Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons 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  copies worldwide as of September 2025. 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. In 2024, music from the game was added to the Nintendo Music app.

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