Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch is the ideal game during home isolation. With these apps you get even more out of your playing experience.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons apps
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Nintendo Switch, you come to live on an island where you perform one task after another in order to gain more and more control. You pick fruit, plant trees, catch fish, collect fossils and pay off your mortgage at Tom Nook.
This year, the game is more social than ever. It is for the first time possible to visit each other via the internet and to send gifts. Designs can also be exchanged. Various apps are available to improve the playing experience. Both an official Nintendo app and other options.
1. Nintendo Switch Online
The main app you can download is Nintendo’s own. The Nintendo Switch Online app has a separate section for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Once you’ve connected the app and the game (the app clearly explains how that works), you can do several things. For example, you can view your passport and see who is online.
To chat: Most importantly, the app allows chatting. If you tap the Chat button while gaming, you can type messages that your in-game doll will say. That’s a lot easier than typing with the game’s keyboard itself. If you tap ‘Dear Friends’, you can send a message to anyone online or talk to individual players. You don’t even have to start the game for that.
Scan designs: Players can share their own designs via QR code. With the Nintendo Switch Online app you scan these codes to import the designs to your game. You do this by tapping ‘Design’ and choosing ‘Scan QR code’.
2. ACNH Travel Guide
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there’s a lot to keep track of. For example, which fish and insects you still have to catch and in which months they appear and leave again. ACNH Travel Guide can help you with that. With this app you can see exactly which fish and insects can be found at the moment and how far you are with your total collection.
In addition, the app has information about all DIY recipes, the fruit, residents and events. Note that you have to pay for the app.
3. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp may be known as the Animal Crossing game for iPhones that you can play daily for some distraction, but nowhere near the big games. Still, it may be worth restarting the game. You must then link your Nintendo account.
In the My Nintendo page you will then find a code that you can hand in to the Nintendo Switch eShop for free items. Is it not quite clear to you yet? The full instructions you read here.
Please note: Do you only want the items and have you never played Pocket Camp? Then you have to play the tutorial first and get far enough until you can design your own campsite.
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