[5][6] The player's Pokémon are measured with "Combat Power" (CP), and are obtained through beating the levels.

[5] Additionally, "Ores" can be randomly obtained at the end of every stage and can be refined for the user to obtain random summon gears, and power gears, and coins.

This is the first Pokémon mobile app that allows users to connect to their Nintendo Account, allowing various benefits such as cloud saving, My Nintendo rewards, and Mii avatar support.

Pokéland was intended to be similar to the Rumble series, though made available for smartphones.

An Android-only alpha test was held following the announcement, which covered six islands, over fifty stages and over 130 Pokémon, and ran until 9 June that year,[8] though no further news was released by The Pokémon Company until the May 2019 release.