Four years ago Genshin Impact successfully beat the 'Breath of the Wild clone' allegations and with its viral popularity made gacha games mainstream for western PC gamers where they'd never been popularized before. Now, Infinity Nikki has a similar opportunity at success: beating the 'Genshin clone' allegations and popularizing dress up games on PC where they've never previously hit mainstream. Infinity Nikki is set up to strike a very hot iron while everyone is completely primed to get into another dress up game.
Infinity Nikki is the newest game in a series of dress up fashion gacha games that were previously mobile only. My colleague and Nikki series fan Mollie Taylor jokingly boiled it down to " dress up Genshin Impact " when she got to play it at Gamescom this summer. After playing at least 15 hours of it in the past week—it might be more like 20 but I lost count—I can concur.
Except I lost interest in Genshin Impact about 10 hours in and I'm still playing Infinity Nikki until Infold Games rips this test account out of my fashion-obsessed fingers. A passion for fashion Infinity Nikki is an open-world adventure in which a young stylist gets Narnia'd into a place called Miraland with a thing called the "Heart of Infinity" that was implanted in her chest by a goddess who looks like she fell out of a Dark Souls game. After her audience with Ena the Curator and vague direction to seek out the "miracle outfits," Nikki lands in an idyllic grassy countryside outside a town c.