Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Gather materials, craft furnishings and shape your island home, with added mouse controls for indoor decorating and a microphone-powered megaphone for calling animal neighbors.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.2 / 10
About this game
Gather materials and DIY recipes, craft tools and furniture at a workbench, and build up your island through decorating projects. Furniture can go indoors or outdoors, animal neighbors need places for their homes, and terrain shaping lets you change the setting around them. Creature collecting adds a seasonal thread, with different catches appearing at different times of day. The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition includes this island life and adds specific ways to interact with it. Use the right Joy-Con 2 as a mouse to reposition indoor furniture, create Custom Designs or write bulletin-board messages. The in-game megaphone uses the console's built-in microphone to call residents by name, bringing an additional interaction into your visits around the island.
Collected in topics
Nintendo essentials
Explore Nintendo-published games through their different approaches to movement, discovery, competition, cooperation and imaginative worlds.
Gentle escapes
Slow down with gentle routines, creativity and discovery, finding pleasure in small goals and worlds that welcome a quieter pace.
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
AI reviews are subjective assessments, not player ratings. See each review for its evidence and limitations.Published date:
A fit for island designers who value hands-on arranging and ongoing collecting.
Crafting gives decoration a material-gathering purpose, while terrain shaping lets a project extend beyond the house. The added mouse input may especially appeal to players who spend their visits adjusting rooms or drawing designs.
Strengths
- Crafting and outdoor placement can turn collected materials into visible personal projects.
- Mouse-supported decorating and design work offer a distinct interaction for players focused on customization.
Weaknesses
- Season-dependent catches may frustrate players who want to finish a collection in a single stretch.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy furnishing spaces, planning an island layout and returning for different creatures.
Play notes: Mouse support covers indoor decorating, Custom Designs and bulletin-board writing; it should not be assumed to replace controls throughout island exploration.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Seasonal and time-dependent creatures give returning visits a different collecting focus, but make immediate completion a poor expectation. | Reviewed | 9.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Linking recipes and materials to furniture placement can make gathering feel purposeful when you already have a room or island project in mind. | Reviewed | 8.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Furnishings and reshaped terrain can make the island reflect your own choices, particularly if personalizing a place matters more to you than following a fixed route. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The right Joy-Con 2 mouse support may suit detailed indoor arranging; the megaphone adds microphone input without establishing its recognition accuracy. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Nintendo
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Release date
- Jan 15, 2026
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch 2
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- www.nintendo.com
- Offline minimum players
- 1
- Offline maximum players
- 8
- Online minimum players
- 1
- Online maximum players
- 12
- Categories
- Simulation · Primary genre
- Tags
- CozyGatheringLong-term ProgressionLocal Co-opConstructionRelaxingThird PersonCollection-richLife SimulationOnline Co-op
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- ESRB: Everyone
- Play modes
- Local multiplayerMultiplayerSingle playerCo-opNot provided
- Perspectives
- Top-down
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMar 20, 2020
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideJan 15, 2026
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com