Animal Crossing: New Horizons
| Animal Crossing: New Horizons | |
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| Developer(s) | Nintendo EPD |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Aya Kyogoku |
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| Artist(s) | Koji Takahashi |
| Writer(s) | Makoto Wada |
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| Series | Animal Crossing |
| Engine | LunchPack  |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo Switch |
| Release | March 20, 2020 |
| Genre(s) | Social simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Animal Crossing: New Horizons[a] is a 2020 life simulation game created and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the fifth main game in the Animal Crossing series. In New Horizons, the player controls a character who moves to a deserted island where many anthropomorphic animals live.
Animal Crossing New Horizons was very successful. It sold 31 million copies worldwide. It also broke the console game record for most digital units sold in a single month by selling five million copies. It became successful because of the stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]
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[change | change source]- ↑ Bundel, Ani (March 29, 2020). "'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' is the coronavirus distraction we needed". NBC News THINK. Archived from the original on March 30, 2020. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
