#Animal Crossing clone appeared on the PlayStation Retailer

Animal Crossing is, indisputably, one of many greatest life simulation recreation franchises on this planet, and it’s most up-to-date installment, New Horizons, turned a essential and business success again in 2020. Naturally, this recreation has impressed many different life sims, however one firm might have gone a bit too far…

Meet Anime Life Sim, a brand-new online game that just lately appeared within the PlayStation Retailer. You might have seen (as many followers already did) that it bears a hanging resemblance to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, bordering on plagiarism in response to some followers. In fact, huge recreation firms can’t technically copyright an artwork fashion, however Anime Life Sim’s cartoony characters, shiny colours, and top-down perspective look virtually similar to New Horizon‘s, and it undoubtedly lacks an id of its personal consequently. Most vital of all, why is it referred to as Anime Life Sim when it clearly doesn’t have an anime-like artwork fashion?

The sport’s official description provides us extra particulars concerning the recreation, and the weather it’s clearly taking from Animal Crossing turn into much more evident. Anime Life Sim will characteristic animal neighbors, a customizable residence, a residing group, and even every day actions like fishing, bug-catching, and fossil digging. Weirdly sufficient, the PS Retailer states that it’s going to come out on February 2026, which is surprisingly lengthy for a recreation like this one. Granted, this may very well be a mistake, and the writer might have really needed to set its launch date for February 2025 as an alternative.

Who’s the corporate liable for this apparent Animal Crossing clone?

The PlayStation Retailer lists Anime Life Sim‘s writer as “Maksym Vysochanskyy buying and selling as IndieGames3000”. So, once we check out each its official web site and different video games it has listed on Sony’s storefront, one factor instantly stands out: Quite a lot of strange-looking doubtlessly AI-generated photographs, which is unquestionably not a great search for it.

IndieGames3000 has fairly an notorious status amongst players. A number of customers on the Steam Neighborhood Boards have accused it of allegedly making low-quality cellular video games with loads of asset flipping, solely to later port them to residence consoles just like the PlayStation 5. Due to the corporate’s earlier works (coupled with the blatant look of the particular recreation), Animal Crossing followers on social media have already labeled Anime Life Sim as a “rip-off” and a “rip-off” that isn’t price paying for.

I perceive that, since Animal Crossing: New Horizons will not be accessible on any non-Nintendo consoles, PlayStation 5 customers might wish to play the same high-quality life simulation recreation on their console of selection. Nonetheless, I don’t suggest that you just strive Anime Life Sim when it comes out, primarily as a result of there are a lot of different strong life sims you’ll be able to strive in your PS5, just like the Disney-themed Disney Dreamlight Valley or the critically acclaimed Stardew Valley.