Chinese language developer MiHoYo (HoYoverse) has formally unveiled a brand new recreation, its first life sim journey. It’s referred to 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”, but it surely 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 will join it with different planets to kind 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 truly be doing by yourself planet could be very a lot in-line with what you count on. There’s fishing, mining, cooking, planting, crafting and so forth. You may choose outfits to your characters to put on, design properties, organize areas and do different Sims-like issues.
The large focus, nevertheless, is on the completely 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 an extended day’s work and kind connections with different gamers.
Petit Planet is in improvement for PC and cellular – although specifics weren’t introduced. In case you’re , you’ll be able to signal as much as be among the many first to play the aptly-named Closed Beta Coziness Check, which you are able to do on the official web site.
