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It’s weird to come to the City Town DLC expansion in the PC version of Hello Kitty Island Adventure after, well, already going through so much of it and its updates. This is the addition that previously appeared on iOS devices and Macs due to the Apple Arcade exclusivity arrangement. It’s everywhere now! It’s still a good time! Most importantly, I feel like it’s better that it did appear after the Wheatflour Wonderland add-on on other platforms because I think City Town is the more impressive Hello Kitty Island Adventure expansion.
It doesn’t take too much time in the main campaign to unlock City Town in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, which is a bonus, though you do need access to certain folks to make that happen. For example, you do need to finish the tools quests that unlock the fishing rod, snorkel, and ziplines. The most time-consuming part is getting Badtz-Maru, Chococat, Cinnamoroll, Keroppi, and Kuromi all up to level 7 friendship first, since all of them are involved with the Ship Shape quest that makes the boat spawn to go to City Town in the first place.
What I like about the City Town questline is that it feels like every step of it unlocks something new to do in an area that ends up being huge and feeling distinct. Like while the original area in Hello Kitty Island Adventure does feel like a vacation region with lots of biomes and Wheatflour Wonderland is more fantastical and dreamlike, City Town is a more modern, urban, and even “realistic” place to live and explore. Want to run a cafe and engage in that sort of simulation? Get Usahana to level three friendship to start “A Whole New Menu” and open the Imagination Cafe. Want to head into Sewers? There is the “Above and Below” quest for that. Like if you already own the trowel, you can start off on a questline that involves Flower Plots and Sunburst flowers opening up.
It also feels like it gives the existing Sanrio characters in Hello Kitty Island Adventure something more to do, which makes City Town itself feel more alive. As you go through the quests here and unlock more things, different characters get their own little shops and places to be. Keroppi brings up the garden in the flower-unlocking part. The custom Avatar Palette options, which is great for personalizing our characters, comes up once Kuromi’s Boutique opens with “Magic Makeover.” Badtz-maru’s Arcade’s games might not feature the most exciting minigames ever, but I appreciate the aesthetic and that it is even there. And, given the established characterization of each of these folks in the main game, the new City Town roles fit in with their love of nature, magic, and geeky things.
Not to mention Imagination Cafe element makes Hello Kitty Island Adventure into a cafe management simulation. At the restaurant’s computer, you can order ingredients and furniture, customize the exterior, and ioen and close the cafe. Customers (Sanrio characters) will come in and make requests. You then use the Chef’s Station crafting bench to fulfill orders. This involves also selecting keywords that meet requirements placed by the people who come in, like making something taste creamy or tropical. This nets you City Coins, as well as lets you level that business up for more furniture, questlines, and customization elements. It feeds back into the main campaign in a pleasant way.
I also feel like this is a great way to handle a City Town Hello Kitty Island Adventure general release for another reason. It’s quite complete. I’m not going to spoil one part of it that’s a totally new element to it. But everything is here, immediately, and with the finale. The Apple Arcade release meant a more staggered release. We gradually got to see additions, new features, and more elements appear as the game itself grew. But on other platforms, it is all here, at once, and the result of everything piling up makes it feel bigger and more momentous.
City Town is an enormous undertaking in Hello Kitty Island Adventure, and it’s felt like a valuable addition and expansion since its 2025 debut Apple Arcade debut. The update we’re seeing now that’s available everywhere feels even more striking and important because of how much there is to this add-on. It is a huge chunk of DLC with a lot of quests, characters, and activities tied to it. It being completely and 100% done by the time it rolled out on consoles and PC helps it feel more worth exploring at this point too. It’s an entertaining extra experience, and I’m glad more people are going to see it.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is available on the Switch, Switch 2, PS5, PC, and Apple devices via Apple Arcade, and the City Town DLC will appear on consoles and PCs on April 16, 2026.