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Hokko Life
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Details
- Released
- September 27, 2022
- Developer
- Gizmo Garden, Wonderscope, Robert Tatnell
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Team17
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · Switch · Xbox Series X|S
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Hokko Life Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Hokko Life has exited its early access stage and is now available on console so let's see how much fun this slow-paced village sim is.
Hokko Life is a well-developed cozy life sim that feels familiar enough to settle right into but has plenty of unique mechanics and creative freedom to keep even seasoned life sim players entertained for many hours of gameplay.
It may take time getting to show it, but Hokko Life is a delightfully deep and engaging community sim that lets you move at your own pace. Patience is very much required to see the best of it.
While playing, I realised that Hokko Life is trying too hard to be other games that it never really has the opportunity to grow into its own thing. It doesn’t shine on its own. The devs tried. They really did. Hokko Life is an obvious labour of love. But there is a certain je ne sais quoi lacking… charm, maybe? I’ve played a lot of life sims that made me excited to return, but this one didn’t. I know that a game’s not really hooking me when I’ve got to talk myself into playing it for hours just so I can get my review done in time.
Hokko Life is a farming/life sim that tries to make a name for itself but fails to stand out in a genre of more compelling titles.
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Hokko Life tries its best to be a cosy and chilly game like Animal Crossing on PC. The game tries to get the same feelings and gameplay across but misses the mark quite a few ways. This ends up with the game feeling monotonous, slow and grindy. Along with more bugs than the kind one captures.
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