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If you’re looking for games like Animal Crossing, we have you covered. Below is a list of the best games like Animal Crossing to play on Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox and PlayStation.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a cosy game about recruiting cute animal villagers to stay on your island. You can customise your island and shape it how you like whilst earning bells to pay back the notorious loaner, Tom Nook.

If you love Animal Crossing and you’re looking for a cosy title, life-sim or a game where you can farm the day away, then see our list of the best games like Animal Crossing below.

Best Games Like Animal Crossing

16 – Hokko Life

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Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Right away you’ll notice the similarities between Hokko Life and Animal Crossing. Just like in Animal Crossing, you play Hokko Life as a human while all of the NPCs are animals.

The resemblance doesn’t stop there though. You spend your time in Hokko Life progressively expanding and renovating the town of Hokko. You’ll have full creative freedom in Hokko Life as you customise buildings, furniture, and clothing to your liking. Hokko Life and Animal Crossing residents share the same hobbies too, as you can fish, hunt bugs, and craft across both titles.

One could argue that Hokko Life is even more casual than Animal Crossing because Hokko Life isn’t based on real-time. You won’t find cockroaches scurrying across your floors and angry neighbours in the streets if you neglect to play the game for a month or two. The cute and cosy Hokko Life will induce that Animal Crossing feeling in an instant.

15 – My Time At Portia

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Pathea Games

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS

Sharing the general theme of Animal Crossing and many other titles on this list, My Time At Portia involves starting a new life in a brand-new space.

In My Time At Portia, you take over your Pa’s neglected workshop in hopes of restoring it to its former glory. In the process, you’ll fulfil commissions, grow crops, raise animals, and join a community of vibrant townspeople.

Like Animal Crossing, a lot of your time in My Time At Portia is spent gathering resources and combining them with recipes to create items. As you play, you’ll gain better tools and in return, access to more in-depth recipes. And eventually, the ability to transform the town itself.

Wrapping up the package with an Animal Crossing-like art style, My Time At Portia is sure to charm.

• And if My Time At Portia interests you, check out My Time At Sandrock, the sequel to My Time At Portia, currently in early access on PC only.

14 – Harvestella

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Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch

If you’ve ever wanted to see the combination of Final Fantasy and Animal Crossing, then Harvestella is definitely the closest you will get. Combining cosy life-sim elements with your traditional JRPG stories and combat, you’ll be spending as much time building up your farm as you do fighting deadly enemies that threaten your humble town.

If you’re going to settle down and live out your Animal Crossing farming fantasy in this game, then you’re going to need to work hard to build a rapport with the people in the town who have taken you in following your unexplained bout of amnesia.

With seasonal considerations (including a deadly fifth season that can decimate your crops if you’re not careful), Harvestella will have you doing your best to protect your precious farm and have a cosy time with some drama sprinkled in.

13 – Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town

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Platforms: PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch

Inspired by the Harvest Moon series (which in itself is another game like Animal Crossing) Pioneers of Olive Town is one of the more recent instalments of the Story of Seasons series.

In this entry, you are fleeing a life of mundanity in the big city to thrive in rural seclusion – sound familiar? You’ll be building up the farm your grandfather has left, trading with residents and gradually cementing yourself as a pillar of the community.

Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town feels like it combines the best of Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon to create an assured farming sim that will have you relaxing in no time.

12 – The Sims

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Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One

The Sims and Animal Crossing both belong under the video game subgenre of social/life simulations. You begin The Sims by creating your virtual people called “Sims”. From there, their life lies in your hands. 

Like in Animal Crossing, there are no real defined goals in The Sims. You place your Sims in a home (which you can design yourself) and help them to fulfil their needs and desires.

The Sims and Animal Crossing are rarities in today’s age, as neither game features combat of any sort. Just sit back, relax, and navigate the life of your Sims.

If you’re looking for a game like Animal Crossing where you can destress after a long day by roleplaying a second life, The Sims might be your calling.

