A Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream player has recreated Onett, the starting town from the 1995 Super Nintendo classic Earthbound, within the life-simulation game, drawing praise online for its faithful and creative execution. The build, shared by Reddit user u/sokas98 in the r/earthbound community, showcases how far players can push the game's island-creation tools when devoted to a single, detailed vision rather than open-ended experimentation.

The recreation translates Earthbound's 2D pixel art into a 3D "pop-up book" style island, including details such as red delivery trucks, the arcade where the character Frank appears, Ness's dog King, and Professor Andonuts' Sky Runner. Sokas98 said achieving the result took considerable patience, and confirmed they plan to keep developing the project and post further updates to the subreddit; commenters, including Polygon, praised the level of detail and suggested the creator would be well suited to art direction if Nintendo ever remade Earthbound.