At the Tokyo Game Show 2025 the famous Chinese company HoYoverse announced another new project — Petit Planet. The game appears to be a cozy life simulator, reminding players of the Animal Crossing in style and atmosphere. The registration for the beta testing is already open, and anyone willing to participate can fill out the registration form on the official site.
Players start on their own personal planet, which they have to develop. Building houses, planting crops, and befriending the neighbors, they can create a unique, blooming world like no other. According to a new trailer, Petit Planet will feature cooking, crafting, farming, and fishing as core gameplay activities. The game also emphasizes social interaction, featuring a unique economy where players earn currency by trading and building relationships with various characters and cute creatures.
Unlike the recently announced Honkai: Nexus Anima, which is firmly rooted in the established Honkai universe, Petit Planet appears to be a standalone experience, entirely detached from the interconnected worlds of HoYoverse’s existing IPs. This suggests a deliberate creative departure for the developer, potentially aiming for a fresh start with a new, original idea.
However, given HoYoverse’s penchant for intricate world-building and subtle crossovers, it would be unwise to rule out the possibility of connections completely. As more details emerge, we can still expect to uncover subtle references, thematic echoes, or even deeper, more surprising narrative links to the developer’s other projects. The true nature of its place in the HoYoverse multiverse remains one of the title’s main secrets.
