The game was distributed worldwide on September 1, 2023, to coincide with a Nintendo Live event in Seattle, Washington.

[2][3] At first, the player will find Pikmin sprouted in the ground that can be pulled out by swiping up on the phone screen.

Furthermore he described the game as being a "cute, distilled version" of Pikmin Bloom, mentioning it was good for only a "couple minutes of diversion".

[8] Gaming Bolt's Shunal Doke described the gameplay as "rather simplistic" and deemed nothing more than an advertisement for the recently released Pikmin 4.

[12] Hideaki Fujiwara from Automaton Media felt that while the game was meant solely to kill time while waiting, he added that the AR technology was put to good use and was "a glimpse of Niantic's proactive attitude towards expanding AR functions".