Animal Crossing: New Horizons
A life sim about shaping your own island, collecting creatures, and living with animal neighbors.
2020
Switch
PC #23 · Xbox One #52 · Switch #28 · Series X|S #77 · 2016 · E10+
Stardew Valley
A farming sim about restoring a rundown farm and settling into a small town.
ConcernedApe · 50–100 hrs
Difficulty
A farm sim where the Community Center bundles, friendship recipes, and a greenhouse full of Ancient Fruit are the campaign. Skull Cavern is the mid-game; Qi's Walnut Room is the end.
Tips
- Start here
Salmonberries are free energy
Forage before you buy salads. Salmonberry season (spring 15–18) is enough energy to water the whole farm. Parsnips, then potatoes, then kale; don't plant a full field of something you cannot water.
- Start here
Community Center over Joja
The CC bundles unlock minecarts, the greenhouse, and the bus. Joja is faster cash and less game. Spring rains are a free watering-can day; spend them in the mines.
- Advanced
Greenhouse is Ancient Fruit
Ancient Fruit in the greenhouse, kegs in a shed, casks in the cellar (third house upgrade) is the money loop. Iridium sprinklers from Skull Cavern bars beat watering by hand in year two.
- Advanced
Jade staircases on Sunday
Crystalariums on jade, traded to the Desert Trader on Sundays, become staircases. Spicy eel plus a dessert and a staircase stack is how you reach Skull Cavern chest floors without fighting every infested floor.
- Secrets
Grandpa's statue at 93 points
A four-candle evaluation (12 or more of the 21 points) at the start of year three gives the Statue of Perfection, which drips iridium. Secret Woods hardwood, the Night Market in winter, and the movie theater after CC completion are the other systems people walk past.
- Secrets
Qi's Walnut Room at 100 walnuts
Ginger Island's walnut door is the real endgame quest board. Perfection (the Golden Clock, the spare Walnut Room quests, the cooking/crafting lists) is a checklist, not a surprise.
- Builds
Keg sheds, not jar sheds
Ancient Fruit wine out-earns jelly. Fill a deluxe barn with pigs for truffles if you want a second money machine that doesn't wait on keg timers. Junimo huts only after the greenhouse is already running.
Walkthrough
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Text guides
- Getting StartedWalkthrough · Stardew Valley Wiki
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On the web
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Summoned prints
Makers already conjured these. Five of the most-downloaded models tied to this game, from Printables and Thangs.
