HoYoverse's Animal Crossing rival Petit Planet is coming to Switch 2 in 2027

HoYoverse's cosy life simulation Petit Planet is heading to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027. If you have been waiting for a new game to fill the Animal Crossing-shaped gap in your routine, this is one to keep an eye on.

Gematsu reports that miHoYo will release a Switch 2 version of the free-to-play cosmic life simulation game. No exact release date has been given beyond the year.

Switch 2 goes first

Polygon says Switch 2 is the first console Petit Planet will be ported to, and it describes the game as an Animal Crossing clone. That framing is Polygon's own, but Push Square takes a similar view, writing that HoYoverse is "undoubtedly gunning for the Animal Crossing audience" with the title.

The reports describe it as free to play, but none of them say how it will make money or what a Switch 2 version might include.

A break from HoYoverse's PlayStation habit

The platform choice is what stands out. Push Square points out that the Chinese developer has brought practically all of its releases to Sony's system since Genshin Impact, the huge open-world RPG that launched in 2020, at the peak of the pandemic. Petit Planet puts Nintendo's console first.

That doesn't mean a PlayStation 5 version is ruled out. The reports describe Switch 2 as the first console for the game, and none of them say whether other consoles will follow or when. For now, Nintendo is the only console platform named.

What we know and what we don't

Here is the short version of what the reports cover:

• Developer: HoYoverse (Gematsu uses the name miHoYo).
• Genre: a cosy, free-to-play cosmic life simulation.
• Console debut: Nintendo Switch 2.
• Timing: 2027, with no more specific date reported.
• PS5: not announced.

The reports don't go into how the game plays, what its cosmic setting involves, or how it will be monetised. Those details will matter for anyone deciding whether it can really stand next to Nintendo's own life sim.

Even so, Push Square calls the choice noteworthy given HoYoverse's history with Sony's platform. No further details have been announced yet.