Living in a village that has talking animals as its population, the user plays a human character that lives in this village along with the animals. Famous for its open-ended gameplay and real-time passage of time, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp retains both these important features, along with several others that have made the game so popular. Originally released for Nintendo devices such as the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS, Animal Crossing has now had 3 different spin-offs, including one for mobile, called Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. In times when a sense of calm is becoming more and more difficult to attain, playing a video game that transports you into another world, and allows you to exist in this world in real-time, communicating and interacting with characters, and building a home in this world, has helped a lot of people cope with the miseries of the pandemic. One of the primary reasons for the game’s popularity, many critics suggest, is because of how calming it can be to play Animal Crossing. A game that has seen a surge in popularity during the last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown that followed, Animal Crossing is Nintendo’s social simulation video game that was originally released in 2001 under the name Animal Forest, and then re-released in 2020 under the name Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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