

The Farming Update added a new area to the game and let players test out their green thumbs. Since it launched in Early Access, Hokko Life has had numerous updates. And in addition to all of this, there’s also fishing and bug hunting! It’s quite a big game for what was mostly a one-person team to create. When expanding the town, place new homes wherever you’d like and just wait for new villagers to come to town! When it comes to decorating, both the inside and outside of any home can be done. Clothing, wallpaper, and flooring can also be created. At the design table, build furniture by combining shapes and materials. That’s right: literally everything is customizable. After gathering the materials, head to the workshop and put your spin on every item in the game. The forest and the abandoned mine hold a good chunk of the materials needed to craft. The town’s resident builder will be able to help expand the town and start attracting new villagers. Collect flowers and mix paints to design wallpapers, flooring, and clothing. Craft materials and combine them in a multitude of ways to create new furniture and items. In the aforementioned catch-up, I referred to Hokko Life as being a more customizable Animal Crossing, and I stand by that. Players will source material, craft, design, paint, build, decorate, fish, and hunt bugs. Players come to Hokko to settle into a new home (customizable!) and turn the village into a charming town (customizable!) by deciding how just about everything looks.

The game is very, very customizable life sim about starting over in a new place. I haven’t written about Hokko Life for over two years (it was in a catch-up coffee in 2020).
