Daily Red Game FAQ

Daily Red is a free daily monster battle game you play in your browser. Each day everyone drafts from the same 8 monsters and battles the same champion, Vale, in a turn-based fight. It takes about five minutes.

Daily Red Game is an original daily monster battle inspired by Pokémon-style combat. Draft six of eight original monsters and challenge Champion Vale. It does not use Pokémon characters or the FireRed engine, and you do not battle trainer Red. All monsters, moves, art and code are original; the game is not affiliated with Nintendo or The Pokémon Company.

Yes. The monster pool, the champion's team, every damage roll, critical hit and status chance are all decided by the date. The same choices always give the same result, so you can compare turn counts with friends fairly.

A new battle opens at midnight in your local time zone. A countdown on the result screen shows how long until the next one.

You get one official try per day, and your progress is saved if you close the tab. For unlimited extra games, use Practice mode, which gives you a random team and a random champion line-up.

Par is the number of turns Vale's test bot needed to win today's battle. Finishing below par earns a star on your share grid.

There are 11 types: Flame, Tide, Leaf, Volt, Stone, Frost, Gale, Toxic, Mind, Shade and Beast. A super effective hit deals double damage, a resisted hit deals half, and some matchups do nothing at all. Monsters also get a 1.5× bonus when they use a move of their own type.

No. Daily Red Game runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop. There is no sign-up and no install.

Yes, it is completely free to play, and the daily battle has no ads.

Finish the daily battle, win or lose, on consecutive days. Your streak is stored in your browser, so use the same device and browser to keep it.