Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is coming out on Wednesday
The next mobile game for Nintendo is Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, a mobile adaptation of the village life simulator Animal Crossing. It was announced just a month ago, and was given a release window of November 2017. It has now been announced that Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be available worldwide on November 22.
Announced via Twitter, there's no exact time for the release, so it could happen at any point during that day. The US Twitter account for Animal Crossing said the same release date, implying it won't be early in the morning for the UK stores. We'll update when we have an announcement on the exact time.
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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp itself is a mobile game where you play as the owner of a new camping site, improving it over time by interacting with its happy campers and completing quests for them. It's free to play, and focused on being played in real-time, with quests and items refreshing every few hours to encourage players to come back. You can, however, spend real money to speed things up.
Compared to the regular Animal Crossing series - which was typically on Nintendo consoles - this Animal Crossing game is perhaps best considered a spinoff, as the other games put you as a mayor (or helping out a mayor) of a small village. The other games were also paid titles, and so didn't have the same style of monetisation as this free-to-play title. It has, however, always been a game that takes place in real-time, with day and night cycles following those in real life.
The game has been available in Australia for the last few weeks, as what people have assumed is a test run prior to worldwide release, similarly to how Pokémon Go used Australia as a testing ground. It's unclear if any changes will be made to the current Australian version when it releases worldwide.
It's going to be available on iOS 10 (although not all phones that use iOS 10 are supported) and Android when it releases, through the official Apple App Store and the Google Play store. The Google Play store page is already up, and you can sign up to be notified of its release on there. It's likely that it will be released simultaneously for both platforms.
