Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Developer(s)	Nintendo EPD
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Aya Kyogoku
Producer(s)	Hisashi Nogami; Katsuya Eguchi;
Programmer(s)	Yoshitaka Takeshita; Hiromichi Miyake;
Artist(s)	Koji Takahashi
Writer(s)	Makoto Wada
Composer(s)	Yasuaki Iwata; Yumi Takahashi; Shinobu Nagat; Sayako Doi; Masato Ohashi;
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]

Notes

↑ Known in Japan as Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori (Japanese: あつまれどうぶつの森, lit. Animal Forest: Gather)

References

↑ 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.

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[1] Known in Japan as Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori (Japanese: あつまれどうぶつの森, lit. Animal Forest: Gather)

[2] 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.

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