"Pokémon Sleep" Is Coming In 2020 to Make Sure You're All In Bed at Respectable Hours

Pokémon GO made walking fun. Now, this new Pokémon app will make you wanna sleep?

Let's not pretend we weren't all obsessed with Pokémon GO at some point in the last four years. It was a runaway app that temporarily made us walk 20 kilometres a day in the hope of finding a Pokémon we hadn't already caught.

We were all Ash Ketchum.

Sadly for The Pokémon Company, all crazes do tend to end as quickly as they started and three years later, you'll find few left dedicated to the cause.

But today, they announced there are four big things on the way for fans. 

There's a Detective Pikachu video game sequel heading to Nintendo Switch; they're creating a cloud-based service called Pokémon HOME that will let you connect your Poké team across devices; and there's Pokémon Masters, where you can battle all the series' Poké trainers.

The most interesting one for us? Pokémon Sleep.

Unlike Pokémon GO before it, which arguably promoted people getting more active, Pokémon Sleep seems to be doing the opposite.

The details are still light at this stage but it seems that the better you sleep, the more you're rewarded in the game. Whether this means your Pokémon are trained to be stronger the more you sleep or just that you'll have more opportunities to encounter other Poké creatures is yet to be confirmed.

The concept was enough to evoke some other productive ideas.

When the squad gets together to play Pokemon Sleep 😍 pic.twitter.com/AsVVmXGv5k

— The Bryan Atkinson (@Wow_no_inv) May 29, 2019

2016- Pokemon GO
2020- Pokemon SLEEP
2024- Pokemon EAT
2028- Pokemon GAME
2032- Pokemon REPEAT

— creepah, aww man 🌱🍄 (@shoutmilo) May 29, 2019

Pokémon Sleep is great now they just need to make Pokémon Eat and Pokémon Stop Falling in Love With Emotionally Unavailable People and i'll be set

— merritt k (@merrittk) May 29, 2019

Start training your sleeping schedules now before it drops in 2020. Zzzz.

Header Image: The Pokémon Company