Chinese language developer MiHoYo (HoYoverse) has formally unveiled a brand new sport, 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 similar to Nexus Anima, Petit Planet may be very a lot taking cues from established video games to assist the developer enter a brand new style, this time being the comfortable 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 will join it with different planets to kind a galaxy. There’s an enormous ingredient 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 may be very a lot in-line with what you anticipate. There’s fishing, mining, cooking, planting, crafting and so forth. You’ll be able to decide outfits on your characters to put on, design houses, organize areas and do different Sims-like issues.
The massive focus, nonetheless, is on the totally different connections you may make along 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 growth for PC and cellular – although specifics weren’t introduced. When you’re , you may 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.
