Hello Kitty Island Adventure (affliate link) is a life simulation game which takes place on a vacation island inhabited by Sanrio characters. The game became available for PS5 in August 2025, and I loaned it from the library.
I didn't know any other of Sanrio characters besides Hello Kitty prior to playing
this game. But now I got to know them and fell in love with them,
especially Cinnamoroll and Keroppi.
This game is designed to be played every day for a very long time, and not much at a time. It is limited how much you can advance in the game daily. Hello Kitty Island Adventure isn't a sprint, it's a marathon. You need patience to play this.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a game aimed for children. At first I thought that there's isn't much to do, but I was wrong. It is a long game, it can take a year to play through.
Tips and tricks
In this blog post I have gathered some things I wish I knew when I started playing this game.
All the story progression revolves around advancing friendships, and that is done by giving gifts. By default you can gift a character three times a day. It is essential to give everyone the best possible gift.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Gift Guide
To get the most out of the game the progress in friendships is crucial. So I strongly recommend you to check out these gift guides.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure gift guide
3 heart gift guide in Google Doc
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Companion Guide
Once unlocked, keep a companion friend with you at all times, they will help you with their abilities.
When you give gifts keep Hello Kitty as your companion to gain extra friendship progress. Also keep her as your companion when you are making any food items to get extra ones.
When you have made best friend status with someone and gift them, keep Miss Melody with you to get extra items. Which characters' items you still need even after that? In my experience at least Chococat's and Kuromi's. When repairing cabins Miss Melody reduces the cost of strawberry crates, but only when opening new cabins.
Keep Chococat with you when you are crafting items to get extra ones.
Keep Keroppi as a companion when you are catching critters to slow them down and to make them less spooked.
Pochacco makes you move faster, so he makes collecting items take less time.
And late game, Big Challenge's vacuum ability makes looting items a lot easier.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Visitor Cabins
You should start decorating visitors cabins as soon as you can. I waited too long before I realized I should be doing that. It can be confusing which items every visitor requires in their cabin. Once again wiki is your best friend (pun intended).
How to put clothes on visitor cabins? I had problems with that. First you have to craft a mannequin and place that in the cabin. Then you can put clothing items on the mannequin.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure Critters
Keroppi became my favorite character, but I hated his Best friend quest. A supposed critter friend wants to make furniture out of them?! How cruel and unethical, and makes zero sense. Of course critters want to spend an eternity suffering as furniture.
How to get iron in Hello Kitty
At one point in the game I absolutely ran out of iron. The best way to grind iron is Gem match mini game. It's located right next to Dance hall in Gemstone town. When you match a pair you might get iron. I got 90 iron in minutes.
South Park vs. Hello Kitty
In 2006 a South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" featured a game named Hello Kitty Island Adventure. At that time that game did not exist. In 2023 the game became a reality. Choosing this name for their game earned a lot of points from South Park fans for Sanrio.
I must admit that as an adult I enjoyed Disney Dreamlight Valley more than adventures on Hello Kitty's vacation island.
