current version of animal crossing new horizons

Over time, more animal neighbours turn up to live the good life, and you accumulate DIY recipes for furniture, bridges and other things to make with wood, rocks and a lick of paint. The image of community we need right now. Your days are spent chasing bugs, chopping wood, arranging furniture and watering flowers, not scrounging for food/water/weapons and fighting people.

Your island is well provisioned with fruit, internet shopping and some company in the form of the aforementioned business raccoon and his two nephews, your island development guides.

Sign up for a getaway package with a notorious raccoon tycoon called Tom Nook and you are dropped on to an untouched paradise with a tent and a few tools to go about making it your home. This isn’t a high-pressure survival story. The absence of noise and urgency on my little island has made it a vital sanctuary, and it looks as if it will be greatly needed in the weeks and months to come. Now, though, it’s become an escape from … well, everything about the world’s current situation. When I first started playing it a couple of weeks ago, it was merely a welcome escape from tending to the ceaseless needs of my two small children. I f the coronavirus is making you feel like moving to a deserted island right now, I have some good news: Animal Crossing: New Horizons is out on Nintendo Switch in a few days and it lets you do exactly that (albeit virtually).

Current version of animal crossing new horizons