Animal Crossing’s Biggest PC Rival Sure Has Grown
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Over the previous 12 months, 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 sport referred to as Hokko Life, and it’s coming to consoles subsequent month.
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At first look, Hokko Life undeniably bears a powerful resemblance to Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s juggernaut collection of life sims. Both video games are set in an idyllic little city, populated by animals who stroll and speak and stay out cute approximations of human lives. Both put an emphasis on farming and adorning. Like the villager participant character from Animal Crossing, you have got somewhat ax. The apparent similarities, you’ll notice within the video above, don’t finish there.
But Animal Crossing has solely ever been playable on Nintendo machines. There’s a vacuum for that particular taste of sport within the PC and mainline console ecosystems, which Hokko Life has presupposed to fill. Last 12 months, shortly after it turned obtainable in early entry on Steam, Kotaku Australia famous that it didn’t fairly really feel meaty sufficient to justify public availability.
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That was then. This is now. Throughout its 12 months in early entry, studio Wonderscope Games—the moniker for sport dev Robert Tatnell, who’s making Hokko Life solo—has rolled out plenty of updates, to the purpose the place Hokko Life is kind of a full sport. One added a ton of latest gadgets. Another added a perks system, kinda just like the one which’s current in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. But Hokko Life isn’t an actual one-to-one remapping of the sport that outlined the pandemic’s early goings. Customization in Hokko Life is way extra strong, as an illustration.
Hokko Life is at present playable in early entry on Steam, the place it has a “mostly positive” score based mostly on about 1,000 evaluations. It’ll see its full launch on PC, but in addition on Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, on September 27.
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