About Pokémon Xenoverse

Pokémon Xenoverse: Per Aspera ad Astra is a fan-made Pokémon role-playing game set in the original Eldiw region. You play as Kay or Alice, a Nova Ranch native searching for a missing father, Versil, while interdimensional faults and the mysterious "X Species" spread across Eldiw, drawing the attention of the sinister Team Dimension. See our Characters and Walkthrough pages for more.

It was created by Team WEEDle (WeedleTeam), an independent fan developer group also credited as Beehive Studios. It is built with RPG Maker XP and the Pokémon Essentials v16 engine, running on mkxp-z — the same general toolset used by many other Pokémon fan games — not with any official Nintendo/Game Freak tools.

It's a Latin phrase meaning roughly "through hardships to the stars," used as the game's subtitle. You'll see the full name written as Pokémon Xenoverse: Per Aspera ad Astra.

Yes — Xenoverse: Per Aspera ad Astra has been released as a complete game by its developers, rather than an ongoing early-access demo. See our download page for current version details, which we keep verified and dated.

Yes. It's a free fan-made game. We never charge for access and we link only to legitimate, free distribution sources — see our download guide.

It's a widely played, long-established fan game, but as with any independently distributed software, only download it from the sources we link to on our download page — never from unrelated "download" sites that repackage or bundle installers with extra software.

No. A ROM hack is a modified version of an existing cartridge game's code. Xenoverse is not that — it's a standalone game built from scratch with RPG Maker XP and the Pokémon Essentials engine. No original Pokémon game files, cartridges, or ROMs are required or modified.

No — this is a common misconception, and some download-aggregator sites incorrectly list it under "Game Boy Advance." Xenoverse is a Windows PC game. It has no relationship to the GBA, does not run in a GBA emulator, and does not require any GBA-related files.

There's no official Android build, but the game can be played on Android using JoiPlay, a free third-party app that runs RPG Maker XP and Pokémon Essentials games (it is not a Game Boy emulator). See our dedicated Android / JoiPlay guide for full setup steps.

There's no native macOS build. Mac users generally run it through Windows-compatibility tools such as Wine/CrossOver, or a Windows virtual machine. See the Mac section of our download guide for details.

No. As a fan-made PC game, it has no official presence on Nintendo Switch or any other Nintendo console/service, and cannot legitimately be installed on one.

"Ordem et Chaos" (Portuguese for "Order and Chaos") is a name associated with an earlier build/demo related to this project's development history. If you're looking for the current, complete game, that's Pokémon Xenoverse: Per Aspera ad Astra — the two names refer to the same underlying project at different points in its development.

Eldiw is the original, fictional region created for Pokémon Xenoverse — it is not based on any official Pokémon region. It's the setting for the game's entire story. See our World of Eldiw directory for documented locations.

No. PokemonXenoverse.com is an independent fan resource. We are not Team WEEDle / WeedleTeam, and we are not affiliated with Nintendo, Game Freak, or The Pokémon Company. We built this site because we wanted a single, well-organized, accurate, and fast resource for the game — see "Who maintains this site" below.