Discover the Best Alternatives to Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you’ve caught all the fish, bugs and sea creatures and collected all your fossils, then like me you may be on the look out for a new social simulation game like Animal Crossing New Horizons. discover new lands, NPCs to befriend and catalogues to shop from and decorate your home and environment in these top recommended alternatives to Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Castaway Paradise
Developer Image: Stolen Couch Games
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €12.99
Castaway Paradise is a sandbox simulation where you can farm, fish, catch bugs and chat to the villagers to make your own ideal tropical island, designed exactly how you like it. Travel through 4 different seasons and experience special events and holidays like Christmas and Halloween, while helping your villagers with quests. With 7 different editional theme packs you can customise and decorate your island with themed items and create your own paradise.
Hokko Life
Developer Image: Wonderscope
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €19.99
Take over the old workshop and use crafted materials to create, design and decorate everything in your new town. With a great amount of creative freedom, you can combine any materials you find to create unique furniture designs and use flowers and mixed paints to make designs your villagers will love. Chop, dig and mine your resources and you can even take part in seasonal activities and weekly creator challenges.
Ooblets
Developer Image: Glumberland
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox
Cost: €28.99
In this relaxing town life, farming and creature creation game you explore the strange lands and collect Ooblets seeds that you can grow and train on your farm to collect all their variations and challenge in dance battles! Each ooblet has its own unlockable movesets to help in your battles to manage the villager’s disagreements. There’s also plenty of townsfolk to befriend and complete tasks for, as well as run your own shop, selling items you’ve grown and crafted.
Dinkum
Developer Image: James Bendon
Available on: Steam,
Cost: €16.79
Dinkum is currently an Early Access game where you can explore deserts, forests and billabongs in the Australian Outback building your new home out in the bush. You can build your town from scratch, beginning in a tent to a full town with shops, farms and attractions to draw in visitors, who may want to stay in your town too if they like it enough. You can craft items and organise your town however you like, and the happier your townsfolk are the more likely thry are to stay, grow their families and set up their own stores with unique items. You can also still fish and hunt for bugs as well as decorate your home and build your farm of wombats!
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Developer Image: Gameloft
Available on: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Playstation
Cost: €39.99 DLC €29.99 or FREE on Xbox Gamepass (extra cost for DLC)
Disney have taken on their own space in the life and farming simulation market with Disney Dreamlight Valley, with an unrivalled selling point - you’re villagers are Disney characters! Unlock the mysteries of the “Forgetting” and help characters come out of their realms to live alongside you as you complete tasks, farm, cook, fish and help restore Dreamlight Valley to it’s former greatness. There’s a good mix of Disney themed items and outfits to unlock themed by your favourite Disney films and characters. What’s more, the game is still in development with more realms and characters to be added, so keep an eye out for your favourite!
