Random: Geez, PS5 Recreation ‘Anime Life Sim’ Certain Seems to be Acquainted

This yr marks 5 years because the final mainline Animal Crossing sport launched. Animal Crossing: New Horizons got here out on the good time and made a completely large splash worldwide. However with its fifth anniversary quick approaching, we’re positive plenty of followers are champing on the bit for a brand new sport.

So, should you have been looking the PlayStation Retailer over the weekend and thought you noticed an Animal Crossing gamer, no, your eyes weren’t taking part in methods on you. As our pals over at Good Vibes Gaming have identified, there is a sport that appears an terrible lot like Animal Crossing on there.

Anime Life Sim, which is outwardly launching in February 2026, is not even making an attempt to cover the similarities it shares with Nintendo’s standard life sim sequence. It guarantees to allow you to “Create your good anime life” by constructing “your dream dwelling” befriending animals, and happening adventures. You may go fishing, accumulate fossils, catch bugs, plant flowers, and craft objects. You may even run your individual store and organise city occasions.

Okay, so there are some variations there — in spite of everything, Animal Crossing did not invent the life sim style. However we’re not speaking about gameplay, for essentially the most half; one look on the screenshots ought to inform you all the things you should know.

The grass texture and character eye shapes take a heck of a whole lot of notes from Animal Crossing, as do a number of the animal residents. The wolf, bear, and moose villagers are extremely evocative of their AC equivalents — even when the moose has large antlers. How does it match via the doorways?

However, as GVG highlights, there are different purple flags in a couple of of the screenshots. Specifically, a number of the photographs and characters appear like they’re AI-generated.

Take the picture on the left, beneath — on the fitting it appears like there is a grill or an oven, however there are issues on the “equipment” that completely don’t line up with our thought of an oven. The desk within the background, too, can be utterly misshapen, with chairs and wooden that overlap each other.

Then, the picture on the fitting — we do not know what that’s on the shelf on the fitting, however essentially the most obvious factor to note is the character’s eyes. They’re utterly totally different shapes.

Writer and developer Maksym Vysochanskyy buying and selling as IndieGames3000 (yep, that is the identify) has a little bit of a popularity for this sort of “asset flipping”. Just some months in the past, a Monster Hunter clone popped up on the PlayStation retailer. And should you seek for them on PS Offers, you will spot different gems like TCG Card Store Supervisor, Anime Women Army Strike, and Metropolis Bus Driving Simulator.

Actually, we recognised a couple of of the video games within the checklist above, and it simply so occurs that a couple of of them are additionally on the Change eShop, albeit below totally different writer names.

Rainbow Ascend: Anime Women Go Up is printed by BurleaGamesStudio. World Battle II Metropolis Rebirth Tycoon and Cyberpunk Pace Murderer are each accessible because of Tashlik. And SimulaMaker has introduced us delights similar to Pet Clinic Simulator and the aforementioned Anime Women Army Strike.

We’re solely scratching the floor right here — Restaurant Tycoon Simulator makes use of totally different thumbnails however the screenshots are an identical between the PSN web page and the eShop one, for instance. The sheer variety of them remains to be stunning to us.

We’re positive Anime Life Sim will not make its projected 2026 launch date — that Monster Hunter clone was pulled from PSN, in spite of everything, and different examples similar to that Final of Us copycat and the Unpacking clone have all been taken down. However, as a warning, simply watch out on the market people.

Thanks once more to Good Vibes Gaming for bringing this to our consideration!