Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise

Expand your horizons with DLC and help create vacation homes for clients on resort islands. In Animal Crossing New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise, clients with different dream vacation requests will visit a…

91 5 November 2021

Simulator

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise is a simulator developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5, released 5 November 2021 on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

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What Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise is

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise is a simulator game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 5 and released in 2021. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Expand your horizons with DLC and help create vacation homes for clients on resort islands. In Animal Crossing New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise, clients with different dream vacation requests will visit a new resort area located in an archipelago, made up of several different islands, where the Paradise Planning team is located. You can talk to a client and find out the details of their requests for a vacation home, and then make their dreams happen!

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Animal Crossing series

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise is the 83rd of 85 entries we hold in the Animal Crossing series. It arrived 2 years after Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The next entry was Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete in 2024. Its critic score of 91 is 8 points above the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Mario Kart 8: DLC Pack Two at 96.

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How it was received

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 17 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise launched on 5 November 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Cheats and codes

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