TheFebruary 20 Nintendo Directgave fans their best look yet at the highly-anticipatedAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, and there is certainly a great deal to be excited about. From crafting to terraforming,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsabounds in brand new features for players to enjoy, while also keeping much of what is at the core of the series in tact. This includes a continued focus on an array of adorable animal villagers, and indeed there are going to be a ton of them inNew Horizons.
More specifically, it is now known thatAnimal Crossing: New Horizonswill have at least 383 villagers in it. This detail comes from Tom Nook himself, by way of the variousAnimal CrossingTwitter accounts, and the image that accompanies the tweet gives fans a peek at several old villagers that will be returning for the new game. This includes the likes of Goldie, Hamlet, and Rosie, and many more fan-favorite villagers are sure to be confirmed in the upcoming days.
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To note, it is difficult to say definitively that there will be exactly 383villagers inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsdue to the tweet’s reference to Nook’s Homes. For the uninitiated, Nook’s Homes is a shop that appeared inAnimal Crossing: New Leaf, and the indication that the 383 referenced villagers are “Nook’s Homes customers” may imply that they all appeared in that title from 2012. As such, it is possible that 383 is only a count of returning villagers, and brand new villagers may push that number even higher.
That said, even ifAnimal Crossing: New Horizonshas just 383 villagers at release, that would still exceed the number thatNew Leaflaunched with. While theWelcome amiiboupdate would eventually bumpAnimal Crossing: New Leaf’s villagercount up to 399, the game released with 333, and fans can thus rest assured thatNew Horizonswill have a more expansive foundation of villagers at launch.
It is also worth mentioning that even more villagers could be added to the new game afterAnimal Crossing: New Horizons’release datehas come and gone. Indeed, it has already been confirmed that the game will receive free post-launch event updates, and perhaps Nintendo’s plan for continued support ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsto include the introduction of cute new critters.