11 – Terraria

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Re-Logic

Platforms: PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita, Android, iOS

Terraria is a 2D sandbox game revolving around exploration, building, crafting, combat, survival, and mining. 

Terraria worlds are procedurally generated, like the islands in Animal Crossing. And when you first enter the world, an NPC called The Guide will greet you and walk you through getting started, just as Tom Nook does in Animal Crossing. As you progress through Terraria, you’ll meet dozens of NPCs that provide various services.

If you can deal with the emphasis on combat and boss battles, Terraria’s pure depth offers an experience reminiscent of Animal Crossing.

10 – Sun Haven

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Platform: PC

Sun Haven follows a mediaeval fantasy theme where you as the player are a new arrival in a thriving trade town conveniently named Sun Haven.

As is the case in Animal Crossing, you can be anything you want to be in Sun Haven. Whether you want to cook, farm, or fish, your skills will grow as you pursue your craft.

Those that love decorating and designing their Animal Crossing islands will adore Sun Haven. In Sun Haven, you can decorate to your heart’s content with over 100 unique pieces of furniture.

If you have an itch for the animal part of Animal Crossing, Sun Haven can certainly scratch that for you. Sun Haven features tons of different races, including, Humans, Demons, Elves, Angels, Elementals, Naga, and Amari, an animal race that consists of cats, dogs, fish, birds, and reptiles. Each race can be befriended and romanced.

A trip to Sun Haven will no doubt remind you of Animal Crossing.

• Have dreams of managing a flourishing farm? Here’s a list of the best farming games to get you started.

9 – Cozy Grove

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Platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4/5, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, iOS

As you open Cozy Grove, you’ll quickly find yourself in familiar circumstances: Stuck on an island, trying to make the best of it. Trying to decorate it for both form and function. Talking animals and ghosts pay you a visit from time to time. It’s quite like the haunted version of your Animal Crossing: New Horizons islands.

While your island may not be haunted in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (unless you’ve chosen to decorate it that way), you’ll be developing your Cozy Grove island in much the same way. You gradually build your way up from fighting to survive, to a fully realised homestead.

As you explore the dense forests for new materials and meet strange animals and beings along the way, it’s hard not to reminisce about the anthropomorphic villagers that you’ve been collecting to join you on your Animal Crossing islands

• If you like small, spooky adventures, check out our review of Decarnation.

8 – Littlewood

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Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch

If the social aspect of Animal Crossing is what drives you, Littlewood may be worth looking into.

If you want someone to move into your town in Littlewood, you’ll need to convince them. And once they are there, you’ll need to fulfil their various requests to keep them happy. With satisfied townsfolk, you’ll gain access to all sorts of new amenities like a Tavern, Lumber Mill, Fishing Hut, and Magical Library.

Activities galore exist in Littlewood. You can explore, craft, fish, bug hunt, farm, harvest, mine, cook, and woodcut, to name a few.

Littlewood is a peaceful, relaxing alternative for when you need a break from Animal Crossing.

7 – Core Keeper

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Platform: PC

Core Keeper is self-described as a “mining sandbox adventure”. You and up to seven friends enter a mysterious cavern and have to mine, build, fight, craft, and farm to survive.

Unlike Animal Crossing, a large focus of Core Keeper is on combat and boss fights. However, there are plenty of non-combat activities to participate in if you so wish. When you create a character, you have the option of choosing a Background. If you’re more of a pacifist, you can have a friend be the fighter while you opt for a Background as a Chef or Fisherman.

Early in your Core Keeper career, you’ll want to build a base of operations. As you progress in the game, NPCs will appear. If you build a quaint room for them in your house, they’ll move in with you and offer different services.

While a little more intense than Animal Crossing, the gameplay loop of Core Keeper is sure to hook you.

6 – Spiritfarer

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Thunder Lotus Games

Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac Linux

While Spiritfarer may not outwardly seem like a game similar to Animal Crossing, its mechanics, resource management and overall cosiness suggests otherwise.

