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Animal Crossing New Horizons Guide: Perfect your island paradise

Make Tom Nook and Isabelle proud

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Guide by James Billcliffe Guides Editor
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Praise the usurious tanuki, Tom Nook, for he has delivered you safe passage past the borders of your mundane life to an idyllic getaway in Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Nintendo Switch.

There’s much to learn as you potter from palm-covered island to sun-kissed atoll, so here is our recent collection of Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides, filled with current information that’s helpful for newbies and seasoned travellers alike.

With the release of the huge 2.0 update and Happy Home Paradise DLC, we've added a few new sections to the list of guides below to help you make sense of all the new features dropping with this next phase of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Away from the rush of everyday problems, gain fresh perspective as you fish, find fossils, and collect creepy-crawly critters on your way to the perfect island in the sun.

Once you’ve chosen a look you like and packed for your holiday, it’s time to take to the sky with Dodo Airlines and sign up for your first loan with Tom Nook. Soon enough, the whole cast from the ever-helpful Isabelle to the studious Blathers and fashionable Able Sisters join the party and pitch up a tent or two.

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