After launching Twitch, you may have seen a section named Pokemon Community Game under Trending. It has hundreds of viewers and thousands of followers. What is it and why are people watching it? How does it work? Here’s what you need to know to get started.

What is the Pokemon Community Game on Twitch?

Pokemon Community Game is a free-to-play extension for Twitch. Any streamer that adds this extension to their stream can have their chat catch, trade, and battle their favorite pokemon. It’s basically a way to play a Pokemon game among yourselves while you watch a stream.

How Does it Work?

Basically, viewers can type commands in chat and play the Pokemon Community Game. Through these commands, you can catch Pokemon, see your balance, buy items and even battle Pokemon.

Once you land up on a stream, you need to type !Pokestart which will give you a starter Pokémon. When a Pokemon spawns in the chat (which happens every 15 minutes), you need to use the !Pokecatch command to catch it. If you don’t have Pokeballs, you can use !Pokeshop to buy it. A pokeball costs $300, a greatball costs $600 and an ultraball costs $1000.

Pokemon Community Game Commands List

Here’s the list straight from the official source linked below.

How to Get Money (Poke-Dollars) in Pokemon Community Game?

Players can participate in the chat to catch pokemon. Avoid using any bot to farm money because this will lead to penalties. If you are subscribed to the channel, you get 50% more money. You can also sell items to get money.

There are lots more questions that you may have and they are all addressed in this Google document.

If you are a creator, you can follow the steps mentioned in this video to set it up: