Ya’ll. This October will mark the ten-year anniversary of Hit Level launching Neko Atsume, the cute kitty accumulating sim that has turn out 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 sport operating, particularly when it’s a sport that the developer probably didn’t count on to take off the way in which it did and didn’t anticipate having to keep up 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 time. The sequel is known as… Neko Atsume 2! Who may have seen that coming?
It’s not clear if the summer time launch window additionally consists of locations exterior of Japan, however given how widespread the collection is now I’d form of assume they’d wish 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 sport. They point out that they are going to proceed updating the unique sport to the most effective of their capacity however that their focus will likely be on the sequel, because it seems like this new sport will likely be designed from the bottom up with frequent content material updates and long-term assist in thoughts. I sit up for seeing how my kitty-collecting digital life will likely be enhanced when Neko Atsume 2 launches later this 12 months. Please sit up for it too.