Pokémon Shuffle Available Now in Europe

European 3DS owners can now download Pokémon Shuffle on the eShop.

The free-to-play title contains gameplay similar to Pokémon Link! on Nintendo DS and its 3DS eShop successor Pokémon Link: Battle!, tasking the player with sliding the faces of various Pokémon around in order to match them up. The difference here is that Pokémon Shuffle gives the player five free 'hearts', or chances to play; when these are depleted, the player can either buy more lives through microtransactions or wait a certain amount of time for them to be regenerated.

The download is a tiny 686 blocks and is available now in Europe and Japan. A North American release is also scheduled for today.