Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a cozy, self-paced life sim game where players build up a thriving island community from scratch, make new friends with talking animals, and decorate their own home, as well as the island at large, all at their leisure. The game utilizes both real-time mechanics, as well as hemispheres and seasons to replicate the real world.
As the fifth main installment in Nintendo’s Animal Crossing franchise, New Horizons
was released worldwide on March 20, 2020, where it found massive commercial success during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In spite of the global stay-at-home orders and social distancing, players found connection amongst themselves by visiting each others’ islands and hanging out together, while the more reclusive of players simply enjoyed talking with their fellow animal residents as they create their personal island retreat.
Besides the social aspect of the game, players can express themselves through buying (with in-game currency) items from the game’s monolothic catalogue of furniture and clothing, build up a living museum by donating art, aquatic life, and insects found around the island, participate in an in-game analogue of the stock market, and even enjoy real-world seasonal events based on real-world holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and more.
Since its release, New Horizons has recieved free content updates, a paid DLC expansion, as well as a cross-generation compatible Nintendo Switch 2 edition physical release.
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