The villagers want things too, whether it’s for you to drop off an item to someone, find them an item or for something to be crafted.

A couple of days later the construction is complete, the resident moves in, and the town grows with more friends. Gather the resources, pay the fees, and direct her to the spot where you want the new home. The local real estate pig (that’s not a dig – she really is a pig) moves into Hokko, where you’ll be able to pick from a small selection of housing styles, all requiring their own resources and a small sum of money to build new homes. Two days into my new life and already the village gofer. Obviously blown away by our ability to hold tools with hands that have opposable thumbs, the other villagers waste no time setting us to work in building new homes so more residents can move in. The following day, we built our own home by upgrading one of the derelict sheds in the meadow, and thus we are now interred fully as a resident of Hokko. They offer us a permanent room with little to no questions asked, and we are unceremoniously shoved off to bed to begin the next day of our new life. We wander to the village where we impose ourselves on the local humanoid elephant innkeeper.

We fall asleep on a train and alight at an unmanned station currently disabled for outbound journeys.

Hokko Life gives it a good try, clearly drawing strong influence from both. With games such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley both being classic life sims, it will be difficult for current and future developers to hold a torch to their legacies.

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