Ya’ll. This October will mark the ten-year anniversary of Hit Level launching Neko Atsume, the lovely kitty amassing sim that has change into a runaway success and primarily created a sub-genre of cozy pet-collecting life sim video games. Positive, the English model didn’t arrive till a couple of yr later, however nonetheless, the place does the time go? Anyway, a decade is a very long time to maintain a cellular recreation operating, particularly when it’s a recreation that the developer possible didn’t anticipate to take off the best way it did and didn’t anticipate having to take care of for years and years to come back. Due to this, and in celebration of the sport’s tenth anniversary, Hit-Level has announced {that a} sequel is within the works and set to launch this summer season. The sequel is known as… Neko Atsume 2! Who might have seen that coming?
It’s not clear if the summer season launch window additionally contains locations exterior of Japan, however given how well-liked the sequence is now I’d sort of assume they’d need to launch globally, however that’s simply my guess. There’s additionally some info on the newly-launched Neko Atsume portal website concerning the prevailing recreation. They point out that they are going to proceed updating the unique recreation to the very best of their capacity however that their focus will likely be on the sequel, because it appears like this new recreation will likely be designed from the bottom up with frequent content material updates and long-term help in thoughts. I look ahead to seeing how my kitty-collecting digital life will likely be enhanced when Neko Atsume 2 launches later this yr. Please look ahead to it too.