Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, it's up to you to build a fun campsite for you and your friends to enjoy. Tents, hammocks, fireplaces, a stuffed-animal sofa... mix and match to your heart's content! Make a…

78 25 October 2017

What Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is a simulator game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development and released in 2017. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Android and iOS. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is a 2017 free-to-play social simulation mobile game developed and published by Nintendo for iOS and Android devices. An installment in the Animal Crossing series, it was released in Australia in October 2017 and worldwide the following month. The game allows players to interact with a small campsite with various campers, performing small tasks, engaging in commerce, and decorating living spaces.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are kids and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Animal Crossing series

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is the 80th of 85 entries we hold in the Animal Crossing series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2018. Its critic score of 78 is 5 points below 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: Pocket Camp holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Players rate it 69, 9 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp launched on 25 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Official trailer