Over the previous yr, an idyllic life sim starring anthropomorphic animals has quietly picked up steam. No, it’s not a brand new Animal Crossing. It’s an under-the-radar recreation known as Hokko Life, and it’s coming to consoles subsequent month.
At first look, Hokko Life undeniably bears a powerful resemblance to Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s juggernaut collection of life sims. Each video games are set in an idyllic little city, populated by animals who stroll and discuss and reside out cute approximations of human lives. Each put an emphasis on farming and adorning. Just like the villager participant character from Animal Crossing, you’ve a bit ax. The apparent similarities, you’ll be aware within the video above, don’t finish there.
However Animal Crossing has solely ever been playable on Nintendo machines. There’s a vacuum for that particular taste of recreation within the PC and mainline console ecosystems, which Hokko Life has presupposed to fill. Final yr, shortly after it turned accessible in early entry on Steam, Kotaku Australia famous that it didn’t fairly really feel meaty sufficient to justify public availability.
That was then. That is now. All through its yr in early entry, studio Wonderscope Video games—the moniker for recreation dev Robert Tatnell, who’s making Hokko Life solo—has rolled out quite a lot of updates, to the purpose the place Hokko Life is kind of a full recreation. One added a ton of recent objects. One other added a perks system, kinda just like the one that’s current in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. However Hokko Life isn’t a precise one-to-one remapping of the sport that outlined the pandemic’s early goings. Customization in Hokko Life is way extra strong, as an example.
Hokko Life is at the moment playable in early entry on Steam, the place it has a “largely constructive” ranking primarily based on about 1,000 critiques. It’ll see its full launch on PC, but additionally on Change, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, on September 27.
G/O Media could get a fee
As much as $200 off
Vertagear Summer time Gross sales 2022
Ergonomic premium high quality
Vertagear has quite a lot of gaming chairs on sale proper now. One specifically that caught our eye is the PL4500 which is embroidered with Swarovski crystals all the way down to $500. You may as well get considered one of their RGB kits so as to add a set of lights to both the highest cutout sections across the headrest or a backside LED package for $200 to gentle up beneath like your chair is in Want for Pace: Underground 2.
