Ya’ll. This October will mark the ten-year anniversary of Hit Level launching Neko Atsume, the lovable kitty gathering sim that has grow to be 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 12 months later, however nonetheless, the place does the time go? Anyway, a decade is a very long time to maintain a cellular recreation working, particularly when it’s a recreation that the developer probably didn’t anticipate to take off the way in which it did and didn’t anticipate having to take care of for years and years to return. Due to this, and in celebration of the sport’s tenth anniversary, Hit-Level has introduced {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 consists of locations outdoors of Japan, however given how fashionable the sequence is now I’d form of assume they’d need to launch globally, however that’s simply my guess. There’s additionally some data on the newly-launched Neko Atsume portal web site concerning the prevailing recreation. They point out that they may proceed updating the unique recreation to one of the best of their means however that their focus will likely be on the sequel, because it feels like this new recreation will likely be designed from the bottom up with frequent content material updates and long-term assist in thoughts. I stay up for seeing how my kitty-collecting digital life will likely be enhanced when Neko Atsume 2 launches later this 12 months. Please stay up for it too.