Animal Crossing (franchise)

Animal Crossing (どうぶつの森 Dōbutsu no Mori, Animal Forest in Japan and Korea) is a community simulation video game series developed and published by Nintendo, in which the human player lives in a village inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, carrying out various activities including fishing, bug catching, fossil hunting, etc. Two new spin-off games, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, were released for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U respectively in 2015.

The series was continued on the Nintendo Switch with Animal Crossing: New Horizons in 2020. New Horizons follows the traditional Animal Crossing format, and uses much of the same amiibo as Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Animal Crossing is notable for pioneering the amiibo card format which enabled its massive cast to each have individual amiibo representation.