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However, this game’s real focus is the community, building new homes, encouraging people to move into the area, and customising everything – from your look, buildings and furnishings to who you want to live with you. It’s easy to get carried away with these tasks as they’re so much fun as a standalone. However, creating your own designs unlocks new abilities through the medal system.Īnother familiar skill tree, the more you do an action or source items, you’ll improve your abilities and unlock new items like emotes and upgraded gear. The latter gives Hokko Life the edge over its ‘competitors’, but manipulating 3D objects with a controller can be awkward, and it’s sometimes better to buy what’s available. Besides the community hubs, stores, real estate and fashion centres, you can also farm and craft bespoke furniture. Once again, the game uses similar mechanics to Animal Crossing – even the acoustic little jingles feel straight from Nintendo. Source: Steam More tea, Vicar? Source: Steam I could easily play this all day, but do note that there’s some hoop jumping before you see the good stuff. Theoretically, you could play Hokko Life on a loop and not worry about being restricted in terms of possession. As mentioned before, you can skip days by resting/sleeping in a bed for two or six hours or until the next day, advancing specific quests, or restocking the local resources you’ve milked a few days before. Unlike Hokko Life Early Access, the pace is smoother, and you get into the action early. Who needs words when you can emote? When it comes to interactions, it’s all quite lovely and welcoming.

Your customisable character doesn’t have a speaking part – if you do reply, it’s always something upbeat like “Great!”.

When entering a dialogue with the locals, if you ever get the option to reply, it won’t impact the outcome much. How you arrived here is irrelevant – the point is, you’ll never want to leave (IRL, too). Much like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you arrive in town and can put your ideas into action, tarting up the place with various items, donning fashionable clothes and introducing (and evicting) residents to your humble little village. It’s sharper than the Nintendo and perhaps a little slicker? I was actually hoping to play a game with my kids using crossplay, but I may have misunderstood the feature and instead went solo. The portability of the Nintendo Switch is a winner, but because the Steam Deck is taking up too much of my sofa time, it was refreshing to play Hokko Life on the PS4.

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