Adventure · September 27, 2022

Hokko Life (2022)

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Hokko Life is a cosy, creativity filled community sim game. Step off the train into the town of Hokko and get settled into your new home! This quiet village needs your help to turn it into the charming rural town everyone loves. With hammer and paints in hand it's up to you to design, build and decorate homes for all of your new friends! Busy yourself away in the dusty old workshop and let your creativity flow! Craft materials and combine them in whatever way you desire to create new and wonderful furniture and items for your town. Collect flowers, mix paints and use them to design wallpapers, flooring and even clothing! Will you design an urban-industrial furniture collection or maybe a bright flowery wallpaper set? With all of the workshop at your disposal, you'll have complete freedom to design a town your villagers will absolutely love. Want to share your charming creations with other players? Then upload it to the Hokko Community Store, allowing you to share items, peruse showfloors and download other players' creations with the sharing of a simple code. Join the weekly challenge themes and enter for your chance to be featured! 📐 Design & Paint 🎨 Head into the workshop to put your own spin on items in the game. Use the design table to build your own furniture, combining different shapes and materials in a simple but powerful editor. Get out those brushes and throw some colour down. You can paint furniture, wallpaper, flooring and even clothes! Make your village truly your own. 🏠 Build & Decorate 📦 Enlist the help of the resident builder and start expanding the town. Place buildings wherever you like and get them ready for new villagers to move in. Customize the interior and exterior of any home, choose designs and place furniture to make a home your new friends will love. Tire of the layout of your village, want to spice things up? Then move your houses and buildings at any time, for free! 🎣 Icthyology & Entomology 🦋 Looking for something to do? Then spend a quiet morning at the various fishing spots around the world of Hokko and build your fishing collection. Fish have unique habits, and require different craftable bait, so you'll need to vary your approach from one fishing spot to the next. Then, spend the lazy afternoon in Hokko with a net in hand, catching and collecting the critters fluttering and scuttling about the town! You'll find a whole range of insects for you to catch and build your collection! 🪓 Extra Curricular Activities ⛏️ Looking for something extra to do? Introduce yourself to Hokko’s townsfolk offer a warm welcome, and with varying personalities, they all make for fantastic friends! or push out on resource gathering expeditions as you chop, dig, mine resources to fuel your creative endeavours! and don't forget to take part in the myriad seasonal events, weekly creator challenges and more!

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91 Adventure titles launched in 2022 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Life Sim · 274
  • Farming Sim · 273
  • Casual · 260
  • Simulation · 259
  • Farming · 240
  • Adventure · 230
  • Fishing · 226
  • Agriculture · 225
  • RPG · 222
  • Indie · 217
  • Cute · 216
  • Cozy · 216
  • Wholesome · 206
  • Relaxing · 204
  • Building · 204

Peer Adventure titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.6k Steam reviewsTop 82% in Adventure
Positive rating67% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 95%
Metacritic54/100Genre average 77 — top 98% of Adventure titles
Engagement hours4 h averageTop 71% for session depth among Adventure

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Russian
  • Traditional Chinese
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Japanese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

67%Mixed · 2.6k reviews

1.7k positive · 848 negative

Metacritic

54/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

1.8k

Release & Availability

Release dateSep 27, 2022
DeveloperGizmo Garden
PublisherTeam17
Base price$3.99 -80%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

4h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

2h

Typical completion time

Achievements

31

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

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