Animal Crossing: Wild World

Players move into a living, breathing world inside the Nintendo DS...and then invite their friends to visit from anywhere on earth. In Animal Crossing: Wild World, the sequel to the popular Nintendo GameCube…

75 23 November 2005

Simulator Business Open world Sandbox

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a simulator developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 23 November 2005 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Animal Crossing: Wild World is

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a simulator game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a 2005 social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was released in Japan in November 2005, in North America and Australia in December 2005, and in Europe in March 2006. It is the second installment in the Animal Crossing series, and the sequel to Animal Crossing on the GameCube.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Animal Crossing series

Animal Crossing: Wild World is the 62nd of 85 entries we hold in the Animal Crossing series. It arrived 2 years after Doubutsu no Mori e+: PR - Nindori. The next entry was Dòngwù Sēnlín in 2006. Its critic score of 75 is 8 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: Wild World holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 157 votes.

What it launched against

Animal Crossing: Wild World launched on 23 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.

Cheats and codes

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