It also introduces several new features such as the ability to add pillars to housing interiors, new types of counter-tops, creating buildings such as schools and restaurants, and inviting the villagers present on your island to the resort archipelago. This set of paid DLC sees your character assisting the Paradise Planning resort in building and customizing the dream houses of their clients. The 'Happy Home Paradise' add-on was released on November 5, 2021, introducing gameplay from Happy Home Designer. This is also the first Animal Crossing game to receive continuous free content updates that add new features and events (The Welcome amiibo expansion was the only update New Leaf ever had in the west), akin to the post-launch support past Nintendo titles such as the Splatoon series featured. As players explore and gather resources to build tools and furniture, they slowly develop the island into the small town setting the series is known for, eventually even gaining the ability to shape the land as they see fit. While containing all the rural life sim elements of its predecessors, this game shifts focus from the 'moving into a new town' concept, and instead brings players to a newly-settled deserted island.

After skipping over the Wii U note owing to a combination of the system's commercial failure and the fact that the dev team had been busy working on Splatoon the series's presence on the system was relegated to the short-lived Animal Crossing Plaza app and the party game spin-off amiibo Festival, this installment for Nintendo Switch returns the mainline Animal Crossing games to home consoles. Animal Crossing: New Horizons ( Atsumare Dōbutsu no Mori) is the fifth installment of Nintendo's Animal Crossing series, released on March 20, 2020.

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