Stardew Valley
A farming sim about restoring a rundown farm and settling into a small town.
2016
PCPS4Xbox One
Switch #02 · 2020 · E
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A life sim about shaping your own island, collecting creatures, and living with animal neighbors.
Nintendo EPD · Nintendo · 100+ hrs
Difficulty
A daily-reset island sim whose real systems are villager hunting, stalk market patterns, and a terraforming kit you only get after KK Slider. Time travel works; so does just checking the shops every morning.
Tips
- Start here
Nook Miles for the first plots
Spend Miles on mystery-island tickets until the first three villagers after your starters are ones you can live with. Moving a villager later costs time and a campsite roll you don't have on week one.
- Start here
Three-star, then KK, then terraform
Isabelle's three-star rating unlocks KK Slider's Saturday concert, which unlocks the terraforming app. Don't flatten the island before you have that app or you will rebuild the same river with a shovel.
- Advanced
Stalk market is a pattern, not a gamble
Buy turnips from Daisy Mae on Sunday morning. If the price decreases Mon/Tue, you are often on a decreasing or small-spike pattern; a big spike usually shows a mid-week jump you sell into, not a Sunday hold.
- Advanced
Hot item and dropping trees
The cabinet Nook's Cranny flags as the hot item is a 2x sell. Plant money trees on glowing spots for 10k, not 99k, unless you can afford to lose the roll.
- Secrets
Redd's fakes have tells
Jolly Redd's fake art has consistent tells (the missing mother in 'serene painting', the lamp in 'academic painting'). Check the painting against a list before you spend the buy slot on a counterfeit.
- Secrets
Kicks, Label, and the cranny upgrade
Sell 200k through Nook's Cranny and wait 30 days for the upgrade. Kicks and Labelle visits are how you finish the clothing catalog that Nook Miles tickets will never complete on their own.
Walkthrough
Walkthroughs that already exist
Written guides and videos are listed separately. The first time a game is opened, the web is searched once. Later visits reuse that result. Six of each show here.
The first visit searches the web. Rate a result from 1 to 5 so the next person can skip the wait.
Text guides
- Animal Crossing: New HorizonsWiki · Nookipedia
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On the web
Tips and tricks guides
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The bench
Summoned prints
Makers already conjured these. Five of the most-downloaded models tied to this game, from Printables and Thangs.
