Animal Crossing: New Heights

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Animal Crossing: New Heights, known in Japan as Animal Forest: New Heights (どうぶつの森：ニューハイツ) is a life simulation game for the Nintendo Surge, set in a town where the player is a person who lives among animals, humans and other creatures. It is a follow-up to the 2020 game Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. It's South Korean name was Animal Crossing: New Height (without the plural) (동물의 교차점 : 새로운 높이). It's Chinese name was Animal Transit: New Heights (动物过境：新高度/動物過境：新高度). During development, the working title was 'Animal Crossing 6'.
Many new features were added in this game, such as human villagers, unisex personalities and the ability to transmit game footage straight to YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, e.t.c.
==Online Play==
Animal Crossing: New Heights returns the online feature in the previous games in the series. Players can go to other towns, use chat, use voice chat and much more. A new in-built official Nookazon was added in this game, where it's the Ebay of Animal Crossing. Players can buy things, participate in auctions and make dirty deals, like the real Ebay.
==Release==
New Heights was released in Japan on November 23rd, 2025. It was released in North America on December 5th, 2025, in time for Christmas. Players in Europe had to wait until March 31st, 2026 for the European release. It was released with a free copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World inbuilt in the game, now in HD.
==Gameplay==
Following in the footsteps of the previous games, the player starts out as a human in a town (now a city) with no bells or miles. The player mortgage a small house from the local shopkeeper, the tanuki (or raccoon in the English version) Tom Nook. Paying off a loan results in a larger house. All the players that play (infinite save files!) build their own house.
Many players will want a bigger house, because decorating their house in their way, with furniture and other items, is one of the main features of the game. The player can collect fruit, fish, insects, paintings, fossils, furniture, music and so much more stuff that I can't put it all on this list. There are 1000s different pieces of furniture. Once the player has some furniture, taking it to their house is easy; the furniture becomes a leaf that fits in their pocket. They can also customize themselves by buying clothes, accessories, hats, or drawing patterns for new hats, shirts, gloves, t-shirts, shorts, pants, socks and shoes.
Outside the house, the player can make the animal neighbours friends or foes. Only lazy villagers will ask the players to do errands for them. Animals can also give the player their picture of themselves, with a unique quote on the back that is one's picture to keep, after they move away, which goes into a brand new 'Memories' category.
The player can also customize their town by planting trees and growing flowers (which, like in New Leaf, villagers grow flowers a lot). At the museum, the player can donate all fish, bugs, fossils and paintings.
Furthermore, if animals are not enough, the player can invite human friends to their town using the Nintendo Surge Online connection or Surge to Surge.
===New Features===
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*Human Villagers, and all the NPC animal villagers
*Unisex personalities
*Transmission of footage to YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, e.t.c.
*In-game Voice Chat
*Official Nookazon in-game
*Infinite save files
*Lazy villagers only ask for errands
*Memories category
*More enhanced graphics (excluding characters and items) 
*'Animal Orchestra' makes the music, replacing the music we've known and loved for years.
*Every asset has got itself remade. And the TV voices actually are people talking.
*A brand new city design, with different biomes and weather patterns, and even temperatures.
*30 villagers can now be moved in at once.
*A brand new 'Tools' category where all of your tools go.
*Cyrus will now customise all of your furniture, clothing, wallpaper and flooring in all of New Horizons' colour palette.
*If you don't know how to turn on rules, there's a new Online Save feature for you to revert back to a town before let's say, your trans-flowers were tread on, e.t.c.
*All of the festivals in all of the games are now back!
*Hide and Seek is now back, including new ones such as <town name> Tic Tac Toe (<town name> Naughts and Crosses in NOE)! You can also play these games with other people.
*Pocket Camp integration.
*More tree variety.
*Bushes now drop fruit!
===Changes===
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*The Public Works Project system has been changed so that unlike New Horizons, you unlock stuff quicker and more stuff each time.
*Now you choose where all the villagers go, so that your big plans aren't messed up and that a villager isn't 2 inches away from your home. (I know this was kinda implemented in New Horizons, but that wasn't all villagers. The first 2 chose where they put their houses on their own.)
*Also, you choose what the facilities look like on the exterior and interior, a bit like the home interior design in Happy Home Designer.
*All perspective camera system, with everything being able to be placed in all directions, even inside houses.
*A brand new online, with 12 players able to come in at once, all on the minimap, and your own rules of what you can and can't do. (Note: The game won't let anyone do anything they're not supposed to do in a city.)
*Everything can be crossbreeded now!
*Villagers follow the (real) paths, unlike in New Horizons.
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