First Zelda, then Pokemon, and now HoYoverse is making its personal Animal Crossing with Petit Planet

Chinese language developer MiHoYo (HoYoverse) has formally unveiled a brand new recreation, its first life sim journey. It’s known as Petit Planet, and it’s the second new announcement in a month, following on from the studio’s Pokemon-like, Honkai: Nexus Anima.

Very like Nexus Anima, Petit Planet could be very a lot taking cues from established video games to assist the developer enter a brand new style, this time being the comfy life sim style of video games like Animal Crossing, and The Sims.

MiHoYo describes Petit Planet as a “cosmic life simulation”, however it very a lot has Animal Crossing vibes. The announcement press launch even teases how gamers will get to spend their time with “distinctive” neighbours.

It has a intelligent setup, the place gamers are tasked with nurturing and rising their very own planet earlier than they’ll join it with different planets to type a galaxy. There’s an enormous aspect of creativity and sharing on this, too, which we get a touch of within the trailer.

What you’ll really be doing by yourself planet could be very a lot in-line with what you anticipate. There’s fishing, mining, cooking, planting, crafting and so forth. You possibly can decide outfits on your characters to put on, design properties, prepare areas and do different Sims-like issues.

The massive focus, nevertheless, is on the totally different connections you can also make together with your companions and their planets, including a component of relationship constructing to the combination. Within the trailer, we additionally get to see gamers leaving their very own islets and venturing into unknown areas to find new recipes and discover uncommon creatures.

Galactic Bazaar is the sport’s hub space, the place everybody will get collectively to hang around after a protracted day’s work and type connections with different gamers.

Petit Planet is in improvement for PC and cellular – although specifics weren’t introduced. For those who’re , you’ll be able to signal as much as be among the many first to play the aptly-named Closed Beta Coziness Take a look at, which you are able to do on the official web site.