Skylanders: Trap Team

As in previous games, the player controls various characters by placing toy figures representing them onto a near field communication-enabled interface device called the Traptanium Portal, which activates the character in the game.

Trap Team adds the trap, a new type of item which, unlike the figures, which bring characters into the game, can be used to store forty-seven Villains and control them as playable characters who are more powerful than Skylanders. These stored characters can be taken to other consoles. The Traptanium Portal has a speaker incorporated in its design to emphasize the trapping mechanic; when enemies are "trapped", their vocals travel from a screen to the portal. The game features Skystones Smash, a mini-game that is the successor to Skystones from Skylanders: Giants. It is a number-based card game played in a tabletop style.

Kaos has blown up Cloudcracker Prison, creating the new elements of Light and Dark and freeing the Doom Raiders, the most notorious villains in Skylands, led by the Golden Queen and her cohorts The Gulper, Chompy Mage, Chef Pepper Jack, Dreamcatcher, Dr. Krankcase, and Wolfgang. With help from the Trap Masters and using Traptanium, a magic material that can harness the power of the elements, the Skylanders must round up and trap the villains, who can fight for them.

On April 23, 2014, Activision announced Skylanders: Trap Team for release on October 5, 2014.

Skylanders: Trap Team received "generally favorable" reviews for most platforms according to review aggregator website Metacritic; the iOS version received "universal acclaim". Despite the scores from Metacritic being slightly lower than that of the previous game on most platforms, the iOS version received the highest Metacritic score in the series.

During the 18th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Skylanders: Trap Team for "Family Game of the Year".