Petit Planet's delightfully cosy galactic take on Animal Crossing is the closest we'll ever get to the life sim on PC

I had a lot of one-hour appointments at Gamescom, but none of them had time escaping from me quite like my 60 minutes with Petit Planet. It's Hoyoverse's attempt to tap into the Animal Crossing demographic, and by that I mean the developer has essentially taken Nintendo's cosy life sim and shot it up into space.

I was honestly flabbergasted at how brazen the whole thing was. From the text boxes, to the character animations, to the little audio jingles that accompany them—near enough everything (bar its cosmic setting) screams Animal Crossing. But you know what? I kinda loved it.

Like I mentioned, Petit Planet transports the cosy vibes traditionally reserved for land and sea and instead puts them...