Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Build an island home by gathering materials, crafting furniture and getting to know animal neighbors, then extend your decorating projects outdoors and reshape the surrounding terrain.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.2 / 10
About this game
Your island becomes a home through everyday projects. Collect materials, learn DIY recipes and take them to a workbench to make tools and furniture. Arrange furnishings indoors or outside, and choose where animal neighbors live. Decorating reaches beyond a single room: the island's terrain can also be reshaped to support your plans. Fishing and catching creatures provide another thread to follow between building projects. What you can find changes with the season and time of day, so a collection develops across different visits rather than through one fixed set of encounters. You can alternate between seeking a particular creature and working on a corner of the island, giving your material gathering a concrete destination.
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Category: Occasion
Collected in series
Animal Crossing is a life-simulation series about making a home among animal neighbors. Chatting, fishing, catching bugs and arranging furniture turn small daily discoveries into a place that feels increasingly your own.
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AI review
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Island life for players who enjoy making their own collecting and decorating plans.
Recipes turn gathered materials into furnishings, and outdoor placement connects individual objects to a larger island layout. Seasonal catches can give later visits a fresh purpose if you enjoy building a collection gradually.
Strengths
- Indoor and outdoor decoration can give even a small crafting project a visible place in the island.
- Terrain shaping lets layout-minded players carry a design beyond furniture placement.
Weaknesses
- Changing creature availability can clash with a preference for completing every collection immediately.
Who it is for: Players interested in furnishing a home, arranging a neighborhood and collecting creatures across different visits.
Play notes: For same-system multiplayer in TV or tabletop mode, each participating player needs a controller.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Creature availability changes across seasons and times of day, making collecting better suited to recurring visits than a single completion push. | Reviewed | 9.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Choosing what to craft and where to place it can reward players who enjoy setting a concrete project for themselves. | Reviewed | 8.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Choosing residents' home locations alongside your own decorations can help the island feel like a neighborhood you have arranged. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The controller-per-player requirement makes shared-system play a matter of preparing inputs for everyone, rather than assuming one controller can serve the group. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release date
- Mar 20, 2020
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- www.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 1
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Simulation · Primary genre
- Tags
- Collection-richGatheringLong-term ProgressionSolo-friendlyRelaxingCozyConstruction
- Supported game languages
- FrenchJapaneseSpanishSimplified ChineseGermanEnglish
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- ESRB: E
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMar 20, 2020
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideJan 15, 2026
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com