Animal Crossings: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us?

A moving, personal exploration of what we looked for, and found, in the gaming sensationAnimal Crossingduring and after the pandemi
Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20, 2020—just as a pandemic kept many from family, work, restaurants, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height, the game averaged one million copies sold per day, as players sought comfort, escape, and a virtual means of connection. In this book, game scholar Noah Wardrip-Fruin, isolated w...