Hokko Life VS Temtem

Hokko Life || Trailer - HL is a life sim game about moving into a town, crafting furniture and structures like a bridge to expand areas of explorable land and decorating, farming, fishing, and collecting various insects, artifacts, fishes and what have you. It's a game very similar to Animal Crossing: New Horizons with a few differences that I think, really helps emphasize the gameplay that Animal Crossing... Source: over 1 year ago

Hokko Life || Trailer - HL is a life sim that's very similar to Animal Crossing. Although fishing may not be its biggest strong suit, the game is more focused on crafting and design element. This game used to be out for Early Access only on Steam, but it recently came out of EA and it's available on various consoles. Source: over 1 year ago

Hokko Life - This game is your closest bet to being something very similar to Animal Crossing, but have a focus on more crafting, and customization. Source: over 1 year ago

If you want a similarity, Hokko Life is the closest to AC:NH. Source: over 1 year ago

If you love ACNH, you might want to give Hokko Life a chance. It's a very similar game to AC, with a few differences. One of the strongest suits for HL is the fact that it's focused on crafting furniture, and you get to decorate not only your own home, but your villager's homes, and the village. It's a cheaper alternative, and it's just got out of Early Access when it was on Steam along with console port. Source: over 1 year ago

If you like Pokémon, you might want to give Temtem a try. It's very similar in play because you collect creatures and bring them to fight other players. This used to be a PC title, but recently ported to consoles. Source: over 1 year ago

Hi r/NintendoSwitch! We're a handful of members from the Crema team. After a couple of years of Early Access, our project, Temtem, an MMO monster-taming experience, is ready to launch worldwide tomorrow at last on Nintendo Switch! Source: over 1 year ago

Hi r/games! We're part of the Crema team. We've been working on Temtem, an MMO monster-taming experience, for some years now. It's leaving Early Access and launching tomorrow on Xbox SXS, Switch, and reaching 1.0 on PS5 and Steam. Source: over 1 year ago

Obviously it's not the Pokemon IP, but check out TemTem[1]. The world feels much more alive and they've implemented raids, PVP, and other MMO features. [1] https://crema.gg/games/temtem/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

As an aside, have you considered playing Temtem? It describes itself as a massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure. Even in its Early Access state, Temtem delivers a bunch of features listed here. Source: over 2 years ago