Game: Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Tea Garden DLC
Genre: Simulation, Adventure, Lifestyle
System: Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 (Also on Steam (Windows), PlayStation and Apple Arcade)
Developer | Publisher: Sunblink
Age Rating: US Everyone | EU 3+
Price: US $9.99 | UK £9.99 | EU € 9,99
Release Date: August 6th, 2026
Review code used, with many thanks to Forty Seven PR.
When I reviewed Hello Kitty Island Adventure back in January 2025, I gave it a ‘two thumbs up’ rating, and I am still visiting Friendship Island to this day, checking out the new events and activities.
Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Tea Garden DLC is the third paid expansion to the game (although it’s free to Apple Arcade subscribers). It promises a handful of new quests, lots of outfits and décor, and a couple of new food stations. Let’s find out whether it’s high society, or a bit of a lowlight!
Regency Dress and Afternoon Tea
If you are new to Hello Kitty Island Adventure, you’ll need to wait until you’ve completed the quest ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ before you can access the main part of the Tea Garden DLC.
However, as long as you have My Melody’s furniture shop, Hello Kitty will reward you with some Regency-styled clothing and enough dye pouches to be able to customise your outfits in your preferred colourway. As well as receiving over 2,000 pieces of furniture from 60 different styles, including flooring, wallpaper, tables, chairs, fences, arches, hedges and flowerpots. There are plenty of items to create wonderful cabins, and once in the tea garden, you can buy more if needed.
Setting aside the historical inaccuracy that afternoon tea was served in the Regency period (afternoon tea is a later Victorian introduction), the Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Tea Garden DLC is full of typical Hello Kitty charm and a playful homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from the outset.
As I’d already met the prerequisites needed to unlock the Tea Garden DLC, I could meet Hello Kitty at the specified location straight away. There, she explains how to use the two new food stations: the teapot station, a tea trolley where you’ll be able to create delightful brews using foraged items and flowers from around Friendship Island; and the tray station, to create sandwiches and scones fit for a three-tiered stand. There are 38 recipes to discover, four of which are linked to the previous DLCs. If you don’t have the previous additional content, you’ll never be able to complete the Tea Garden collection, which I found disappointing.
Tea Garden Ball
Once fully versed in the art of tea making, Cinnamoroll arrives to hand out invitations to the Tea Garden Ball. However, it soon becomes clear that Hello Kitty hasn’t organised the event, so who has? Completing quests for your Hello Kitty friends, My Melody, Pochacco and Kuromi will get you closer to uncovering the truth, but you’ll have to wait for the next real-world day before you’ll find out who is responsible and take part in the ball.
There are another nine quests available, involving various Friendship Island friends and visitors, although the visitors will have to be permanent residents to activate the quest. Some of these quests are locked behind real-world day progression, so this extends the time it takes to play the Tea Garden DLC even if you have all the residents. Each quest gives a new outfit for the participating residents, and you get the chance to enjoy some Hello Kitty cuteness.
Apart from finding out who organised the Tea Garden Ball, I thoroughly enjoyed the Tea Garden Teacup hunt. This quest is to locate 25 teacups scattered across the five main areas of Friendship Island, although I wish there had been more to find as it took less than an hour to collect them!
Progression in the Tea Garden DLC
One of my concerns about any DLC is the scope of additional content. Unlike the Hello Kitty Island Adventure – City Town DLC, the Tea Garden DLC does not introduce any new characters or a new location, since the tea garden is set within an existing area. The quests leading up to and including the Tea Garden Ball took around an hour, albeit spread over two real-world days, but apart from the teacup hunt, the other quests only take around ten minutes each to complete.
Gameplay
The controls for Tea Garden DLC are the same as for the base game – they are straightforward and on-screen prompts appear if required. One improvement over the base game is that the animations for the two new food stations are so quick that you do not get the chance to use the B button to skip them.
For the majority of the time, I was playing the Switch version on the docked Switch console, and I didn’t encounter any issues other than the occasional frame-rate drop, which happens in the base game as well.
Conclusion
I am enjoying the Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Tea Garden DLC, but it doesn’t have the same “wow” factor that the previous DLC had. With no new location to explore and only a handful of quests, there isn’t a huge amount of additional content.
However, if you enjoy decorating and changing costumes, the Hello Kitty Island Adventure – Tea Garden DLC will delight and charm you with its Regency elegance and afternoon tea grandeur!
Final Verdict: I Like it 
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