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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch console. It is the fifth core and eighth overall instalment in the Animal Crossing series. In New Horizons, the player assumes the role of a customised player character who moves to a desert island, after purchasing a holiday package from a tanuki character known as Tom Nook. Taking place in real-time the player can explore the island in a nonlinear fashion, gathering and crafting items, catching insects and fish, and developing the island into a community of anthropomorphic animals.

[dev]New Horizons released worldwide on in March 2020

The game received universal acclaim from reviewers. It is one of the best-selling games released on the Switch, and also the single fastest-selling, selling over 13 million copies in its first six weeks. This commercial success has largely been attributed to it being released during the COVID-19 pandemic, where it has been used as a form of escapism. New Horizons' popularity has attracted large online communities, and has been recognised by various organisations who have parodied and used the game as a substitution for real-life events during stay-at-home orders of the pandemic.