You play as Stella, a ferry master who is tasked with ferrying spirits to their afterlife. She is the titular Spiritfarer, and you must build up her boat and commune with spirits to help them on their way.

As you farm, build, harvest materials and cook, you’ll soon find yourself slipping into familiarity, as you navigate the seas. Think of your boat as your own personal Animal Crossing island that will take you anywhere you desire.

5 – Kynseed

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Platform: PC

Kynseed is a sandbox life sim with a little bit of everything. Created by the same developers that worked on the Fable series, the spiritual similarities are clear.

Kynseed lets you decide where to take your journey. You can run a business, go adventuring, build a farm, or work on your social skills. 

Many of the activities in Kynseed require that you engage in mini-games. When you cook, you’ll lay out tomatoes on a cutting board and physically chop them with a knife. While blacksmithing, you’ll need to press your keys/buttons at just the right time to forge a pristine sword. 

Kynseed will force some action on you, but it’s turn-based, so you can take all the time you need in between the combat. You won’t need quick reflexes to succeed in Kynseed.

Don’t let the 2D pixel art dissuade you because, at its core, Kynseed builds off the foundations of what makes Animal Crossing so popular.

4 – Stardew Valley

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Platform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation Vita, Android, iOS

In Stardew Valley, you take on the role of a character that’s fed up with life as a cog in the wheel and decides to take over their deceased grandpa’s farm out in a place called Stardew Valley. This is sorta how Animal Crossing: New Horizons starts. Your character just needs a break from it all, so you purchase a getaway package to a deserted island with Tom Nook.

One of the cores of Stardew Valley is farming, but the game is entirely open-ended. If you don’t want to farm, you don’t have to! There’s so much to do in Stardew Valley, including fishing, cooking, crafting, and exploring. You could spend your entire day socialising and building relationships with the townspeople if you’d like, just like in Animal Crossing.

Stardew Valley also features many seasonal events as Animal Crossing does. The seasons change as you play and each season is highlighted by special Festival events.

Designed, developed, and published by Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone alone, Stardew Valley will suck you in just like Animal Crossing once did.

3 – Coral Island

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Stairway Games

Platform: PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch & PlayStation TBA

Scheduled to release in the latter half of 2022, Coral Island looks to be a true successor to Animal Crossing.

Coral Island drops you into an enchanting world to live off the land and form relationships with a diverse roster of over 50 townsfolk.

Coral Island prides itself on being a laid-back, chill experience where you can be who you want. Coral Island is the perfect escape from reality, just like Animal Crossing.

2 – Disney Dreamlight Valley

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Platforms: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch,PS4, PS5,Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

If you want a game like Animal Crossing which allows house and character customisation and lovable animal companions, then Disney Dreamlight Valley is a great option.

In the game, you explore the mystery of ‘The Forgetting’ a mass of night thorns which are taking over the Magical Kingdom and causing iconic Disney characters to lose their memories.

In the game, you become friends with various beloved Disney icons and get your own house which you can customise with Disney-themed furniture.

The game is constantly being updated with new themes and Disney worlds like The Lion King and Toy Story realms. The game also has farming mechanics and character customisation if you wish to live out your Disney fantasy.

What is the best game like Animal Crossing?

1 – Ooblets

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Platforms: Xbox One, Nintendo Switch & PC

Ooblets is a wacky creature collecting game where you take part in dance battles to win creatures of various brightly coloured designs. If you love the animal villagers in Animal Crossing, the Ooblets may similarly appeal to you. 

The game also offers character customisation, gardening mechanics and whimsical storylines from curious townsfolk.

Ooblets has the same cosy feel as Animal Crossing and offers a similar gameplay loop of starting from nothing as you work your way up to house upgrades, unlocking new Ooblets and more.

That rounds off our list of the best games like Animal Crossing to play on Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PC and PlayStation. Animal Crossing is great for endless hours of entertainment, but if you want a fresh start in something similar, these games won’t disappoint.

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