logo since 2023
- Video game series.creator
- Shigeru Miyamoto
- Video game series.publisher
- Nintendo
- Video game series.first release version
- Pikmin
- Video game series.first release date
- October 26, 2001
- Video game series.latest release version
- Pikmin Finder
- Video game series.latest release date
- September 1, 2023
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- pikmin.nintendo.com
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- title
- ピクミン
- Commons category
- Pikmin
- publication date
- 2001-10-26
- described at URL
- www.digitalfoundry.net/video-game-franchises/pikmin
- hashtag
- pikmin_(series)
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17 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Characters
- Protagonists
- Pikmin creatures
- Other characters
- Development
- 2001–2003: ''Pikmin''
- 2004–2012: ''Pikmin 2''
- 2013–2022: ''Pikmin 3'' and spin-offs
- 2023–present: ''Pikmin 4'' and spin-offs
- Reception
- Legacy
- ''Pikmin'' Short Movies
- ''Close to You''
- Notes
- References
is a real-time strategy and puzzle video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto, and developed and published by Nintendo. The games focus on directing a horde of plant-like creatures called Pikmin to collect items by destroying obstacles, avoiding hazards, and fighting fauna that are hazardous to both the player character and the Pikmin.
The Pikmin series features four main entries as well as two spin-offs. The first two, Pikmin (2001) and Pikmin 2 (2004), were made and released for the GameCube and later ported to the Wii as New Play Control! titles in 2008 and 2009. Pikmin 2 was re-released in the Nintendo Selects series in 2012. Both titles were remastered for the Nintendo Switch in 2023 as Pikmin 1+2. A third installment, Pikmin 3, was released for the Wii U in 2013. An enhanced port of Pikmin 3 for the Nintendo Switch, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, was released in 2020. The series' first handheld game, Hey! Pikmin, was released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2017. Pikmin 4 was released for the Nintendo Switch in 2023. Pikmin Bloom, the series' mobile spin-off, was released for iOS and Android in 2021. Pikmin Finder, an augmented reality browser-based mobile game, was released in 2023.