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Updated Features
A number of welcome features make the game an absolute delight to play.
Brimming With Content
New Horizons is brimming with stuff to collect, plant, build and decorate.
Crafting Mechanics
Crafting mechanics add new depth and purpose in the Animal Crossing series.
Animal Crossing New Horizons provides the perfect escapist fantasy with new features and stunning visuals providing plenty of reasons to keep coming back again and again and again...
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Direct 9.4.2019 - Nintendo Switch
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch Trailer - Nintendo E3 2019
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gameplay - Nintendo Treehouse: Live | E3 2019
Animal Crossing: New Horizons revitalizes the series formula with a fully customizable island that players get to design from the tent up.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an expanded, polished, next-generation reboot of a classic Nintendo game that's full of surprises.
An impressive suite of improvements combine with a more clearly defined structure for Animal Crossing's finest outing to date.
Overall, playing New Horizons was well worth the wait. The game is relaxing, enjoyable, well thought out, and fantastic chilled out fun for all ages. Right now, we really need a distraction from the chaos around us, and this game has come at the perfect time. So relax, hop on that plane, and enjoy your new life on the beach, in the woods, or even by the river. The choice is yours.
Animal Crossing finally gets a sequel that moves the franchise forward, in a surprisingly timely release that is perfect for this year in terms of both its gameplay and its philosophy.
There continues to be nothing quite like Animal Crossing, and New Horizons proves that there's life in the old Nook yet.
A new challenge system reinvigorates the familiar core, providing a wonderful incentive to explore all of Animal Crossing's myriad activities. This cheerful life sim is the next best thing to an actual vacation
A creative Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan shares a clever in-game design that adds an unexpectedly realistic element to the life-sim game.
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One Animal Crossing: New Horizons mechanic may be fun for some, but it proves limiting for a lot of players, who hope to see it change in the future.
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An Animal Crossing: New Horizons player is sharing an unusual and interesting theory about aliens with the beloved life simulation game.
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New seasonal items are available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
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